I write. I take pictures. I grow my own food. If I were a pioneer, I’d be dead. IG: @runningdmc
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Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
I often think the difference between my childhood and my kid’s is how close I was to the sources of production versus how distant those experiences are for them.
As a kid holding a bowl of rice, I thought of my grandparents kneeling in the rice paddies, not the grocery store.
Holding a plastic toy, I pictured the injection molding machine running day and night at the shop across the street, not Toys “R” Us. We collected still-hot defective parts straight from the molds as toys.
Cooking chicken thighs, I recalled how long it took Grandma to slaughter and clean them, not Costco packaging.
Holding a glass bottle, I thought of the old man on the corner recycling them on his tricycle back to the factory.
Production happened around us; we saw the effort required to get things to the table.
That closeness bred gratitude for food, clothes, and shoes because they were tied to people we knew.
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
There’s a new world record pumpkin and it’s absolutely electric!
Ron Wallace of Rhode Island smashed the previous world record by over 300 pounds and is the first person to ever grow a pumpkin over 3,000 pounds!
Official weight: 3,156 pounds!
Video credit to northeastgiantpumpkin on Instagram.
Well done, Ron!
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
The nor’easter lashing Nantucket with wind and rain this weekend has uncovered the remains of a shipwreck along the island’s south shore.
The fragment is likely from the 19th century schooner Warren Sawyer, a wooden ship that wrecked near Miacomet Beach on December 22, 1884.
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley’s security chief, had already seen the World Trade Center attacked in 1993.
After that bombing, he concluded the complex remained a target and warned that the next strike might come by plane—not another truck bomb. The firm could not leave: it occupied about 22 floors of the South Tower, and its lease ran until 2006. Walking away would have cost hundreds of millions and wrecked operations. So Rescorla prepared people to get out instead.
He imposed unannounced evacuation drills with no exemptions. Brokers were pulled from their desks and sent down the stairs two by two from the top floors, leaving a lane for firefighters. People complained. He kept going, convinced practice was the only way to beat panic.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Flight 11 hit the North Tower. From the 44th floor of the South Tower, Rescorla could see the fire. The Port Authority announced that the South Tower was secure and people should stay at their desks. He ignored that order, grabbed a bullhorn, and started the drill his staff already knew. He sang Cornish songs and “God Bless America” to keep the line moving. Seventeen minutes later, the second plane hit the South Tower. By then, most of Morgan Stanley was already heading out.
Of the roughly 2,700 employees in the building that morning, all but 13 survived. Rescorla could have left with them. He went back up instead, saying he would go only after he was sure no one remained. He was last seen around the 10th floor, moving higher. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m. His body was never found. He was one of the 13.
The point of the story is not just bravery in the moment. It is that he trusted his judgment when it was inconvenient, trained people when they did not want to be trained, and then used that preparation, and his own life, to get almost everyone out.
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
The response to winding down OpenBB has been unbelievable. Hundreds of messages came in; a lot of them from founders and builders asking for time to talk through what they're working on.
Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth to take all these calls... at the same time I'm still raising money for cancer research... and I still have a few OG OpenBB hats (the last ones that were made!!!).
So… here's the deal:
I'll do a 1-hour call/meet with anyone who donates at least $150 to Team Continuum. Fundraising, lessons learned, why I think we failed, open sourcing the workspace, what I would have done next - anything you want to ask.
This is valid until we reach my fundraising goal of $3500. And if we meet in person, I will bring you a vintage OpenBB hat guaranteed.
Donate here: lnkd.in/eX5piFJR
(make the email visible, or reach out to me after you donate so we can schedule it)
Reposts appreciated ❤️
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
I put eight years of Fitbit data into Claude. It spent a couple of hours analyzing everything, looking for correlations, etc.
What it found:
When I stay up late, I don't get as much sleep
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
The improve your insulin sensitivity playbook (non-medication version) 👇
Moderate calorie deficit (300-500 kcal)
Reduce simple sugars
Adequate protein intake (1g per pound of body weight - use ideal or goal weight if losing)
Dietary fiber (20-30g)
Whole foods and non-starchy (green) vegetables
Omega-3 rich foods or sources
Avoid alcohol
Weight training 2–4 times per week
Aerobic exercise (150+ minutes moderate intensity per week)
Post-meal walks (10–15 minutes)
Increase daily non-exercise activity (NEAT) (8-12k steps per day)
7–9 hours of quality sleep
Avoid (as much as possible) chronic stress
Getting it all correct at once isn’t happening from day 0. Pick ONE or TWO to work on. Recalibrate once you’ve developed the new habit. Never quit.
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
People often ask me about my favorite photo I’ve ever captured. It’s nearly impossible to choose just one, but this image almost always comes to mind.
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
江戸時代の日本人は、こんな生き方をしていた。
傘の骨が折れたら、傘屋に修理に出した。
着物が古くなったら、子供服に縫い直した。
さらに古くなったら、雑巾にした。
最後は燃やして、灰を畑の肥料にした。
捨てるものが、何もなかった。
これは貧しさからじゃない。
哲学からだった。
全てのものに命が宿っている。
だから最後の最後まで、その命を使い切る。
使い切ることが、
最大の敬意だった。
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
My father cried.
