Dirkland Jay

Of clay and wattles made

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@BretVDB My wife was moved by that concept and made a beautiful pointillism painting by that title. But I don’t know where it is b/c I hang her work in the house and she takes it down and hides it

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@AlexRettie Yeah, I’m team heart!

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I’m on a baseball group text with five guys from church and now a dispute has broken out over whether it’s acceptable for a man to use the heart emoji

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My girls memorized psalm 23 this week and 3yo must have picked up on it cuz at bedtime he asked if he could lie down in green pastures. Kinda melted my heart

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But what did you eat for dinner?!

[Andrew Locking @andrewswalks]

Yesterday's walk from Devil's Bridge, Kirby Lonsdale, returning via the banks of the River Lune

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@remywilkins My dad always says the way to have everything you want is to want what you have. Drove me nuts as a kid but I really get it now

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@PolytropicSage Now that’s a review! Thanks for sharing it

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Time is what she’s indicating there

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

There are men who have been reciting lines and scenarios from episodes of Seinfeld for like thirty years now.

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@AlexRettie @NimrodJournal @BorisDralyuk Congrats! Poignant. I was afraid it was going to end up like Out, Out but you surprised me with that tender ending

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My wife grows my lettuce so I’m able to leave the house for long periods of time

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In the 1880s as the new sport took shape, someone tried to name ping-pong, “whiff-whaff”.

I bet even after everyone had been calling it ping-pong for years, he was still the guy at the party saying, “Who’s up for some whiff-whaff?”

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@stephenkamm That’s wonderful!! Have an absolute ball!

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@bmkoser I’m learning I come from an anti mayo family. Everyone has said both slices except the people related to me. Probably started with a frugal great grandma in Oklahoma

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Help with a marital debate plz

If you saw “1.5k”, how would you say it aloud?

1.5 thousand?
One and a half thousand?

After all my “friends” at church sided with my wife over whether to put mayo on one or two slices of bread when making a deli sandwich, I need this one

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@dpatsheehan I now have a new goal

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On prayer and magic:

“Not magic as a bending of existence to your will, but magic as the capacity for wonder and trust in a God that can do all.”

-Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild

Satisfying and annoying to see someone say so perfectly what I’ve been stammering about for yrs

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This whole discourse is so dumb. Everyone can just ask me how many books they should own and I will answer on a case by case basis

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Declaring myself all-time quarterback

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Looking back through a commonplace book, I’m reminded of the LPN taking my vitals who said plainly, “There’s so much static in the air these days. I’m having trouble reading people’s minds.”

I think fondly of her today. Out there trying to peer through the fog

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A Tim Robinson character at a literary salon