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O.W. Root

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O.W. Root

@owroot

Author of Modern Lives / Columnist - @mich_enjoyer, @theblaze / Style Advising - @NecktieSalvage / Steering - @foxandroot / Growing - @trunkville

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Joined July 2019

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O.W. Root
@owroot
Mar 6
Everything and everyone is saturated to the gills with political commentary, hot takes, discourse, and pissed-off snark. People and the internet are so filled with all of this they don’t really have time or space for anything else. Longtime followers know that I think this whole
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Oct 1, 2025
You look at a photo of lemons and water and it automatically makes you feel good. White, blue and yellow. Optimistic colors.
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Jul 11, 2025
The window seat on a plane is an incredible modern blessing. Imagine our ancestors getting to take in such a view. They would have been stunned, speechless. And yet, some close the shade and do what? My God. I can't understand those who shut the shade, and shut out the world.
Delicious Tacos
@Delicious_Tacos
Jul 11, 2025
I love the window seat
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Sep 13, 2024
Go to Springfield, order the cat, the whole thing, medium rare, grab a beer or two, make it three, curly fries and coleslaw, grab a chair out back, ask for the barbecue sauce, tell them you know barbecue.
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Jul 29, 2025
We were so free once before
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Nov 10, 2024
Hunter green = pure 90s
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Oct 5, 2025
You need to be surrounding yourself with soft lights, you need to be barely able to see after the sun goes down, you need to feel like you are walking through a maze of soft yellow and black, you need to be living your late nights in a dream before you even sleep.
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Jan 14, 2025
Pour a drink. No ice. Bottom shelf. Open your email. Delete 50. Respond "sounds good to me" while you are four emails behind in the thread. Look at your messages. Send a thumbs up emoji. Another one. Another one. Open twitter. Like every tweet you see.
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Mar 19, 2025
The light was different in 1995
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Feb 25, 2025
Something sad about Joann Fabrics shutting down. It's weird. It's just a fabric store. Thread. Needles. Crafts. It always has that kind of cinnamon-type smell that makes you think of craft fairs. I think it's sad in this peculiar way because it's a store your mom and grandma
Breaking911
@Breaking911
Feb 24, 2025
Joann Fabrics to close all stores nationwide after bankruptcy filing. The craft retailer, a staple since 1943, will liquidate following an asset purchase by GA Group, ending its 80-year run.
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Aug 5, 2025
The reason why people looked so cool back in the day was that they basically gave less of a shit while dressing great at the same time. Low neuroticism, great style. That's the winning combination.
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Mar 11, 2025
75% of old photos going hard is just a guy being clean shaven and reasonably fit wearing loose clothes in a nonchalant way.
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Nov 3, 2025
In 1993 escaped fugitives dressed better than 99% of guys today.
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O.W. Root
@owroot
Oct 1, 2025
This kind of woodwork on the floor is just gorgeous. Whenever I encounter it I just stop and stare.
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