Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We did a thing - #TysonsCornersVA Food 5K and fun run 030
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Two excellent reads for #LaborDay - a bio of Frances Perkins and of course sage analysis by the brilliant Shoshana Zuboff. 030
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A goldfinch first thing Monday morning! Absolutely resplendent! #birds 020
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Honorable George Daniels officiating the oath of citizenship for 30 new citizens at the @chq1874.bsky.social Amphitheater! 120
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The irrepressible Priya Parker on the @chq1874.bsky.social stage this morning. Set the purpose, enforce the rules/norms, find the right health/conflict balance, and focus on what is precious here. #gathering 100
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Our final Sacred Song Service at @chq1874.bsky.social on Sunday August 23, 2026. Such a wonderful end to the weekend preparing for a great week! 020
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Day trip out to @profootballhof.bsky.social - great tour by Tom and a really well presented museum! 010
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“Society collapses if we forget we are all part of a community” Aimee Nezhukumatathil #hope #joy 162
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Norman Wirzba at @chq1874.bsky.social Hall of Philosophy - inspirational talk on the Theology of Eating. Gardening, Cooking, and Sharing Spirituality as central to eating being the means of life. “Food is God’s Love made delicious!” 110
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Michael Grunwald giving a talk on the @chq1874.bsky.social Amphitheater based on his research for his book “We are eating the earth.” Key points about agriculture being the biggest challenge to the climate crisis we face. Solid presentation and backed up assertions! 100
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Quick but compelling read on the mine war of 1920-21. One piece of history - it represented the first use of Air Power in civil insurrection. Mitchell - off of his Ostfriedland sinking sent the 88th to West Virginia. #books #history #labor 030
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The amazing Karen Florini speaking @chq1874.bsky.social Hall of Philosophy today (Aug 19, 2026) showing a serendipitous symbiosis of solar panels shading sheep while they safely graze. The lecture highlighted the interconnectedness of Food and Climate. Solutions exist if we act together! 130
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Brian Frank, FTW Ventures speaking on innovation in food and food sources. Truly optimistic delivery - perhaps a bit too Pollyannish on the altruism levels of large companies, but the sentiment is well received. 030
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Niagara Falls in August is a great way to stay cool and be impressed by the power of nature! 010
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Call me a skeptic - but I don’t see this going well. Certainly good to try new approaches, but cyber-privateering may unleash greater threats and escalate malicious activity in an ever accelerating cycle of aggression. 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Definitely fan service for the Chautauqua Symphony tonight - Flying Dutchman and Tchaikovsky 5th! 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Melody Barnes speaking eloquently @chq1874.bsky.social on the importance of the rule of law as the foundation transforming temporary allowances to durable freedom. What an eloquent and erudite speaker! 010
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Absolutely blessed to listen to this engagement with Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen at Chautauqua! 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Sometimes you pick up a book with one expectation and it completely inverts that expectation. Adam IP Smiths “Gettysburg” did that - excellent reflection turn on Gettysburg the battle and more importantly Gettysburg the meaning. #history 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Last day of Active Duty after 29 years and 14 days. Spent it attending a friends promotion and touring our favorite base Beale “Recce Town USA”! 110
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 16/06/2026A sad day for Edwards AFB, a sad day for the Air Force and a sad day for me. A toast to my friend and colleague Vicky, lost today during a test flight. Godspeed brother. 450
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If you want to know why the USAF is what it is - this book succinctly characterizes its inception. At the center of it all is HAP Arnold. Wolk did a great job in this work. #history #airpower #USAF 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Pair of downy woodpeckers working on the suet feeder! #birds #birding #bskybirds 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This adorable pair of #birds showed up a day ago! American Goldfinches - female and male? 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 27/05/2026A first for #birding in #NoVa - an indigo bunting! 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Well-written book tracing the roots of the non-denominational charismatic movement through January 6th, and a warning for how the spiritual oligarchy of NAR and like organizations represent a threat to our democracy. 010
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This book took a surprising turn with the detailed focus on the 1872 use of the 14th Amendment to prosecute Klan members at a federal level for traditionally local crimes if committed in an effort to suppress/deny suffrage. Frustrating that Akerman was only given a brief window to act. 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Really good read about the emergence of the DoJ, AG Akerman, and the frustration over our seeming inability to hold racism (and racists) to account. Recommend complementing this book with broader histories of Reconstruction. (Foner) 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Exceptional book by @mkn.bsky.social - an excellently researched and objective analysis of the complex history of the American west. Given current events, we are well advised to take a hard look at our past, to correct to a course of moral good on our arc. 1254
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 02/05/2026#FeedFairfax5k was a well executed and fun event! The assembly line at the end of the race was a great way to cool down! 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Insightful #book regarding #academic and practical #security studies, for those so inclined. O’Brien addresses the complexity of war and power missed when one-dimensional analysis seems to be the only method pundits, wonks, and policy makers have in their quiver. Recommend! 021
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Glorious, if a bit blustery hike at Devils Punch Bowl yesterday. Trail was well maintained, and the area seems to be recovering from fires last year. 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Bald Top Brewery on a delightful Fall Sunday afternoon! 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Can’t think of a better way to spend September 1st than reading about work and the Information Age! #LaborDay is one of the more important memorializations for us, especially in this time with such extreme imbalance between wealth and work! 020
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Beautiful Day in Arlington today. Distracting from the politics of the moment, visited the reopened Air Force Monument. 010
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Curious and insightful read - Rocky was an Air Corps communications officer who captured the southwest pacific air war in WW2. Pithy observations, characterizing the mundane to the strategic. Gem of a #history. Maybe we can take a lesson in ACE from it! 020
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 30/05/2025At Ft Leavenworth for a Working Group-totally took my lunch to walkabout. 020
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Crooked Beech Brewing in Loveland Colorado is a great community spot, serving a range of beers (alcoholic and non-alcoholic selections), and offering a family-friendly (and dog friendly) space! Also run by some of our best friends in the world! 010
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Finished up this little gem #BookSky - Joan Didion’s observations of the Deep South (Mississippi and Alabama). Pithy and illuminating as a set of notes along the gulf coast, wrapping up in California. Fun, thoughtful read! #books 050
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Congrats to the Colorado Mesa University graduates today! 020
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Springtime in northern Virginia is incredible. Loving the blooming flowers and the new growth of leaves! 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Barksdale AFB Air Park is a nice little gift for airplane lovers! #airplanes I am a sucker for classic airplanes! 010
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 22/03/2025FDR memorial on a beautiful spring day. #Hope 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Beautiful day here among the early Cherry Blossoms in #DC - catching hope among the MLK Jr memorial. 000
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Needed to read this by Bruce Baker. #History #Hope 020
Jason Eckberg @eckforce2025.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Since Mary and I both turn 50 this year, we celebrated with the purchase of #bird feeders. The one on the left is the “Squirrel Buster 2000” - mitigating the varmint scourge of the birdseed industry. Still - for the entertainment ROI - better than Netflix! #borbs #birbs #birds 000
