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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I think these protest would be ok if they chant “Hang ICE Pence”

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A man from Gaylord caught that foul ball.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Western Michigan leads in the NCAA hockey championship game 4 to 2

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Welcome to March. Today it is “one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.". Dickens.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Under the Blue ridge parkway. One of Patti’s favorite trails.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The mountains are calling and I must go.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it. Planet of the Apes

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Vonnegut states a granfalloon is a proud and meaningless association of human beings including any nation, anytime, anywhere.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Google has no backbone. They change the name of the Gulf of Mexico then turn of the comments so people can’t hurt their feelings.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

That’s the time we are living in.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The WNBA needs a rival league. Salaries in the WNBA are way too low.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

As us Lions fans say at this he end of ever year there is always next season, next decade, sometime in the future.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Then, when you’re no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should notice anyway.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. Emerson

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

WTF. Trade war with Canada? Canada? And Mexico too? What do a tell my Principle students without saying Trump is dumb as a box of rocks and mean as a rattle snake?

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Sunset over Lake Michigan last summer.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My son Andy took this picture. Hell yeah

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

My grandfather migrated from Germany to avoid conscription and had a better life in Michigan as a fruit farmer.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

9. I love hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I’ve been calling MAGA brain, although it actually predates Trump. I’d define it as the belief that effective governance comes from being harsh and unfeeling, putting aside namby-pamby, dare I say woke, concerns about stuff like protecting the environment or respecting civil liberties.—Krugman

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind. —Kurt Vonnegut

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