Where it happens.
The things you do create the things you believe…
For many things, your attitudes came from actions that led to observations that led to explanations that led to beliefs. Your actions tend to chisel away at the raw marble of your persona, carving into being the self you experience from day to day. It doesn’t feel that way, though. To conscious experience, it feels as if you were the one holding the chisel, motivated by existing thoughts and beliefs. It feels as though the person wearing your pants performed actions consistent with your established character, yet there is plenty of research suggesting otherwise. The things you do often create the things you believe.
— Benjamin Franklin
After cancer diagnosis, Aldo Moroni asks for help finishing his final project | City Pages
We credit Aldo’s work with spawning Beatrix’s love of (and skill with) pottery. She hugged him long and hard through tears when we went to his Final Show this past weekend.
Grateful today for doing yoga as a family.
Remember, your mind can be busy but you are the boss.
Ikigai is a Japanese word that can be roughly translated into English as “a reason for being.”
It hits a note with me as I’ve been struggling to nail mine in recent weeks. Perhaps the prompts in this graphic could help.
Unicorn.
My daughter’s school hosted a US Citizenship Ceremony this morning. The whole middle school were in attendance to watch 126 people become citizens of our country. A reminder that, regardless of our current events, people still want to be part of this experiment.
My friend, writer, and author Iain Broom has re-launched his good and decent newsletter, Unslush. Great newsletter for those interested in writing and publishing.
How I do blog posts without titles
My friend Kevin asked me via email, “Is it difficult to get rid of titles on blog posts? I so envy what you’ve done…”
Well, part of the secret to that is found in my loose website building manifesto here:
I’m not building a custom theme or messing around with some premium framework. I build using one of the WordPress default themes and making customized modifications to that using a child theme (Additional CSS, FTW!!!)
The Theme I’m using on Rhoneisms is Twenty Sixteen. Another reason for using default themes is that, it supports all of the fancy features. The feature I’ll point out here is “post type”. because, it turns out, that one of the default WordPress post types is “Status”. Also, it turns out, that this post type does not display a title. So, I simply choose that as my post type
So, the way I put this into my “personal style guide” usage is that all of my “tweet style” posts are of the type “Status” and all of the regular essay style posts with titles are of the type “Standard”.
So, no special magic here. Just using the gifts Automattic has given me.