David Cross

@solvingforpattern.bsky.social

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Husband, father, grandpa, retired prof; Wendell Berry is my muse; fighting the long retreat as best I can. Ghost: solving-for-pattern.ghost.io/introduction

The Radical Spinoza by Paul Wienpahl
Viridian Lake, Arlington Texas
The Ugly American by Lederer & Burdick
NYT article on Annie Hillerman
War is a Racket by Brig. Gen. Smedley D.Butler
The Village, by Bing West
12/1/2025 cover of The New Yorker, “Taking Flight” by Malika Favre
Egret by the lake
Game of Thrones - Winter Is Coming
Green Book (the movie)
War is a Racket, by Maj Gen Smedley Butler
Navajo Code Talkers
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The Impeded Stream by Wendell Berry
Greed Kills