Chimbly
@chimbly.bsky.social
Vermont Liberal, Aspiring Minimalist
Philosophy, Applied Mathematics
ANTIFA Maximus
Vegetarian since 1978, ~99% Vegan
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Currently having a lover’s quarrel with the world
Philosophy, Applied Mathematics
ANTIFA Maximus
Vegetarian since 1978, ~99% Vegan
🇨🇭🇩🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸
Currently having a lover’s quarrel with the world
Yesterday, or so it seems ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Yesterday, or so it seems ❤️
Met my nephew this AM for breakfast on his way home to Portland for the TG break.
Stubborn kid was determined to make the four and a half hour trip to the sea coast on his beloved Triumph in spitting snow at +1C.
As hard-headed as his uncle…
and possibly loved all the more by me for it.
Stubborn kid was determined to make the four and a half hour trip to the sea coast on his beloved Triumph in spitting snow at +1C.
As hard-headed as his uncle…
and possibly loved all the more by me for it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Met my nephew this AM for breakfast on his way home to Portland for the TG break.
Stubborn kid was determined to make the four and a half hour trip to the sea coast on his beloved Triumph in spitting snow at +1C.
As hard-headed as his uncle…
and possibly loved all the more by me for it.
Stubborn kid was determined to make the four and a half hour trip to the sea coast on his beloved Triumph in spitting snow at +1C.
As hard-headed as his uncle…
and possibly loved all the more by me for it.
Driving home late one night on an otherwise deserted, pitch-dark Vermont backroad, I came upon a brilliant light and scads of parked cars. Turns out, they were filming a scene in this movie about Werewolves.
Based on a true story?
Come here and find out 😳
Based on a true story?
Come here and find out 😳
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Driving home late one night on an otherwise deserted, pitch-dark Vermont backroad, I came upon a brilliant light and scads of parked cars. Turns out, they were filming a scene in this movie about Werewolves.
Based on a true story?
Come here and find out 😳
Based on a true story?
Come here and find out 😳
Some twenty miles south of you and perhaps a few minutes later. Perfectly still here this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Some twenty miles south of you and perhaps a few minutes later. Perfectly still here this morning.
Up and treading the Vermont hills before sunrise this Sunday morning. Absolutely still and yet profoundly moving. At least it was for this bashed about pilgrim.
“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.” Alain de Botton
“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.” Alain de Botton
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Up and treading the Vermont hills before sunrise this Sunday morning. Absolutely still and yet profoundly moving. At least it was for this bashed about pilgrim.
“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.” Alain de Botton
“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.” Alain de Botton
On a lark, I searched online for my maternal great-great grandfather’s enlistment paper last evening. Found it!
Turns out, he’d joined the Union Army as a Private only eleven days after the Civil War had begun.
Born in Switzerland in 1845, Opa Amsler would have been 16 years old when he signed up.
Turns out, he’d joined the Union Army as a Private only eleven days after the Civil War had begun.
Born in Switzerland in 1845, Opa Amsler would have been 16 years old when he signed up.
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
On a lark, I searched online for my maternal great-great grandfather’s enlistment paper last evening. Found it!
Turns out, he’d joined the Union Army as a Private only eleven days after the Civil War had begun.
Born in Switzerland in 1845, Opa Amsler would have been 16 years old when he signed up.
Turns out, he’d joined the Union Army as a Private only eleven days after the Civil War had begun.
Born in Switzerland in 1845, Opa Amsler would have been 16 years old when he signed up.
In a better world (far, far better) either Marc or this guy would be AG. The other would sit on the Supreme Court.
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In a better world (far, far better) either Marc or this guy would be AG. The other would sit on the Supreme Court.
Not quite animated but Jeanne, from the “comic book”, “Vol du corbeau,” illustrated by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Not quite animated but Jeanne, from the “comic book”, “Vol du corbeau,” illustrated by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
“Hip, hip, hurra! Kunstnerfest på Skagen” 1888
Artists of Skagen, Denmark at a garden party
Artists of Skagen, Denmark at a garden party
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“Hip, hip, hurra! Kunstnerfest på Skagen” 1888
Artists of Skagen, Denmark at a garden party
Artists of Skagen, Denmark at a garden party
Symbol of our national disgrace
Symbol of our disrespect, apathy and cowardice
Symbol of our disrespect, apathy and cowardice
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Symbol of our national disgrace
Symbol of our disrespect, apathy and cowardice
Symbol of our disrespect, apathy and cowardice
Our Dahlia 'Procyon'. Beautiful whilst it lasted.
