Maroons Online Vol. 1… No. 57
Acta non verba
Observer: Wisdom Is Not Taught
Macky’s New York: Plastic Pizza People
William Peay: Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame Induction Dinner: October 30, 2021
Paul Cortellesi On Cooking: Escarole and Beans
Graydon Pool: Circa 2018
RHS New Players Company: The Addams Family
PSA: HTTP vs. HTTPS
Observer
Wisdom Is Not Taught
Whatever we might think about the value of a Liberal Arts education, the one thing it won’t teach you is wisdom. None of the institutions we prep our children for from the time they begin pre-school can do this. The advantages of birth will always top anything a school teacher, coach, an instructor at a trade school or a professor at a college will ever convey. The diploma and degree really just demonstrates that the holder can complete something. Too many people cannot.
Wisdom is acquired through living and is best shared with friends, as Modern Elder Chip Conley likes to say. You gather wisdom as you journey down the road of Life. If you are lucky, you’ll find mentors, and strive to be a life long learner.
From my experience, calling oneself wise or learned before you reach the age of 50 is a stretch of the imagination. It’s only by this age that you can begin to connect the dots of all that has gone before and start to make sense of it. Not to say you can’t be smart at age 18 or 38, only that your own self-doubts and those society has about you will likely supersede any suspicion you might hold about your own brilliance.
Having self-doubts is normal and customary. It’s when you reach an age where you are well seasoned in Life’s vagaries, with a variety of contingent facts about the world, that you will be able to master your doubts and go on to complete a full life. Before that there are too many choices to consider. After age 60 you have made most of your life’s choices and can just be glad you don’t have to make them all again! You start to appreciate the advantages of age. It embodies kindness, thoughtfulness, and the ability to hold your tongue when others prattle on about the meaning of life or how to get by in this world.
Macky’s New York
Matthew Cortellesi Photography
July 24, 2021 - Greenwich Village
Plastic Pizza People
The guy on the right went to college with me...he was a captain in the army.
The kid on the left is the son of a friend of ours from college who too is now in the ROTC program at Trinity.
I was honored to spend the afternoon with them and so knowing their contribution and my love affair for pizza...I took em to John's on Bleecker and they gave us table 1 and when the pizza came...I ran out and shot this through three pains of plastic with them in the window.
Bleecker street just south of Jones looking east through thick plastic and lead window.
Time 5pm
#mackysnewyork
William Peay
Tales From The Wood…
East side of Ridgewood train station looking South
East side of Ridgewood train station looking North.
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame Induction Dinner
October 30, 2021
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Paul Cortellesi On Cooking
Escarole and Beans
Weekend fare.
It is a rare weekend day that we manage those precious few moments that a leisurely meal provides. Today I had a willing partner. Between work on the foam form for the concrete pour, dog sitting for an additional two of Quinn’s puppies, dinner preps for the afternoon guests, and the packing for a Monday trip to Manhattan, we also found time for a variation on my father’s Escarole and Beans - an Italian staple.
My garden has Swiss Chard, but no Escarole so that formed the basis, a Shishito Pepper, and parsley also ended up getting the snip.
Start a diced onion in some olive oil, while it is going add in a mound of garlic, the diced Shishito, a dash of hot pepper, and the finely diced ribs of the Swiss chard. Let it sauté for a bit while you chop the leaves of the chard and open a can of Cannelloni Beans. Add in the leaves, 3/4 of the beans and much of their cooking fluid. Mash the remaining beans, add along with the parsley, and let it all simmer. Taste after a few, adding additional cooking fluid (the stuff from the can) or water as you see fit.
Serve solo or with toasts. A grind of pepper and cheese is perfectly acceptable.
Graydon Pool
Circa 2018
RHS New Players Company
The Addams Family
Public Service Announcement
HTTP vs. HTTPS
HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. The problem with the regular HTTP protocol is that the information that flows from server to browser is not encrypted, which means it can be easily stolen. HTTPS protocols remedy this by using an SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate, which helps create a secure encrypted connection between the server and the browser, thereby protecting potentially sensitive information from being stolen as it is transferred between the server and the browser.
If you have a website, then do your visitors a favor and install an SSL certificate so they are less vulnerable to hackers. If your visitors are safer then when they visit your site your site will be safer. Nothing sadder than finding your site has been hacked.
Peace