Jason Henrie

As if life had been made and not happened.

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.”
- Marcus Aurelius
#Meditations

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“And know as well that joy and grief
Are nothing more than empty smoke.”
#OnTheBookOfMarcus

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“…the war had come, bringing with it the latest and most refined technology for killing. It seemed so insane, and I realized that the war was like some sort of disease afflicting man.”
-E.B. Sledge
#WithTheOldBreed

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

https://t.co/BJhz4QhFxs

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

‘…when we had grasped hands for the last time and had said our last goodbye, he added this one more last word: “Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don’t know.”’
- W.H. Hudson
#FarAwayandLongAgo

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“So we can neither confirm nor can we deny…”
- Walt Lloyd
#TheTakingOfK129

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“If I had a child I would just go in at night and sit there. Quietly. I would listen to my child breathing.”
-Cormac McCarthy
#stellamaris

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“Perhaps his happiness was curiously unfounded. But cannot a man make himself as happy as he can in the strange long reaches of a life? …After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”
#TheSecretScripture

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“…I’ve always thought your history unnecessarily embittered. Suffering is part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice. Thank you for your friendship. In twenty years I dont recall a word of criticism and for this alone deep blessings be upon you.”
-CM

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“So the reservations that you yourself in your own world of struggle bring to the table may actually be alien to the path of these emerging structures. Their own intrinsic doubts are steering mechanisms while yours are more like brakes.”
-Cormac McCarthy
#ThePassenger

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“However colossal the quantities of men and matériel, the work at decisive points had been done by no more than a few handfuls of men.”
-Ernst Jünger
#stormofsteel

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

One does not simply become a master of karate. First, you must accidentally walk into a spider web.

[ThrowbackHoops @ThrowbackHoops]

Michael Jordan "Maybe It's My Fault" commercial 🔥 (2008)

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“Your real life is your thoughts.
Your thoughts are your own making.”
-B.C. Forbes

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“There comes a point in every man’s life where he can rail against the unfairness of the world until he loses, or he can do his best in it. Remain a victim, or become a survivor.”
-James Islington
#TheWilloftheMany

[Naval @naval]

Blame yourself for everything, and preserve your agency.

[Jason Henrie @OliveCaddis]

“Will they remember anything of these days? Will they hold in their hearts the love I have for them, or will it all pass way like all the things of childhood?”
-Sebastian Barry
#anniedunne

[Bob Carpenter @CarpLax]

I’ve always thought of Mike Powell as the most dynamic player of all time. No one could make elite defensemen look so clumsy. A recent deep dive has me putting Chazz Woodson’s MLL highlight reel a notch above MP’s infamous mix. Can anyone point to one better?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is what will matter 1000 years from now.

Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.

This guy reignited the Space Age.

He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.

This is history happening before you.

If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.

We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.

Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.

Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.

Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.

Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.

Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.

Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.

None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.

More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.

America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.

Because this changes everything.

All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.

All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.

Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.

But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.

You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.

But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.

If the puddlefish don't get in the way.

Don't be a puddlefish.

[Braves On FanDuel Sports Network @FanDuelSNBraves]

Take a bow, No. 54.