‘Give up and don’t miss out’

    

Just a quickie edition of The Magpie Mason to direct your attention to new episodes on two of my favorite YouTube channels, both of which I have recommended to you before. These were posted within the past few days, and they inadvertently share a common theme.

On his Daily Masonic Progress channel, the brilliant Bro. Darren Allatt of Australia shares the “Masonic Secret to Being Prepared for Anything,” in which he explains Freemasonry’s teachings on mental, physical, and spiritual readiness for life’s unexpected vicissitudes. Watch. It’s not even nine minutes long.

On his nearly always entertaining The Chap’s Guide channel, the affable and ever supportive Mr. Ash Jones in England reveals the “Things I’ve Given Up in My Life to Make It Better.” Not a Freemason, but probably ought to be, Jones lists a number of attitude corrections he embraced with the wisdom that accompanies advancing age. Less than nineteen minutes, plus you’ll see his modest cabin in the woods.

Enjoy them both.

     

‘The Grand Master is a Chap’

    

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Prince Michael of Kent is the subject of Wednesday night’s Chap’s Guide video.

This study of His Royal Highness’ sartorial triumphs—look at those ties!—makes no mention of his Masonic life, but you know he is one of two members of the royal family affiliated with Freemasonry. HRH Prince Michael is the M.W. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales. If I’m not mistaken, the video misstates details of his ancestry and the HRH style, but here it’s the clothes that make the man.

(In real life, it’s a bad week for Prince Michael. His son-in-law, Thomas Kingston, died Sunday.)

This video is the second in two weeks to mention Freemasons. On February 14, host Ash Jones critiqued the dressing style of a Bro. Ryan in Australia. (Click here and forward to the ten-minute mark.)

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As I understand it, if there’s a third video highlighting a Mason, Jones himself will have to be initiated.