Greg Cello

A dad building something special for his family, his community, & the New England region he loves | Championing an American-made & rooted economy.

[Greg Cello @gregcello]

A little introduction for new and old followers alike:

First off, I’m no one special in the grand scheme of things, but I’d like to think I’m very special to my family, and I’ve designed my life off that presumption.

My name is Greg, and I live with my young, growing Catholic family of 6 in northwestern RI on our homestead, where we homeschool our kids and tend to our chickens, veggies and flowers (with more additions planned in the future).

I write for a Substack publication called Kinward and record a daily podcast called The Dissident Dad Show, while working on building a family business.

I believe in this idea called eternalist generationalism, where responsibility doesn’t end with my lifespan or my kids’ childhoods, because it reaches upward to God and eternity, and outward into the moral, spiritual, economic, and ecological world my descendants (and my neighbors’ descendants) will have to live in. If eternity is real, then I’m obligated to build a rightly ordered micro-civilization, not just carve out a private, comfortable life.

I think we’d all be a little better off if we focused on our local economies of land, people, and politics rather than getting worked up over national or global happenings. In fact, I think we’d be much happier overall.

I love New England and American wouldn’t live anywhere else. I have ancestry going back to the Mayflower, so you could say I’m a Mayflower American. I’ve also fought for this country, and so have five generations of men in my family. But you wouldn’t see my kids or me going abroad to fight in any wars right now; rather, if anything, you’ll see us fighting for our own local communities and people if it came to that.

I love nature and the American landscape; exploring it, being tethered to it. One of the greatest feelings is walking through the woods all day watching a bird dog run around looking for grouse and woodcock and the thrill that comes from shooting it when flushed. I think our lives would be more enriched if we conserved this natural world of ours as best as possible.

Finally, I think the nihilistic mind rot of our modern age has destroyed so much beauty that used to exist in our homes, architecture, landscaping, the way we dress and treat others, our faith in a higher being, our cooking and baking and how we even present it, and even how we just think, act, and converse with ourselves and each other.

We destroy nihilism through beauty.

The beauty found in family, faith, nature, traditions, our communities and parishes, and having the freedom to live this way without being oppressed by any governmental entity.

Thanks for following along.

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imagine if Christina said no? Or refused to let her practice using a knife or the stovetop due to “safety” at her “young” age?

you can apply this to manythings, such a firearms and power tools.

safety comes from exposure, practice, and trust. And the sooner the better.

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Madison makes lemonade freely now. I’ll just walk into the kitchen and see her busy at work slicing lemons, creating a simple syrup over the stovetop.

Trust and confidence in using fire and knife goes a long way. She’ll be smoking brisket in no time.

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really a direct result of this. Christina loves making lemonade in summer. Madison would watch, then started asking to help, then started taking over, now does independently on her own.

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a couple key principles shape my home education:

- let them help whenever they ask

- let them make as many mistakes as fast as possible

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@xwanyex love to hear this

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they’re continually subverting my gif game. First they took away my most used section, then they took away my most used.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

they ruined gif search. you know exactly the gif im looking for and you wont give it to me. fuck you.

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@LycanFerret probably the best ratio for truly crispy burgers

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anything higher than 80/20 ground beef is a crime against flavor, texture, and basic human dignity.

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@MDR227185150701 you’ll get there Mila

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@Intrepid_Edu amen to that

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@harvey_dude *of pounds, typo

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still blows my mind we throw away tens of millions of low quality wool annually in the US instead of turning it into something like insulation which is vastly superior to the fiberglass or spray foam varieties used today.

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@KJP an absolute MUST

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@RachelBTCsmith how driving used to me for us kids, and from it, we saw so much of the country

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so the bandstand on the New Boston town common is adorned with bunting. Is it fate or did they know I'd be looking?

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I randomly hop on Zillow to see if any old farms have come onto the market nearby. The app has clearly zeroed in on me with this tag.

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@longhunter09 I’ve woken Madison up super early to hike up a mountain and watch the sunrise with her.

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@simonsarris The obsession with health optimization has contributed to this. Health has become an end in itself rather than a means to living well.

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@shagbark_hick I’d book a room next door, just with ‘gansettes in hand.

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@RachelBTCsmith absolute patriots

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a culture of reading is restoration.

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@stevenamcqueen very strange, wonder why.

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a tale of two hydrangeas.

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small town with a bandstand on the common and a few brave young families might be all it takes to make this real again.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

A people, not an economic zone

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@seip_wolke was unaware, great tip, thank you

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we’re not letting go just yet.