🌟 What I'm Reading: 12-29-2024 🌟

A Weekly Roundup Highlight Reel of What I Have Been Reading

Dec 29, 2024

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF WHAT I'M READING

I post a weekly roundup of some of the highlights of what I’ve been reading… including many thoughtful, valuable, and intriguing perspectives that I could not otherwise post.

I hope that you find this list to be useful, inspiring, interesting, and informative!

Sending my love,
Demi 🌟

What I'm Reading: 12-29-2024

Altered

People who demand nothing of you (or, notes on charismatic people)

Cross-posted from Twitter…

9 months ago · 1595 likes · 44 comments · Carmen

Apollo's Lyre

The Death of an Airman

I just read a post in Caitlin’s Newsletter about the self-immolation of U.S. senior airman Aaron Bushnell…

a year ago · 32 likes · 21 comments · Apollo's Lyre

Cameron M. Bailey

Real Books

My whole life, I’ve loved bookstores…

4 months ago · 5 likes · 6 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Celestial New Year

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” -Psalm 19:1…

4 months ago · 55 likes · 19 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

A Christmas Broadcast

4 months ago · 6 likes · Chas Holloway

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Bogart's Trench Coat

4 months ago · 4 likes · Chas Holloway

Dad Explains

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4 months ago · 107 likes · 13 comments

Extra Muros

Adroit and Maladroit

The longer a word of French provenance spends in the English-speaking world, the greater the chances of its complete naturalization. Thus, Anglophones invariably pronounce the ‘t’ in ‘adroit’, a word which made its debut in 1617, in a (less than entirely flattering) description of the Roman emperor Caligula…

4 months ago · 6 likes · Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Freedom Scale

The Philosophy of Liberty

Hello All…

4 months ago · 35 likes · 30 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Yes, We Definitely Have Free Will

Why this book | Title Page | Table of Contents…

4 months ago · 14 likes · 4 comments · Christopher Cook

Harshbarger Mills by Joan Spilman

Big Pete, 1887-1929

His given name was Peter John Farley, but everyone called him Big Pete. He worked at the mill, loading hundred pound sacks of grain onto wagons or flat bed trucks. In the spring of ‘29, it was wet, then icy. Big Pete took off his coat and covered the sacks with his Macintosh. He was a big man, and heavily muscled. Laughed at the cold and pounded on his …

a year ago · 6 likes · Joan Spilman

Jenn’s Substack

Turnabouts

Art is essential to the happiness of my household. Therefore, as most of you know, I’ve managed to carve out a dedicated art time by holding an art class once a week with my kids. We all sit around the dining room table, put on classical music, and draw together. By necessity, it is a class of free wheeling, fast fun. With only an hour or so of inte…

4 months ago · 24 likes · 27 comments · Jenn

Josh Tatter Has Thoughts

The Camembert Conundrum

You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese…

a year ago · 40 likes · 27 comments · Josh Tatter

The Library of Celaeno

The Pilgrimage of The Magi

Sometimes, a very strange thing can become so familiar that its essential oddness eludes conscious apprehension. If you see the same homeless man ranting in a fentanyl haze every day on the way to work he eventually just becomes a part of the scenery, no matter how out of place he logically is. In fact, we he not to be present one day, that would be s…

4 months ago · 174 likes · 55 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno

Vivek Ramaswamy is Right

Vivek Ramaswamy, the swarthy Robin to Elon Musk’s Cape(town)d Crusader, has spent the last two days assisting his eccentric billionaire partner in stamping out a veritable Rogues’ Gallery of internet hoodlums, each doing his insane supervillain best to trick the public into destroying the American tech industry by forbidding the importation of some 430 …

4 months ago · 582 likes · 201 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

Lighthouse

Cindy Lou Who

"No matter how different a Who may appear, he will always be welcomed with holiday cheer." — Cindy Lou Who…

4 months ago · 50 likes · 42 comments · Deborah T. Hewitt

Lost in Folklore

Five weird Christmas myths: The naughty, the nice and the just plain nutso of festive folklore

Welcome to LOST IN FOLKLORE, where I take a lighthearted look at elements of folk stories, fairy tales, myths and monsters. If you’ve arrived here by accident and want to unsubscribe, please do. It helps make sure everyone on this quest wants to be here…

5 months ago · 49 likes · 10 comments · Nicola Mostyn

Matriarchal Blessing

The men who like women and the men who don't. Yes we can tell.

