Contravening a breach of the peace...........

Long John Baldry..................Don't Try To Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll

 

Because you know he would......................

 

                          more fun here

Never underestimate................................

 

................................................the power of zen.

More than quite likely.....................................

 

They call it ‘crowd control’ for a reason. If you’re in a crowd, it’s quite likely someone is trying to control you.

-Seth Godin, from here

When the word "elite" is applied to......................

 

...........to current world-wide political leadership it feels like an abuse of our language. We should reserve the word for those who truly deserve it - our greatest professional athletes.

Full story here.  Money quote here:

These three skills – attention, memory and creativity – have technical names: inhibitory control, working memory and cognitive flexibility, respectively.   They are the three core executive functions used by the brain to execute complex tasks.

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Doesn't get.......................

 

........................................better than this.

There is some truth in this..................

 

Most of us are making it up as we go, moving the goalposts continually and never settling on a specific definition of money or happiness.

-Ben Carlson, as extracted from here

and he has a pretty good imagination..............

 I cannot ever imagine a world where economic volatility is tamed and people stop making financial decisions they eventually regret – no matter how much history of past mistakes we have to study.

-Morgan Housel

pretty good reasons....................

 

     Every year at leaf-fall, Pwyll and his men rode to Arberth.  Riding through a valley five valleys from home they were like an old story Taliesin would tell.  And they had it in them to go with the story.  They had it in them, living now, riding now to Arberth, to be a tale told by a fireside in the far past, to be a tale told by a fireside in the far future.  And they would say, would sometimes say, that their only reason for being in the world was to give the world a chance to live out its own strangeness, its own danger, and its own wonder in them.

-John Moriarty, Dreamtime

thanks Rob

When YouTube...........................

 

.............................................watches you back.

Opening paragraphs...........

 

     Like everything else, the world of bodyguarding is split between the real and the phony.  Phony bodyguards are just glorified drivers, big men in suits chosen for their size and shape and appearance, not paid very much, not very useful when push comes to shove.  Real bodyguards are technicians, thinkers, trained men with experience.  They can be small, as long as they think and endure.  As long as they can be useful, when the time comes.

     I am a real bodyguard.

    Or at least, I was.

-Lee Child, Safe Enough and Other Stories

The never ending question...................

 

These developments, Chase said, raised fundamental questions: "Shall the government of this country be administered by the people, for the people, or by a privileged class, for a privileged class.

-Walter Stahr, Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival, from an 1858 speech

Homework........................

 

Withdraw from the unrest of external activities, then flee away and hide from the turmoil of inward thoughts, for they create discord.

-Meister Eckhart

More homework.....................

 

What would make cooking a spiritual practice rather than mere work is cultivating a sense for what is sacred and doing you best to bring that alive in the world of the kitchen.

-Edward Espe Brown,  No Recipe: Cooking as a Spiritual Practice

On the importance............................

 

.................of merging the longer view with a focus on the here and now.

Michael Wade's Substack is up and running.  Tune in!

problem solving.........................

 Accessing the problem-solving power of your mind is not about pushing; it’s about stopping. Mental processes are at their most effective during times of stillness, but we’ve stopped giving ourselves that opportunity. Because we keep forcing our minds to process, we never give them space to think, and by doing so, we take away their ability to solve.

-as cut-and-pasted from here

Unfortunately.............................

 

There is something here, and time will tell what exactly that is.

-Tyler Cowen, from here

Figuring out the future..................................

 

.................................is difficult at best.