Calm also has a coefficient – Seth’s Blog
Being up-to-date on the news is a trap and a scam. Five minutes a day is all you need.
Statuses
Michael Wade reminds us that sometimes you head north in order to go south.
Perhaps another indication that time is not a straight line, it’s a circle
To those that need to hear it: This country is full of big wide open spaces. Ones with plenty of distance between you and anyone else. Perhaps now is the perfect time for you and yours to see them.
“Hey guys, I’m your mom! …Hey guys, I’m your mom! …Hey guys, I’m your mom!”
— Beatrix, age 12, addressing her fish as she feeds them. “They have a three second memory. If I don’t keep saying it, they’ll forget.”
What we believe in…
Personally, I’m enjoying the polite bow I’ve decided to adopt in lieu of handshaking. This is how one greets another at my Zen Center as well (in the Japanese tradition). When I offer it, and it is returned, the interaction makes the world seem a little more zen to me.
Rebecca Toh on being kinder than necessary.
Beatrix, age 12, has requested I put together a playlist of “old timey” music for us to listen to in the car — “like, Billy Joel and Journey and Queen. Making me feel simultaneously both old and proud.
Today’s example of how to read a book:
