A view of life and commercial real estate from Newark and Licking County, Ohio
If Donald Trump creates the position, I volunteer to be Secretary of Feeding People to Komodo Dragons. The first round of tossings into the lizard-pit will involve “experts” who still use grossly snobbish terms like “fringe” and “contrarian” to describe beliefs held by most of the population . . .
-Matt Taibbi, from here
The kind and worthy wisdom we need involves learning to embrace the truth that we will never master ourselves, our lives, or our worlds, though we can learn to view the concept of mastery as what it is: a toxic fantasy that clashes with the reality of our minds and our nature.
We don't need perfection, and we don't need to land upon one final, objective truth.
We need to respect our own unique struggles and our own subjective truths, acknowledging that they will grow and change like the living natural things they are.
-Jarod K. Anderson, Something In The Woods Loves You
People think we live in a world of politics, society, norms, and news. But none of it is real. They're just interpersonal drama. They're the noisy waste product of unhealthy minds.
I do not think that a wise man can possibly be free from every perturbation of the mind.
The world doesn’t need
another hard-nosed profession. It needs one that acquires clout through
competence and caring.
Predict that the DOGE weekly live streams listing all the things they are cutting from the federal budget will garner larger rating than any of the news shows on TV.
-Chris Lynch, from here
........................Frustration is bargaining with reality, hoping it will change.
........................................recurring daydream:
By undertaking a wholesale
re-org, you can change the default status of a unit from “keep doing what you
did last year” to “justify your continued existence.”
We are the gatekeepers of our own meaning,
Humans need help, yet too many of us have accepted the idea that it's a person failing to seek it.
You can't think your way out of depression any more than you can think your way out of drowning.
Seeking and accepting help is a skill, and it's a skill that we are not taught to value. In fact we are taught to shun it.
I will have gained more in the looking than I lost through not finding.
-Jarod K. Anderson, a few wee excerpts from Something In The Woods Loves You
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