Ben Timber Falling

Raw Eggs, Iron, Grit

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

What an amazing and breathtaking photo…

Photo by Elle Lookbook…

[Jake @Le_Master]

It’s popular because it lets people think they’ve found a shortcut to the trivium without the burden of years of work in the actual trivium.

Why bother with Donatus/Priscian or Dionysius Thrax/Apollonius/Herodian, Porphyry/Aristotle, Cicero/Quintilian or Aphthonius/Hermogenes, when a modern 20th-century synthesis textbook is sitting there with “trivium” and “liberal arts” on the cover?

[Brian Kemple @realbriankemple]

I understand the popularity of this book but feel obliged to explain each issue on which it is most profoundly incorrect.

I will be taking no questions.

[Rust Belt Kid @rustbeltkid1]

1 year later, some ramblings on putting hogs on a tired old pasture

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Arguably the 50 most influential books in history.

Most of us spent 12+ years in school and were assigned almost none of them.

How many have you read?

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

In 2019 I bought $200 of used bricks on FB marketplace from an old man in Wilton, with my landscaper friend helping out with his trailer. The man had a big pile of stone on his property and my friend asked about it. He said we could have the stone if we could take them away.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

“A book must be interesting to the particular reader at that particular time. But there are tens of thousands of interesting books, and some of them are sealed to some men and some are sealed to others; and some stir the soul at some given point of a man’s life and yet convey no message at other times. The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be. He must not hypocritically pretend to like what he does not like. Yet at the same time he must avoid that most unpleasant of all the indications of puffed-up vanity which consists in treating mere individual, and perhaps unfortunate, idiosyncrasy as a matter of pride. I happen to be devoted to Macbeth, whereas I very seldom read Hamlet (though I like parts of it). Now I am humbly and sincerely conscious that this is a demerit in me and not in Hamlet; and yet it would not do me any good to pretend that I like Hamlet as much as Macbeth when, as a matter of fact, I don’t.”

- Teddy Roosevelt

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

The average student graduates after 12 years of schooling and still cannot answer the most important questions in life.

What is a good man?
What is justice?
What is worth sacrificing for?
What is beauty?
What is truth?
What is the purpose of life?

Classical education begins with the assumption that any education failing to address these questions is not really education at all.

[Ben Timber Falling @BenjaminHylen]

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[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

Probably a hundred.

Peasants Into Frenchmen. The Post Office Girl. I Served the King of England. Ada, or Ardor. An American Childhood. The Merchant of Prato. Tanizaki's collected tales. Nabokov's collected tales too ("Stories"). ...Italo's Italian tales!

https://t.co/v59kMfO3kj

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

If you think you see the world specially, see through every artifice and power structure, it doesn't matter if you're correct or not. Your reward for this knowledge is the reward for all knowledge, which is that you keel over and die.

You are rewarded for action, nothing else.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

You will be tempted to think your knowledge of the "broken system" is special and tempted to refuse individual solutions. Maybe you'll imagine the system being "fixed." These are foolish.

You become an adult when you start to play the hand you are dealt.

[Ben Timber Falling @BenjaminHylen]

@Serenitee_Sam @grok what can I add to this recipe to help lift dirt

[Ben Timber Falling @BenjaminHylen]

@LenaRomaMora @Serenitee_Sam Like what?

[Sovey @SoveyX]

The laundry industry figured out one of the greatest grifts in American retail: sell people a giant bottle that’s mostly water, perfume, and vibes.

Most detergent is designed to smell like “clean” before it actually needs to do much cleaning.

You can make your own with the parts that actually matter:

Washing soda: raises the pH and helps lift grease and grime.
Borax: softens hard water and keeps dirt from redepositing.
Castile soap: breaks surface tension and helps carry the dirt away.

For a 4-person household doing around 300 loads a year:

Commercial detergent: $150 to $180
DIY version: about $6

That’s $140+ saved by refusing to pay luxury prices for scented tap water.

Trust the chemistry, not the marketing. Reclaim your laundry room. 🇺🇸

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

The Coffeyville Weekly Journal, Kansas, May 11, 1894

[Ben Timber Falling @BenjaminHylen]

@HambrickScott That's hard work paying off right there. Our strawberries are just little bits of leaves right now here in West Michigan and the berries but distant dreams yet to come

[Ben Timber Falling @BenjaminHylen]

@ResilientGrower Gas just jumped up to $4.80 and diesel to 5.99 here in West Michigan just keeps going up. I'm doubling down on firewood splitting this year