Wife: “I hate Pi Day! It’s stupid.”
Me: “Should I get a pie for us on 3/13 instead, just to protest?”
Wife: “Yes. Especially if it’s a cheesecake.”
Author: Patrick Rhone
Thich Nhat Hanh’s final mindfulness lesson: how to die peacefully – Vox
Each day I practice to let him go, by letting him be with me, within me, and with each of my conscious breaths. He is alive in my breath, in my awareness.
An Open Letter to The Ignored | Hugh MacLeod
By being “Ignored” that means nobody is watching you. That means you can do what you want, with the people you want, making a difference on your own terms.
Beatrix, age 11, prefers narrow ruled yellow legal pads and Palomino Blackwing (Pearl) pencils.
End of an era as one of my favorite bookstores closes. The owner James and his wife have another bookstore about a half hour away which is also lovely and doing well with no plans to close. I shall endeavor to visit that one more.
Also, his book blog (linked above) is great.
Beatrix, age 11, calls her first drafts “sloppy copies”.
We spent the dreary Saturday afternoon cleaning and organizing the bookshelves in our entryway. Very worthwhile. Now we can actually find the things we want to read. Progress.
Every time they upgrade the snowstorm model for this weekend, I put another one of these in the fridge.
Even the space between us, connects us.