GRAHAM NOLAN 🇺🇸

Comic book writer/artist/publisher at COMPASS COMICS. Co-creator/designer of BANE. Inkpot Award recipient, and a man growing older but not up.

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What a great idea! https://t.co/9DIFQTPDnB
You might as well check out, Mike and Mysty’s adventures in THE GHOSTS OF MATECUMBE KEY while you’re at it.

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25% Off Sale ENDS TOMORROW !
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@FoxHolocron It’s not in my hat. The American flag grows out of my head!😂

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🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #america

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@JonMalin That’s all I’m missing!

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@Roadkill_Lurch @MarkWahhhid They will be available after fulfillment on the Compass Comics website.

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@Deiscorides As it should be.

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Happy birthday ‘Merica!

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@dickandcomix Crazy eyes.

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@leebrownnewc Thank you! It’s an awesome day for America.

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Don't forget to grab the Compass Comics books you are missing while they are on sale! https://t.co/9DIFQTPDnB

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@MakeArtGA I don’t have any tats. 🤣

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@JonMalin How did you like the ending?

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Spent a great day on Lake Erie yesterday. 88° with a nice breeze and huge ‘Sheep” biting. One of them I expected Jonah to jump out of his mouth!

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@JonMalin Great movie, but I didn’t believe for one minute Nicholson was from Boston.

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@DeebsFLA Can neither confirm nor deny.

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@dickandcomix An anvil.

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@thatstarwarsgrl Who is that dude?😊

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⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️Words of IRON!! Take a moment and read this.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Everyone seems convinced they are living through uniquely stressful times. They are, in fact, living through the most comfortable era in human history, and the gap between those two facts is quietly ruining them.

Look at what you actually woke up to. A warm bed, a roof that held, a tap that gave clean water without a three mile walk to a well, a fridge holding more calories than a medieval village saw in a week. No plague at the door, no army on the ridge, no steward come to take a third of your grain for a lord you never met. The chance that you or anyone you love dies this year of an infected cut is, by the standards of almost everyone who ever lived, a rounding error.

Now measure that against how you feel. Wired, braced, worn out by things that have not happened, a generation with heating and antibiotics and same-day delivery, privately certain it endures the hardest conditions anyone ever has.

The truth is less flattering, and facing it squarely is the whole point. Our ancestors carried far more stress than we do, and carried it better, and the reasons we cannot are worth naming plainly.

The first is diet. Most people run on a blood sugar rollercoaster and a low simmer of inflammation, so the nervous system is already jangling before a single real problem arrives.

The second is lifestyle. We have stripped every scrap of deliberate hardship from ordinary life, so the first genuine difficulty finds a body that has never once been asked to cope.

The third is the strangest. We have taken to adopting every disaster on earth as a personal emergency. A famine two continents away. A feud between strangers. An outrage you will have forgotten by Friday. You pour a finite store of nervous energy into all of it, then wonder why nothing is left for your own life, the small handful of things you could actually change.

The Stoics drew a tight circle around that handful: your judgements, your effort, your conduct. Everything outside it, which is very nearly everything, they treated as weather. Have opinions about weather if you like. Try to be personally responsible for it and you go straight under.

Here is the part they leave off the posters. All three causes are yours to reverse. You can eat the way people ate before any of this. You can put hardship back into your week on purpose. You can let the planet's misfortunes carry on without your sponsorship, because they always would have.

You were not born fragile. You were softened, slowly, by decades of comfort doing exactly what comfort does. Seeing that plainly is the first honest thing you can do. Owning it as yours to fix is the second, and the whole business starts turning the moment you stop waiting for someone else to start it.

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THE LANDING PARTY: PATRIOTIC MOVIE MONTH- "1776" (1972) https://t.co/Yxs1JzFR6T