Thanks for posting this.. Skim-read the first one, and it seems great. Can't wait to find time to read the rest.
It obviously deals with a lot of political and citizenship questioning that many of us are dealing with right now, but I've long been passionate about the americana / love-of-small-towns / sprawl-and-growth-as-inherently-problematic subject, too. Another thing I've been struggling with for some time is my own role in things. Practicing as an architect in one of America's last-best-places for four decades, I've just come to feel like I've been a tool in its destruction - no matter how sensitive or altruistic I tried to be. As my once-unknown home town transforms into the most exclusive and sought-after of all real estate markets, it's really been tough. If you like this sort of exploration and decaying history thing, I'll share a tip for a documentary series that my son and I stumbled upon during the Pandemic. It's called "Abandoned," and was produced in 2016, so not too old yet. I think we found it on HULU, but I really reccommend seeking it out anywhere you can find it. The premise is that this ex-pro skateboarder (Rick McCrank) goes around to places with decaying civilization, looking for obscure objects to ride. It sounds stupid, but give it just a few moments to hook you. We both found it hauntingly beautiful and tragically heartbreaking at the same time, and occasionally even had to stop watching just because of the emotional toll. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6150820/ Folding bikes and skateboards are Rivendell-adjacent, rigth? At least as long as Will is at the helm. On Saturday, November 30, 2024 at 6:16:49 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > A bitter-sweet nostalgia for a genuine America. Newly married couple > explore contemporary America on folding bikes. These links go to > descriptions of decayed, far NE/Canadian border, grey winter, very small > town America. > > https://shagbark.substack.com/p/love-letter-to-america > > https://shagbark.substack.com/p/a-journey-begins > > https://www.thefp.com/p/the-other-american-border-towns > > https://www.thefp.com/p/twelve-months-to-fall-back-in-love > > > [image: image.png] > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/309d7425-cbcb-40c6-a994-580f22cc2912n%40googlegroups.com.
