{"id":121823,"date":"2025-07-24T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=121823"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:44:24","slug":"thursday-night-man-of-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/07\/24\/thursday-night-man-of-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; Man of letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dropped by CHris&#8217;s house on the way in to work,. I&#8217;ve had this QR code\u00a0 that Max made to help Chris raise money for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/arts-culture\/artist-chris-cleary-plans-to-spread-hope-through-vermont-43218785\">HOPE project<\/a> . Chris and Kim were workign on a new word garden and were surrounded wiht letters and sandblased stone.I love visitign Chris and Kim.. there&#8217;s always so much cool art happening around them.. .\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hope-1024x628.png?strip=info&#038;w=600 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hope-1024x628.png?strip=info&#038;w=900 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hope-1024x628.png?strip=info&#038;w=1200 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hope-1024x628.png?strip=info&#038;w=1284 1284w\" 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We took Dave and our freidn Gary along with us. David and Gary went to summer camp togther for a zillion years.\u00a0 \u00a0 There were soem other folsk at David and Pam&#8217;s this time.. m friewnd Steve and his wife Lindy, two neghbors whose names i&#8217;m not remebering and Flor.. another good freind of David and Pams..always great conversations aroudn this table.. we talekd abotu books, neews, herbalism.. and soemhow got on the topic of BETA.. FLor mentioed she had a freind whop&#8217;d worked at BETA.. 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