SJ Waryck
@var13.bsky.social
Just a human trying to live his best self.
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
~ Walt Whitman
~ Walt Whitman
December 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
~ Walt Whitman
~ Walt Whitman
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
December 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
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December 21, 2025
December 21, 2025
Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
December 21, 2025
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December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025
“For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was to a certain extent about character.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
December 15, 2025
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
December 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
~ Soren Kierkegaard
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation
~ Albert Camus
~ Albert Camus
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation
~ Albert Camus
~ Albert Camus
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
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December 6, 2025
December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
December 6, 2025
And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
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November 30, 2025
November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
November 30, 2025
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
It is plain that we were meant to go together.
~J. R. R. Tolkien
~J. R. R. Tolkien
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It is plain that we were meant to go together.
~J. R. R. Tolkien
~J. R. R. Tolkien
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November 25, 2025
November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
November 25, 2025
There was a willow hanging over the mill- pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There was a willow hanging over the mill- pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
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November 23, 2025
November 23, 2025
“Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked ...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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