Made this @kottke linked simple Mac & Cheese recipe for Beatrix tonight. She gives it a major thumbs-up: http://kottke.org/17/01/a-super-simple-recipe-for-creamy-mac-cheese
Thought 00196
If you all had any idea how often I look across our dining room table and fall in love with @bethanyg all over again…
It’s a lot.
Rhone Koan — Meaningful Work
Not all work will be meaningful. Some will be meaningful to others but not for you. Some, will be drudgery. Some, will be necessary. Some will just be the thing you have to do until the next thing you have to do comes along until finally, after so much just-stuff, something will come along that is meaningful until, eventually, you’re done with that and doing the next thing you do because it’s just the thing you have to do. The everyday meaningful work is very rare and even then is punctuated by small bursts of just-stuff that you have to do to support the meaningful. But, the true meaning of work will come when one accepts that all work is meaningful work and none of it is and that both of these are simultaneously true.
Quote 00195
Rather than thus consent to establish hell upon earth, — to be a party to this establishment, — I would touch a match to blow up earth and hell together. As I love my life, I would side with the Light and let Dark Earth roll from under me, calling my mother and my brother to follow me.
— Henry David Thoreau, Journals, May 29th, 1854
Link 00194
The always astute @danielnesbit revisits a James Baldwin passage about the only fact we have: http://danielnesbit.net/blog/2017/1/10/the-only-fact-we-have
Link 00193
The always smart @cjchilvers brings some updates and corrections to his rules for online publishing: http://cjchilvers.com/blog/my-rules-for-publishing-2017-edition
Answer the why.
Answer the why. With every choice you make, with every thing you do, if you can’t answer the why, why bother?
Thought 00192
Pen and paper is never acquired by anyone but you.
Shot on January 07, 2017 at 07:43PM
Thought 00191
If you wanted to have a conversation about something other than the weather, you shouldn’t have talked to a Minnesotan in January.