Chimbly
@chimbly.bsky.social
Vermont Progressive/Social-Democrat
Lover of mathematics, philosophy, the arts, French pastry and my wife *
Aspiring minimalist
ANTIFA stalwart
Vegetarian since 1978
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Currently having a lover’s quarrel with the world
* Not in that order
Lover of mathematics, philosophy, the arts, French pastry and my wife *
Aspiring minimalist
ANTIFA stalwart
Vegetarian since 1978
🇨🇭🇩🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸
Currently having a lover’s quarrel with the world
* Not in that order
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Committed to memory
“Life is a series of moments, presence in each is a choice and the distinction between existence and happenstance”
Richard Williamson
“Life is a series of moments, presence in each is a choice and the distinction between existence and happenstance”
Richard Williamson
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Committed to memory
“Life is a series of moments, presence in each is a choice and the distinction between existence and happenstance”
Richard Williamson
“Life is a series of moments, presence in each is a choice and the distinction between existence and happenstance”
Richard Williamson
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And now for something completely different…
Swedish artist Mathias Kärnlund born 1972 Sweden
"Winter glow"
Acrylic on canvas
81* 65 *cm
“This Painting is, like many this winter, inspired by a view I saw when I was out walking the dog. It is easy to live "here and now" in such situations”
Swedish artist Mathias Kärnlund born 1972 Sweden
"Winter glow"
Acrylic on canvas
81* 65 *cm
“This Painting is, like many this winter, inspired by a view I saw when I was out walking the dog. It is easy to live "here and now" in such situations”
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
And now for something completely different…
Swedish artist Mathias Kärnlund born 1972 Sweden
"Winter glow"
Acrylic on canvas
81* 65 *cm
“This Painting is, like many this winter, inspired by a view I saw when I was out walking the dog. It is easy to live "here and now" in such situations”
Swedish artist Mathias Kärnlund born 1972 Sweden
"Winter glow"
Acrylic on canvas
81* 65 *cm
“This Painting is, like many this winter, inspired by a view I saw when I was out walking the dog. It is easy to live "here and now" in such situations”
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Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
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In the quiet of the day, remember this truth
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In the quiet of the day, remember this truth
A snippet from yesterday’s long walk in the woods from my doorstep. Retraced my steps this morning in 5cm of fresh snow.
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A snippet from yesterday’s long walk in the woods from my doorstep. Retraced my steps this morning in 5cm of fresh snow.
Just about perfect. I liked her cadenza as well.
Beethoven: Violinkonzert ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Hilary Hahn ∙ Alain Altinoglu
YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just about perfect. I liked her cadenza as well.
Breakfast of Champions
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Breakfast of Champions
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Variations on the Kanon
YouTube video by George Winston - Topic
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I don’t own a television but I’m presently visiting my brother and we watched this film together last night.
We ended up talking about the themes of the film, and of life in general, till the wee hours.
We ended up talking about the themes of the film, and of life in general, till the wee hours.
Train Dreams | Final Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I don’t own a television but I’m presently visiting my brother and we watched this film together last night.
We ended up talking about the themes of the film, and of life in general, till the wee hours.
We ended up talking about the themes of the film, and of life in general, till the wee hours.
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“May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within.”
- John O'Donohue
- John O'Donohue
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within.”
- John O'Donohue
- John O'Donohue
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
I’m not at all religious although I was raised and schooled in Catholicism.
MAGA Jesus is as alien to the Jesus that I was taught as the USA is foreign to the America that I was born in.
Mind you, their symbols remain the same, only they’re larger and increasingly everpresent. That’s by design.
MAGA Jesus is as alien to the Jesus that I was taught as the USA is foreign to the America that I was born in.
Mind you, their symbols remain the same, only they’re larger and increasingly everpresent. That’s by design.
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I’m not at all religious although I was raised and schooled in Catholicism.
MAGA Jesus is as alien to the Jesus that I was taught as the USA is foreign to the America that I was born in.
Mind you, their symbols remain the same, only they’re larger and increasingly everpresent. That’s by design.
MAGA Jesus is as alien to the Jesus that I was taught as the USA is foreign to the America that I was born in.
Mind you, their symbols remain the same, only they’re larger and increasingly everpresent. That’s by design.
“The constant challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.” Alain de Botton
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“The constant challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.” 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.
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The saving grace, 2024 - by Dmitry Ersler, Russian/Thai
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The saving grace, 2024 - by Dmitry Ersler, Russian/Thai
“The mark of a civilization is that it does leave something behind. It creates in its time and then it leaves behind something better for others to build upon. That’s what we thought the United States was…”
The USA was always flawed, but I believed, up till now, that we sought to do better.
The USA was always flawed, but I believed, up till now, that we sought to do better.
The End of the American Empire
The historian Margaret MacMillan on the impact of the Trump-led American withdrawal from world leadership. Plus: David on the corrupting effects of lavish foreign gifts to Trump, and Charles Dickens’s...
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“The mark of a civilization is that it does leave something behind. It creates in its time and then it leaves behind something better for others to build upon. That’s what we thought the United States was…”
The USA was always flawed, but I believed, up till now, that we sought to do better.
The USA was always flawed, but I believed, up till now, that we sought to do better.
If the stars were to appear only one night in a thousand years, R. W. Emerson imagined those lucky few to see them would be dumbstruck. If anything, I believe their nightly appearance is all the more reason for awe. It’s not some freakish anomaly. This truly is the wondrous universe that we inhabit.
A New View of the Moon
YouTube video by To Scale:
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If the stars were to appear only one night in a thousand years, R. W. Emerson imagined those lucky few to see them would be dumbstruck. If anything, I believe their nightly appearance is all the more reason for awe. It’s not some freakish anomaly. This truly is the wondrous universe that we inhabit.
“…he is now fully enabled to undermine national elections. No one can prevent him from remaining president of the United States for a constitutionally prohibited third term—except the American people, in whom ultimate power resides under the Constitution of the United States.”
J. Michael Luttig
J. Michael Luttig
President for Life
Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“…he is now fully enabled to undermine national elections. No one can prevent him from remaining president of the United States for a constitutionally prohibited third term—except the American people, in whom ultimate power resides under the Constitution of the United States.”
J. Michael Luttig
J. Michael Luttig
“Being an artist…comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide.” ~ R. M. Rilke
A bumblebee´s Paradise
YouTube video by Tor-Arne Moen
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“Being an artist…comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide.” ~ R. M. Rilke
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
Yes, and thus far we’re failing the test miserably.
“This is a character test for our country.”
David Ignatius
“Washington Week with the Atlantic”
October 24, 2025
“This is a character test for our country.”
David Ignatius
“Washington Week with the Atlantic”
October 24, 2025
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Yes, and thus far we’re failing the test miserably.
“This is a character test for our country.”
David Ignatius
“Washington Week with the Atlantic”
October 24, 2025
“This is a character test for our country.”
David Ignatius
“Washington Week with the Atlantic”
October 24, 2025