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The beginning...

Well, welcome to the Painted Porch, home of the Southern Stoic. Let me introduce myself. I’m Chuck, some of y’all know me as Chief Chuck. (I’ve got another Substack called Rudder and Compass, click that if you’d like leadership stuff). I’m a 60 year old Navy veteran, spent 24 years working on and flying airplanes around the world.

Now? Well, I work for the Navy as a civilian, and decided I’d like to expand my writings and musings to include some thoughts and philosophies I’ve picked up along the way.

I grew up in Northeast Georgia and my father (Pop) was a blue collar worker for the phone company, married my Mom in his early 20s and they had me in 1963. He was one of 9 kids, my Grandfather was a farmer, who dabbled in the art of moonshine in the hey-days of Gumlog Georgia whiskey running.

As I started learning more and more about Stoic philosophy, it occured to me that a lot of the things I recalled my Pop telling me and teaching me wasn’t much different than the stoics, just worded differently, obviously. Those were things his Father had told him and if you start stacking southernisms and ways of life with the Bible and the Stoics, you’ll soon find there isn’t a lot of difference.

That’s what we’re going to do here, we’re going to explore some of the biggest lessons my Pop taught me and compare and contrast how those stack up and how we can use those and move forward.

Some of these emails will be long, most won’t and hopefully, they entertain and educate. I’m not going to charge money to subscribe, not selling anything, just wanting to pay it forward to help pass along some wisdom.

Thanks for stopping by, if you’re a subscriber, thanks and if you think anyone else would enjoy this, send ‘em my way.

Y’all have a good week and next week, we’ll get into it full on.

Until then, I’ll leave you with this as a teaser for next week….do you know how to shine your shoes? Better yet, do you know why?

See y’all on the Porch.

Chuck