Rhoneisms

The more I talk to, read about, and really listen to the way they process problems and come up with practical solutions, the more I’m convinced that our current generation of kids 18 and younger have all of this figured out and we should just hand the world over to them.

Difference is a blessing, not a challenge. We define ourselves by knowing other people. We know our world by learning about difference. What is the word we often use? Tolerance. Is that a positive notion? Not really. ‘For the time being, I will tolerate you?’ I’m against that concept. It means difference is a threat. Difference is a blessing and you don’t tolerate a blessing. You embrace it.

— Mohammad Mahallati

Plans. We have them.

About to taste a very old bottle of Jameson.

Parked in the lot of my daughter’s school is a brand new burnt orange Audi Q3 already adorned with Ilhan Omar and equality stickers. This tells you everything you need to know about my daughter’s school. 

Don’t yuck someone else’s yum.

— Beatrix, age 12.

Gosh, Mo Perry is a gift to us all.

I worry that in the absence of the real, nourishing pleasure of togetherness, we’re increasingly turning to the more toxic, shallow pleasure of judgement and moral superiority. 

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The ordinary is more important than the extraordinary. The extraordinary needs the ordinary to exist. If everything were extraordinary, it would just be ordinary.

Be surprised and delighted by the extraordinary but let it be rare. Find your comfort and solace in the ordinary.

Autumn here in Minnesota lasted for about 10 days before our first major snowfall of the year.