I had never seen it. Not once in my life.
70 years old. Post-war generation. He hated America with everything he had.
60 years. Not one kind word. Not one.
Then March 2011 came.
He sat in front of the TV. Every day. Silent. Fists on his knees.
Your Marines digging black mud with their bare hands for Japanese strangers.
Your 19-year-old sailors sleeping on cold steel floors so our grandmothers could have beds.
Your carrier sailing INTO the radiation while the whole world ran out.
He watched all of it. And said nothing.
Then one night I passed his room and I froze.
Behind that door, my father, the strongest and most stubborn man I ever knew, was sobbing like a child.
I couldn't move. I just stood there in the dark hallway, listening, crying with him.
Then he said it. One sentence. It tore 60 years apart:
"I was wrong about them."
Do you understand what that took?
A lifetime of hatred. Gone.
Destroyed by soldiers carrying soup to strangers.
America, you didn't just save our towns.
You reached inside my father's chest and healed a wound he swore would never close.
He passed away believing in you.
Happy 250th. 🇺🇸🇯🇵
An old man who hated you died loving you. My father.
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
Just when I think I’ve seen it all from the Providence Tartan Army:
#ProvidenceTartanArmy #TartanArmy #Scotland #WorldCup
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
I was thinking about this topic while out for a suboptimal run today.
We spend and extend too much energy not only in the doing but also simply thinking about “the best” or “most optimal” often at the expense of living a life.
Longevity is a battle you cannot win. It takes relatively MORE at some point on the age curve to simply tread water. You will eventually find yourself at a point where you can’t do anything really except sleep, eat, and workout if you want to be “optimal,” missing out on life.
The hang ups on best and optimal are ruining our ability to not only find any real balance but also enjoying life in a reasonable fashion.
The pursuit of longevity relies upon the assumption that more years means more life.
More years does not mean more life.
A week spent fully awake contains more life than a decade of mechanical existence.
In most cases, an extended life span just means a prolonged interval between birth and death.
You won’t be defined by how long you ‘occupied’ reality
You will be defined by the extent to which reality was forced to acknowledge your existence
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
When what needs to change in your health or fitness journey is … everything.
You need to give yourself grace. Take it easy on yourself. This is a lot.
Pick one or two items and move on them. Make progress. Add when able. Expect backslides. Recognize them.
Avoid perfection procrastination cycles. They are a cognitive trap.
Compare yourself to the old you only. Looking at others will steal the joy of your accomplishments.
Remember YOU CAN do this. Don’t wait in a hurry. It took you awhile to get to where you started. It’ll take awhile to get you where you want to go.
Mountain tops are transitory. Even if gorgeous. The real beauty and magic is found on the journey there.
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
学生のとき、当時付き合っていた彼氏と、東中野の小さなシネマで映画を観た。「老夫婦が古民家に暮らして畑を耕し、自然と共に暮らす」というドキュメンタリーだった。見終わって、彼氏は涙を浮かべながら私にこう言った。「俺たち、いつか田舎でのんびり暮らしてこんな夫婦になろうよ」。そのとき私は……「絶対に嫌だ」と思った。
けっしてそのドキュメンタリー自体が悪いのではない。むしろ私も、後半にかけてウルッときてしまった。ただ、別にこの夫婦のようになりたいかというと、その当時の自分の人生像からすると違った。
東京生まれ東京育ちの私は、ずっとこのまま東京で暮らしていくことを確信していた。面白そうな仕事に就いて、いろいろな人に出会って、自分の知らなかった世界に飛び込みまくるのだ！ のんびり家庭菜園生活なんて、そんな人生、刺激が足りない！ そう思っていた。
ところが、それから十年経ったいま、面白そうだと思っていた出版社の仕事を辞め、映画に出てくるよりもずっと「田舎」の集落の古民家に住み、家庭菜園をしている。当時の私にそのことを伝えてもきっと信じないだろう。
社会に出て、あらゆるジャンルの人と出会った。記者にならなければ話せなかったような政治家、著名人、憧れの人……。刺激的だった。それを捨ててまで引っ越してきたのは、「農家になりたい」という今の夫のプレゼンが上手かったからだろうか。いやそれだけではない。「面白い」や「刺激」の意味が、自分のなかで変わってきたからだと思う。
実際、古民家を修繕しながら暮らして家庭菜園なんて、まったく「のんびり」とはかけ離れている。毎日が目まぐるしく去っていく。季節や天候という人間の意にならぬものが、私たちを猛烈に揺さぶってくる。そのことが、いまはとても面白い。
結局、どんな人生を生きたいかなんて、あっという間に価値観は変わってしまう。なにを面白いと思うかも、自分の目線次第だとも感じる。
十年前の私は、東中野で元彼を冷ややかな気持ちで見ていた。今の私は、野菜をせっせと袋に詰めることが楽しい。十年後の私は、いったいどこでどんなことを考えているのだろうか。それを想像するだけで、もう面白い。
Dawn Casey-Rowe retweeted
A word of warning to our friends overseas:
This product contains zero hamburger (you have to add it) and it doesn’t actually help you make it. There’s no helper. It’s a box full of pasta, garlic powder, dehydrated cheese, and salt.
It’s also delicious.
