# nine years (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nine years. Page: Feed: --- ## [Lessons learned from a summer spent working outdoors](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/lessons-learned-from-a-summer-spent) _2026-08-14 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ What being a gardener through five heatwaves has taught me ## [The Fastest Way to Lose a Title](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/the-fastest-way-to-lose-a-title) _2026-08-13 · Ryan Sweeney · The Inner Game_ No man has kept this title since Federer in 2008. The reason has less to do with the body than with what the title does to attention. ## [The Fastest Marathoner in History Just Finished 12th](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/the-fastest-marathoner-in-history) _2026-08-06 · Ryan Sweeney · The Inner Game_ In Vienna he ran a marathon in 1:59:40. Last month in Brazil he ran 2:18 and thanked the crowd at the finish. On his face, the two races look the same. ## [The Sea, The Sea](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/the-sea-the-sea) _2026-08-04 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ Back in it, thinking about it ## [The Fastest Lap Is the Last One](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/the-fastest-lap-is-the-last-one) _2026-07-30 · Ryan Sweeney · The Inner Game_ The distance finals run all week at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. What happens after the bell says something about your own reserves. ## [What If He's Right?](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/what-if-hes-right) _2026-07-27 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ For years the only voice in my head was his. I doubted my memory, my feelings, my sanity. Then I kept going back to the very person who broke my reality, asking him to give it back. ## [The Best Cyclist Alive Wonders Why He's Still Here](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/the-best-cyclist-alive-wonders-why) _2026-07-23 · The Inner Game_ Pogačar will likely win his fifth Tour de France on Sunday. What he said after last year's hardest stage explains how he does it. ## [She Was Like a Mother to Me](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/she-was-like-a-mother-to-me) _2026-07-16 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ She lived in our home for nine years. She was like a mother to me. She was also a covert narcissist. Here is how I finally asked her to leave, and how I turned that pain into purpose. ## [You Can Carry Others Without Carrying Their Weight](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/you-can-carry-others-without-carrying) _2026-07-16 · Ryan Sweeney · The Inner Game_ The World Cup final is Sunday. Here's the Inner Game truth about playing for more than yourself ## [2 Things You Have to Protect (When Living With or Leaving a Narcissist)](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/2-things-you-have-to-protect-when) _2026-07-14 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ I told him everything. My fears, my dreams, my childhood trauma. I thought I was building intimacy. I was handing him a road map. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mg7TDRD0TvDf) _2026-07-14 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [At Least He's Not Like My Ex](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/at-least-hes-not-like-my-ex) _2026-07-12 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ You can't spot a narcissist on the first date. So stop hunting for red flags, and start doing this instead. ## [The Penalty Messi Missed, and the Game He Won](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/the-penalty-messi-missed-and-the) _2026-07-09 · The Inner Game_ What Tuesday night in Atlanta, and the 2022 final before it, teach about getting out of your own way. ## [Chaos and Creation in the Backyard](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/chaos-and-creation-in-the-backyard) _2026-07-09 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ This is what my back garden looks and feels like... ## [Your Empathy Is a Diamond. Stop Handing It Out Like Pennies.](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/your-empathy-is-a-diamond-stop-handing) _2026-07-03 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ There is one thing the narcissist does better than we ever have. They know the exact value of what they are holding. We give ours away for free. ## [The Long Game Lives in Each Moment](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/the-long-game-lives-in-each-moment) _2026-07-02 · Ryan Sweeney · The Inner Game_ The Tour. The Open. The World Cup Final. Big stages reward small moments of attention. ## [One Day It Will All Make Sense](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/one-day-it-will-all-make-sense) _2026-06-29 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ The day the struggle finally made sense. And why I would not change one minute of it. ## [A Mother's Love Is Not Enough](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/a-mothers-love-is-not-enough) _2026-06-27 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ I thought my love could protect my children from their narcissistic father. I thought staying was how I shielded them. I was wrong. And it took my own grown children to finally show me why. ## [Bjorn Borg and the Cost of Control](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/bjorn-borg-and-the-cost-of-control) _2026-06-25 · Ryan Sweeney · The Inner Game_ He'd won 11 Grand Slams. Then he walked away without explanation. ## [Would You Prefer We Were Still Together, or Do You Enjoy Your Peace?](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/would-you-prefer-we-were-still-together) _2026-06-25 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ Six years after I finally got free, my ex narcissist sent me that text. He thought he was just asking a simple question. He had no idea he was answering it. ## [Other people's gardens](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/other-peoples-gardens) _2026-06-24 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ Aka learning to say yes... ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4HXtlGQChEIJ) _2026-06-24 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [Thank You for NOT Answering My Prayers](https://passagetopeace.substack.com/p/thank-you-for-not-answering-my-prayers) _2026-06-23 · Marcia Williams, LPC · Passage to Peace_ For years I begged God to save my marriage. He stayed silent. I thought He had abandoned me. Instead, He was building something I did not yet have the words to pray for. ## [The Other Pond](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/the-other-pond) _2026-06-19 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ It's not mine, but I love it so... ## [Why the Best Make It Look Easy](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/why-the-best-make-it-look-easy) _2026-06-18 · Ryan Sweeney · The Inner Game_ Plus: Watch Tim Gallwey distill a lifetime of wisdom into 15 minutes on one of the world's biggest stages ## [The World Cup Final That Psychology Still Studies](https://theinnergame74.substack.com/p/the-world-cup-final-that-psychology) _2026-06-11 · Ryan Sweeney · The Inner Game_ What happens when Self 1 hijacks the biggest stage of your life. ## [Never alone, often lonely](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/never-alone-often-lonely) _2026-06-11 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ Working solo, drifting away from the friendships that offer sanity and connection ## [Coming home in colour](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/coming-home-in-colour) _2026-06-05 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ Why returning from holiday can be just as good as going in the first place ## [Right back to it](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/right-back-to-it) _2026-05-12 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ It's time to get back to work, albeit steadily ## [No plans today](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/no-plans-today) _2026-05-07 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ No planning for the garden? Fine. Elsewhere, not so much... ## [Out the front, part three](https://joeminihane.substack.com/p/out-the-front-part-three) _2026-04-27 · Joe Minihane · a nature memoir_ The greatest time of year is here ## [After nine years, Ninja has merged support for the GNU Make jobserver](https://thebrokenrail.com/2025/06/30/ninja-jobserver.html) _2025-06-30 · TheBrokenRail · TheBrokenRail_ Over nine years ago, on April 27, 2016, an issue was opened on the Ninja GitHub issue tracker requesting support for the GNU Make jobserver. Now, after multiple failed pull requests and a few soft forks , it has finally been added and released . And I promise you: this is awesome! What does this solve? Ninja is a build system like GNU Make : you give it the list of files you want created (the… ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QowiDeCv898S) _2025-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [The challenge of updating InsydeH2O UEFI with Linux](https://thebrokenrail.com/2024/09/29/the-challenge-of-insyde-h2o.html) _2024-09-29 · TheBrokenRail · TheBrokenRail_ Fun fact about me: I am the weirdo who always updates the UEFI even though it is not technically necessary. It just makes me feel better to know everything is up to date. Particularly because every update’s changelog always lists an impressive collection of security bug fixes. The problem is that my laptop does not support updating the UEFI from within Linux. Lenovo does not submit updates to LVFS…