A few weeks ago Anne Helen Petersen wrote about what makes actor Glenn Powell so appealing and I have not been able to stop thinking about something she said…

8 months ago · 6289 likes · 892 comments · Celeste Davis

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Nurse Rhymes

bitter.

Over the river…

4 months ago · 26 likes · 20 comments · Nurse Kristin

On the Road of Bones

Censorship From All Sides

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4 months ago · 6 likes · The Bone Writer

On the Road of Bones

What I'm Watching (Christmas Edition)

Some of the videos I’ve been watching lately have to do with: Guns, Cars, Music, and the Tokyo Christmas Lights in 4K. So without further ado…

4 months ago · 6 likes · 5 comments · The Bone Writer

Red White and Black

The title didn’t suit the content of the post and now I’m changing it

This is my third post in a style that doesn’t suit me. I’m sorry to those who like me but cant dig what I’ve been writing. I understand and it’s alright. I’m likely to return to form and have writing…

4 months ago · 12 likes · 5 comments · Darian:Δ

Reina’s Substack

Alchemical Blessings

Here I sit, inside a cold RV on December 25th also known as Christmas Day. I have my phone for communications, tho I've had many already today my voice has barely been used. When I awoke today, the propane heater had emptied sometime during the nite, so it was actually colder inside the RV than outside. When I stepped outside to switch the tanks, the ba…

4 months ago · 11 likes · 5 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Reina’s Substack

Type II= Control Freak??!!??

Around halfway thru to the end of October, I started noticing some physical aspects of my body & how well it was or more importantly “wasn't” functioning. By the beginning of November I couldn't keep denying to myself what the issue was. I was running on the downward pitch of that ugly ass diabetes mountainside & picking up speed…

4 months ago · 15 likes · 9 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

River’s Ramblings

The "Awakening" Psy-Op

A real awakening in humanity would shake the world. We’re not seeing that. We’re seeing maybe a tiny, paltry few people resisting globalist agendas, but the belief in “authority” is still alive and well…

4 months ago · 5 likes · River Laurie

Rushkoff

Corleone-Style Diplomacy

I don’t usually use this space for politics — not really since I began worrying about the lure of Obama in 2007, and how his branding may have been more powerful than his commitment to the issues I cared about. I saw Occupy Wall Street, direct action, bottom-up mutual aid as more accessible ave…

4 months ago · 63 likes · 2 comments · Douglas Rushkoff

Scott Allen

Look Ma, I Made A Funny

I was asked to write about this topic by someone I can no longer locate. It’s rare to lose them before you lose them, but I suppose it happens to the best of us, just typically not to me. Ellen, if you’re out there, this pile is for you…

4 months ago · 22 likes · 30 comments · Scott Allen

Silentium

Mists of silence

4 months ago · 37 likes · Andō

The Stone Age

The Fire In Which We Burn

Salute, my fellow dank-warriors and shield-maidens of the Interwebs! The current cycle-o'-months is about to end, and a new one is ‘aboot’ to rise again. (Showing a little love to my Canadian frens right there…

4 months ago · 7 likes · 5 comments · Stone Bryson

Unfolding the World

The Hatred That Binds Us

This is a long post with a number of images, and some email clients may choke on it. Read the whole thing in full at http://jdanielsawyer.substack.com…

5 months ago · 42 likes · 2 comments · J. Daniel Sawyer

The Victory Palace Poetry Stack

Would you...?

Would you set aside all your differences your prejudices your religion your skin color your politics your allegiances your secret oaths your dirty deals and unite--like at any sports event-- for one shining moment for Earth's finest hour and root for this team? Would you? Could you? It's up to you…

3 years ago · 3 likes · Victory Palace

Written Ward

The Last Cup

The Twilight Zone redefined storytelling, drawing audiences into the unimaginable. Now, 66 years later, top writers, artists, and musicians are stepping into its eerie glow with a fresh twist. Ready to see where they’ll take you…

5 months ago · 175 likes · 114 comments · John Ward

Jenn

Dec 30

Thank you so very much, Demi. I’m so grateful to be included in this illustrious reading list. I’m really looking forward to reading through some of these!

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Bob

Dec 29

Mists of Silence - wonderful poetic piece. Thanks for listing it.

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