“Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.”
―Jack London
Statuses
“If you look at what this country has accomplished, only using half of its talent, just look at the potential for the future. I’m enormously bullish on America over the future in part because we, by some rather stupid decisions, essentially put half our talent on the sidelines.”
— Warren Buffett, Feminist.
This time of year in Minnesota, all conversations include talk of the weather… Back to single digit highs today. Otherwise known as back to normal.
My friend Levi reminds us that the best way to make something is to start making it. Start now.
Once the pain recedes (and it will, in both cases), if you’ve held on, you’ll have something to show for the pain. If you’ve given up, you won’t.” — How to hold on, and when to give up by the ever wise Annie Mueller
My friend Shawn’s new book, The Dissection of Vertebrates is out today. I was a beta reader for the manuscript and provided a blurb. It’s great!
One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite musical artists. The Hammock Papers celebrates the birthday of Donald Fagen of Steely Dan. No static at all!
Warren Buffet’s breakfast allowance is based on how he feels his investments are doing.
“We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, and we got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
— Woodstock by Joni Mitchell. She didn’t actually go to the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. She only heard about it and was inspired to capture its spirit better than anyone who had.
Vision does not require the ability to see. Only the ability to dream.
I’m pretty bad at remembering to promote my own stuff but, if you are looking for a no-nonsense practical guide to meditation and mindfulness, get Mindfulness for Mere Mortals. It’s only $5.