David Murray

"Doing jobs Americans won't do."

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

She thought her baby didn’t make it, until a tiny movement changed everything.. 🥺

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

Where they remain. One, after all, has made a shield.

[Lie Sniper 🇺🇦❤️🇫🇮🇮🇱 @lie_sniper]

@TallbarFIN Finnish general Adolf Ehrnrooth visited England after WW II.
British general asked him how many Russian troops were stationed in Finland.
Ehrnrooth: “A few hundred thousand”
The British general: “Where in Finland?”   
Ehrnrooth: “Two meters underground around the border.”

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

With time, water becomes the stones underneath. With time, stones become the water that flows.
(As Norm Maclean said, "And a River Flows Through It."

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Snow falling on crystal clear Alaskan glacial melt water captured by photographer John Derting.

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

@talledcombs I was good with it and then I saw what look like struts to mount a plow. If so, too bad.

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

Worth a read; more than most things:

[County Highway @countyhwy]

One of our 250 Great American Things.

[Joshua Claybourn @JoshuaClaybourn]

On Sunday, my friend Gordon Wood was struck and killed in a car accident. Gordon taught history at Brown Univ. and was among the most accomplished historians America has produced. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, and his earlier book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 took the 1970 Bancroft Prize. He also received the National Humanities Medal.

He was, in my view, the finest historian of America's founding—which makes it all the sadder that he did not live to see the nation's 250th birthday. His reputation reached popular culture, too. Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting invokes him by name in the famous bar scene, accusing a Harvard student of simply "regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about [...] the pre-Revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization."

I feel fortunate to have collaborated with Gordon on several projects. In a 2019 anthology I compiled, he wrote an essay on the possibility of a shared American narrative. He centered his argument on equal rights as "the most radical and most powerful ideological force" the Revolution unleashed. "This powerful sense of equality is still alive and well in America," he wrote, "and despite all of its disturbing and unsettling consequences, it is what makes us one people."

When I needed jacket blurbs for my new book Lincoln's Compass, coming out this November, I turned to Gordon. The fit was natural: the book argues that Abraham Lincoln took the Declaration's claim that "all men are created equal" as his guiding moral compass—and that he refocused the nation on that claim. Gordon, ever the gentleman, offered generous praise.

He was, in many respects, the dean of American historians. He will be very hard to replace.

[Señor Editor Ed Combs @talledcombs]

Discuss.

[john jackson @pvtjokerus]

None of us will ever have the juice of an elk that can walk around with the hide of a mountain lion on his head.

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

@DaleStarkA10 Keep those Doggies rolling.

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

@openshutter21 The Yukon, which I have traveled in, is known as:
"The Land of Crow."
Crow/Raven, he is master here; does not leave her in the winter, but rather.... Impels the Spring.

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

Ah! I know the punchline to this anecdote:

"It's just that there is no point."

[Bertha madras @madras_bertha]

The FDA has not approved any form of botanical marijuana as a medicine. Low dose THC is approved but the operative term is “low dose”. 2.5 - 10 mg

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

@openshutter21 Terrific photo; I have walked the upper portion, scrambled the deep clefts, ridden the water. Each has it's own domain:

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Monet painted The Magpie when he was 28. No one knew him.

He had just become a father and was living in extreme poverty.

​He presented it at the Paris Salon and they laughed at him. They told him it was unfinished.

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

Indeed; you must earn it.

[Andreas Karch @karch_andreas]

Standards based grading: I teach you a set of skills and if you master every one of them you meet expectations. That’s a B. To get an A you have to exceed expectations by being able to apply these skills in a new context, a fairly rare thing to see.

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

Nice; but you have to have the books "to hand," before they can possibly be, "to mind." I stayed in his cabin one night in the Yukon; it was a good, solid cabin. He was real; the Gold Rush brought them all, in a rush.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

“I regard books in my library in much the same way that a sea captain regards the charts in his chart-room. It is manifestly impossible for a sea captain to carry in his head the memory of all the reefs, rocks, shoals, harbors, points, lighthouses, beacons, and buoys of all the coasts of all the world; and no sea captain ever endeavors to store his head with such a mass of knowledge. What he does is to know his way about in the chartroom, and when he picks up a new coast, he takes out the proper chart and has immediate access to all information about that new coast. So it should be with books. Just as the captain must have a well-equipped chart room, so the student and thinker must have a well-equipped library, and must know his way around that library.
I, for one, never can have too many books; nor can my books cover too many subjects. I may never read them all, but they are always there, and I never know what strange coast I am going to pick up at any time in sailing the world of knowledge.”

–Jack London

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

My friends and countrymen: Mister G's. Many and many an hour; best little family-run bar ever.

[X TWITR USER @bigleagues]

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS @USCGAcademy He could've said Mr G's sounds like a fun place, but instead he took a swipe at them.

Mr G's is a great little small town neighborhood bar & restaurant.

https://t.co/kG0ynZMGad

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Women earning 62% of all degrees.

Is this “equity”?

[David Murray @DavidMurrayd11]

@projectxlence @BitPaine Dude; didn't want to blow his cover, but he and I ran into each other, as teammates on a play, and he scored. He was maybe 5'6"? Remarkable athlete, solid Man.