Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Project 1
I’m not much for resolutions because, in general, I’m not great about committing to things. However, one resolve I did make this year is to create one article of clothing per month. I’ve tried to make my clothing for the past 10 years, but the skills necessary have managed to evade me. There was that…
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A Study in Opposites
Jack is very much an only dog. He devours all our attention and seems to always frantically seek more. For about a year we’ve been discussing the possibility of getting a new dog. We felt like getting another could be perfect for all of us … or disastrous. We haven’t been aggressive in our search,…
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Trimming the Tree
Grand plans for doing things (making gifts) don’t always see the light around here for various reasons (the plague I seem to have caught this weekend). But this week we did manage to trim the tree and make some stockings. This will be our seventh Christmas together and we’ve never really established a holiday routine…
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Thanks & Alpaca
Regan and I spent our Thanksgiving being thankful for a family that still gathers for holidays. For about 20 years Grandma has hosted both Christmas and Thanksgiving in her barn — the barn that she and Grandpa renovated with dreams of turning into a bed & breakfast until they fell so in love with it…
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Market Harvest
Champaign, Illinois and Park City, Utah have amazing farmers markets and we’ve wanted to find something on a similar scale in Indianapolis, but have had no luck until this morning. The Indy Winter Farmers Market in the Chatham Arch Building at East and 9th is pretty fantastic. I mean, really fantastic. Our spoils include a…
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Bundle
A few years ago one of my best friends got swept off her feet by an Irish filmmaker who she met at the film festival where we were working. Now she’s married, living in Ireland and they are expecting their very first child in a few short weeks. Sadly I’ve never been to visit them.…
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For the Birds
If you’re small and on a search I’ve got a feeder for you to perch on I Like Birds, The Eels Just as my friends started streaming into the house today for a serious craft session, The Eels, I Like Birds popped on the player. Very appropriate. These little guys will be gracing the branches…
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Long Weekend
As a reward for all the long hours worked over the past few weeks, management gave staff a four day weekend. Regan took these days off with me and together we had a bang-up time. We decided to throw a Halloween party. We don’t often throw parties because each time we have people over I…
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Mission Accomplished
Over the course of the last week and a half I logged 120 + hours of work and consumed more fast food than I would like to think about — movie theatre pizza included. But now one more film festival is checked off my list and we’ll see if there are any more in store…
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Prepping
I don’t do well with being away from home. When I first went to college I packed as though heading off to a third world country. It’s not too different preparing for working the upcoming film festival. Even though I’ll come home every night, I’ve started to get antsy about all the long days at…
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