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
Monday, September 2, 2024
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.
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
Sunday, September 1, 2024
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.
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