“As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “Letters From A Stoic,” 65 CE
“As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “Letters From A Stoic,” 65 CE
October 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Our Dahlia 'Procyon'. Beautiful whilst it lasted.
“As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “Letters From A Stoic,” 65 CE
“As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “Letters From A Stoic,” 65 CE
"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction...no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
Kurt Vonnegut.
Kurt Vonnegut.
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction...no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
Kurt Vonnegut.
Kurt Vonnegut.
Looks delicious!
We had what my Italian mother-in-law calls “peasant food” for dinner. Squash, onions, carrots and cauliflower from our garden. Store bought polenta corn, mushrooms and smoked tofu.
We had what my Italian mother-in-law calls “peasant food” for dinner. Squash, onions, carrots and cauliflower from our garden. Store bought polenta corn, mushrooms and smoked tofu.
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Looks delicious!
We had what my Italian mother-in-law calls “peasant food” for dinner. Squash, onions, carrots and cauliflower from our garden. Store bought polenta corn, mushrooms and smoked tofu.
We had what my Italian mother-in-law calls “peasant food” for dinner. Squash, onions, carrots and cauliflower from our garden. Store bought polenta corn, mushrooms and smoked tofu.
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”
James Nolan Gandy builds intricate mechanical harmonographs in order to create moiré patterns.
www.jamesnolangandy.com
www.jamesnolangandy.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
James Nolan Gandy builds intricate mechanical harmonographs in order to create moiré patterns.
www.jamesnolangandy.com
www.jamesnolangandy.com
Why, then, have to be human?
...because being here means so much;
because everything here,
vanishing so quickly, seems to need us,
and strangely keeps calling to us...To have been
here once, completely, even if only once,
to have been at one with the earth--
this is beyond undoing.
~ R. M. Rilke ~
...because being here means so much;
because everything here,
vanishing so quickly, seems to need us,
and strangely keeps calling to us...To have been
here once, completely, even if only once,
to have been at one with the earth--
this is beyond undoing.
~ R. M. Rilke ~
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why, then, have to be human?
...because being here means so much;
because everything here,
vanishing so quickly, seems to need us,
and strangely keeps calling to us...To have been
here once, completely, even if only once,
to have been at one with the earth--
this is beyond undoing.
~ R. M. Rilke ~
...because being here means so much;
because everything here,
vanishing so quickly, seems to need us,
and strangely keeps calling to us...To have been
here once, completely, even if only once,
to have been at one with the earth--
this is beyond undoing.
~ R. M. Rilke ~
Alles in Ordnung
Via Matthew Anderson
Via Matthew Anderson
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Alles in Ordnung
Via Matthew Anderson
Via Matthew Anderson
Yet more cranberries, and well over 20 lbs (9 kg) already in the freezer.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Yet more cranberries, and well over 20 lbs (9 kg) already in the freezer.
It was dry enough this summer to wade/walk out to Law Island for picnics.
John Law was the first white inhabitant; c. 1780. An early 19th c. historical gazette characterized him as, "A man of liberal education, fine talents, but too liberal and high minded to be otherwise than poor." My kinda guy.
John Law was the first white inhabitant; c. 1780. An early 19th c. historical gazette characterized him as, "A man of liberal education, fine talents, but too liberal and high minded to be otherwise than poor." My kinda guy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It was dry enough this summer to wade/walk out to Law Island for picnics.
John Law was the first white inhabitant; c. 1780. An early 19th c. historical gazette characterized him as, "A man of liberal education, fine talents, but too liberal and high minded to be otherwise than poor." My kinda guy.
John Law was the first white inhabitant; c. 1780. An early 19th c. historical gazette characterized him as, "A man of liberal education, fine talents, but too liberal and high minded to be otherwise than poor." My kinda guy.
Paris, 1952, by the Hungarian photographer, Robert Capra
October 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Paris, 1952, by the Hungarian photographer, Robert Capra