Patrick Lafferty

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from”

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Men are biologically wired to notice women’s thighs, hips, and butt for a fascinating reason.

Dave Asprey explained it on Mari Llewellyn’s podcast: women store DHA (an essential omega-3) in those fatty tissues, the exact nutrient babies need for brain development.

That’s also why first children often have higher IQs, mothers pour their DHA and mineral reserves into the first baby. Subsequent kids get less.

He also shared how targeted supplements before, during, and after pregnancy helped his wife (who was diagnosed infertile with PCOS) have healthy kids at 39 and 42, no IVF, no drugs, and drastically lowered her risk of postpartum depression.

DHA makes up ~60% of the polyunsaturated fats in the brain and is vital for neuron growth, synaptic function, and visual development. Mothers transfer large amounts during pregnancy and breastfeeding, depleting their own stores, which is why strategic supplementation before and during pregnancy can reduce postpartum depression risk and support healthier babies.

It’s pretty amazing how evolution built these preferences with a clear biological purpose.

What’s one surprising nutrition or fertility fact you’ve learned that changed how you think about the body?

[Kyle Worley @kyleworley]

Eugene Peterson on how to find a church:

“Pick one and stay.”

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

@_BenRatliff Allow me to add to the gratitude for your service to us all.

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

It was the background music to my childhood thanks to my father.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Even if you’re not a fan of the old Big Band music, one can’t help but to admire the style and talent of the men in this video.

This is Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra in 1943. Truly amazing!

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

@CAHutch1990 #shotsfired

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Very cool. Point for college baseball.

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

@brothernelson say more

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Nicola’s just decided she knows what a man and a woman are, after all.

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

@brothernelson @mjaybennett @exile_here @fredgreco @Helopoulos @Nick_Batzig @SteveTiptonPCA I still have our copy of Charles Bridges. Time well spent. Surely, you are a pastor among pastors.

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

@presbycast say more

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

I have this on a t-shirt.

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

I have been told someone found my lecture persuasive until they spoke to a virologist who said: "lots of viruses have furin cleavage sites".

Repeat after me, slowly:

SARS-COV-2 IS THE ONLY SARBECOVIRUS EVER FOUND WITH A FURIN CLEAVAGE SITE.

OUT OF SEVERAL HUNDRED STRAINS.

[Art Gallery @X_ArtGallery]

After a disastrous performance in Chicago, Bill Murray decided he wanted to die.

He wandered through the city for hours until he entered the Art Institute of Chicago.

There, he stopped in front of a painting.

A young woman standing in a field at sunrise.

Murray later said he looked at her and thought:

Her life probably isn’t easy either.

But the sun is still rising.

And maybe life could go on for him too.

Can art save our lives?

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

@CAHutch1990 my man, eureka and kudos.

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

@brothernelson careful, pastor...are you fomenting a movement to influence votes?🤭

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

“The natural beauty wasn’t the cause of what I had felt, but rather an invitation to pay attention to what I felt”https://t.co/S4WJVDxQJ6

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

The way the first revised paragraph alone speaks of the grandeur of worship commends the whole effort as that pious advice I would gladly see adopted and embraced.

[Jared Nelson @brothernelson]

Most of the Directory for Worship should be pious advice. That’s the main function of a directory. But why do we talk down pious advice? I’d love to see us revise and adopt the Directory with updated wise counsel / pious advice and only a few biblical imperatives. #pcaga

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

Should Thomas Massie even be allowed to run? He’s not a citizen of Israel, he’s not funded by Israel, nor does he have a major donor who was in Epstein’s phone book.

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

Chef's kiss to the voice proving his point.

N.Y.U. Students Object to Speaker Who Calls Their Generation ‘Coddled’ https://t.co/ZSdap7tPhB

[Patrick Lafferty @pclafferty]

@thebasecreates Marilyn Simon nods. https://t.co/2RhOUhKA3p

[@amuse @amuse]

UFOs: Rubio finding out he’s going to be in charge of the Martians.