# friend part (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover friend part.

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## [The "Distance of Excessive Reverence"](https://windmillslayer.substack.com/p/the-distance-of-excessive-reverence)

_2026-08-15 · Christopher Benson · Slayer of Windmills_

Why we put our heroes on pedestals (and probably shouldn’t)

## [Winnie-the-Pooh's Guide to Middle Age](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/winnie-the-poohs-guide-to-middle)

_2026-08-07 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

What a locked cleaners' cupboard and a broken Friends mug taught me about self-acceptance.

## [Why The Hell Do I Do This?](https://windmillslayer.substack.com/p/why-the-hell-do-i-do-this)

_2026-07-24 · Christopher Benson · Slayer of Windmills_

I’ve been putting up these Substack essays about art and the artworld — and about my own life as a painter — for a couple of years now.

## [When Life Tells the Art What to Do](https://windmillslayer.substack.com/p/when-life-tells-the-art-what-to-do)

_2026-07-18 · Christopher Benson · Slayer of Windmills_

My Artist Friends — Part Two

## [sunday evening](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/sunday-evening)

_2026-07-12 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

Some losses happen all at once, others arrive one ordinary Sunday evening.

## [Mr Burns, a drug dealer and a day in court taught me the same lesson about human beings](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/mr-burns-a-drug-dealer-and-a-day)

_2026-07-03 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

We're all far more than the worst thing we've done, or the best thing we've achieved.

## [The Problem of an Artist's Livelihood](https://windmillslayer.substack.com/p/the-problem-of-an-artists-livelihood)

_2026-07-01 · Christopher Benson · Slayer of Windmills_

Responding to a piece on this same topic by another arts writer

## [Building the New System in the Shell of the Old](https://windmillslayer.substack.com/p/building-the-new-system-in-the-shell)

_2026-06-26 · Christopher Benson · Slayer of Windmills_

My artist friends — Part 1

## [passed](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/passed)

_2026-06-19 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

Lessons, longing and what remains unspoken.

## [The Career Map of an Art World Outsider](https://windmillslayer.substack.com/p/the-career-map-of-an-art-world-outsider-cdc)

_2026-06-17 · Christopher Benson · Slayer of Windmills_

Part 3

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_2026-06-17 · **Sponsored**_

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## [nothing in particular](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/nothing-in-particular)

_2026-06-13 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

A quiet story about belonging.

## [When young people stop believing there's a place for them in the village](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/when-young-people-stop-believing)

_2026-05-30 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

From a tribal headdress to a housing crisis, and what connects them.

## [The Goodness of the New and the Free](https://windmillslayer.substack.com/p/the-goodness-of-the-new-and-the-free)

_2026-05-30 · Christopher Benson · Slayer of Windmills_

I seem to be on a tear this week with these almost daily posts.

## [Money and Art](https://windmillslayer.substack.com/p/money-and-art)

_2026-05-28 · Christopher Benson · Slayer of Windmills_

On speaking about the unspeakable

## [get yourself and your dog a spa day](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/get-yourself-and-your-dog-a-spa-day)

_2026-05-22 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

By the third Thursday afternoon people had stopped pretending the jokes about the dog were only jokes.

## [my friend C (part 2 of 2)](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/my-friend-c-part-2-of-2)

_2026-05-09 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

My therapist said guilt makes people behave strangely. I asked her what that meant.

## [my friend C (part 1 of 2)](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/my-friend-c-part-1-of-2)

_2026-05-08 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

My therapist told me to start writing things down instead of endlessly churning them over in my head.

## [A man once told me he could go fly fishing inside his head](https://wayneexton.substack.com/p/a-man-once-told-me-he-could-go-fly)

_2026-05-01 · Wayne Exton · page 178_

From Motorola stickers to existential reflection