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Kid had a nightmare last night…

Ethan had a nightmare last night. I wake up in the middle of the night to someone creeping in the room and standing at the foot of the bed. I asked “what’s wrong?”. He says “I had a nightmare” I say “get in” and he snuggles up between me and Marion and the dog and goes back to bed.

I immediately had the most vivid flashback of my own childhood.

I didn’t get nightmares very often, but I have had some that I still remembered to this day. And the feeling when you wake up… The nightmare doesn’t go away the second you wake up. It still feels as though it’s real. And I remember a distinct feeling of suffocation upon waking up that would last for a little while and make it difficult to fall back asleep. a feeling that would make me almost fearful to fall back asleep and have the nightmare again.

And then my mind starts spinning its wheels again with thoughts. as a kid, there is no greater feeling of security than your parents. Being in their bed, under their sheets, is like a magic cloak of protection. And then I started thinking of kids who, for whatever the reason, don’t have that good fortunate to even have a parent bed to crawl into.

Whether because of abuse. Having lost parents. Having parents who didn’t offer or provide that type of comfort. Which made me instantly depressed, at 3 o’clock in the morning.

And then I had the revelation that the cycle of life - whether it’s depressing or uplifting - is that as a child you have that source of comfort. Then, as an adolescent to adult you lose that comfort and learn to fend for yourself in the world.

Then you become that source of comfort to your children.

And then at some point in your life, if life progresses the way it should, you lose that source of comfort when your parents pass. and no matter how old you are, you are still a child to your parent, and they are still your mom and your dad, even if you are yourself a mom or dad. And then at some point, in the cycle of life is it progresses as it should, you pass and your children are where you were when you had that revelation.

And then I began getting nervous that I wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep. But after 15 or 20 minutes, I fell back asleep. Until my next cycle on being awakened to go to the bathroom! Lol.

Deep thoughts.

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Closing Argument: Birthright citizenship is deeply American, and wholly Constitutional.

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Questions for Bourbon with Barnes: Wednesday, September 24, 2025

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Massive, breaking news!

Legit massive, legit breaking.

The lawyer just confirmed that an interim stay has been issued, for the immediate future.

Ostriches are safe for a little while. I will forward the order as soon as I get it.

Update: now Native tribes are getting involved

This is the way. Make them live by their own rules.

A native tribe is now getting involved, saying that the ostriches are on unseeded land and that they are not to be touched.

We will see how this plays out

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The Barnes Brief: Daily Edition, Tuesday, September 16, 2025

I. INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day 

The quiet observation in the early morning hours as the community awakes from the night’s slumber and with some just returning home from a long evening, the thoughtful observer in this American realist portrait where we see the world through the eyes of the observer, turning the observer into both observer and observed, conduit and source, connection to the inner world of our own in observing the outer world with her. 

B. Wisdom of the Day

“Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to the near-sighted revolutionary the shortest distance between two points.” Leon Trotsky. 

C. Cultural Recommendation

Trans used to be known by its medical name: Gender Dysphoria. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44136345-childhood-gender-dysphoria?D. Appearances

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The Barnes Brief: Weekend Edition, Friday, September 12, 2025

I. INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

The brilliance of Banksy, the greatest public muralist alive, the pseudonym of the ubiquitous artist whose overnight artworks shape public conversation, sagely satirizing Britain’s judicially-sponsored censorship on the walls of the courthouse itself, whose state coverup only makes the point of the art that much more persuasive. 

B. Wisdom of the Day

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” Gandhi. 

C. Cultural Recommendation

The respectable members of the Klan, whose political permission slip from the powers-that-be animated the sick, violent fantasies of it’s psychotic members. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216152554-behind-the-mask-of-chivalry?

*Note: A reminder — links are NOT endorsements of the ideas contained therein. The Library is big, and it mostly consists of ideas I do not personally share.  

 

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The Barnes Brief: Daily, Thursday, September 11, 2025

I. INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

The famed painting of the painter who painted me before his time (or so the joke goes about his portrait of a patron saint of the arts that looks like a biographical portrait) depicting the horrors of politicized violence he witnessed first hand in the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. 

B. Wisdom of the Day

“I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories, and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened.” George Orwell, Spanish Civil War. 

C. Cultural Recommendation

Two brilliant books by Orwell, one capturing the insanity of the Spanish Civil War and its welcoming of politicized violence, as well as the nature of life for the impoverished in early industrial London & Paris. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7802296-homage-to-catalonia-down-and-out-in-paris-and-london?

 

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