I didn't go either...........

 

     Trudeau briefly worked for a Broadway producer, and when that project fizzled out, he volunteered to do some graphic art for the reelection campaign of the New York City mayor,  John Lindsay.  "I knew his nephew George from St. Paul's," he tells me.  "That summer is memorable for one thing I didn't do—drive up to Woodstock with everyone else in Lindsay's office.  I'd heard it was going to rain."

-Joshua Kendall, Trudeau and Doonesbury: A Biography:  The Cartoonist Who Turned The News Into Art

reversing........................

 

     Our world, and each of our lives, quite suddenly became overwhelming technocratic, sucking millions into the simulation.  Scientists like to say that human knowledge is doubling every twelve months.  That is explosive, exponential growth.  But let's clarify that:  Complicated knowledge is doubling every twelve months.  Complex knowledge, which must be lived in real time and can't be discovered or stored by computers, is not increasing at all.  This asymmetry explains why we're bombarded with ingenious solutions to age-old problems but never seem to make progress toward greater happiness.  In fact, it's the reverse:  We are losing our sense of life's meaning faster and faster.

-Arthur C. Brooks,  The Meaning of Your Life

decided............................

 

      The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also of life.  Once the lave slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil—rich, fertile soil.

     She wasn't a black hole, she decided.  She was a volcano.  And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself.  She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.

     She could plant a forest inside herself.

-Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

thank you, David

heavy responsibility..................

 

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp.  The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

-Ursula K. Le Guin

technically speaking....................

 

     As an adult, I'll have to come to comprehend the fact that the world, technically speaking, is too vast to be conveyed by language.  It's too grand and too horrific, to complex; too full of love and weather and brutality and governments and movies, to name the first phenomena that come to mind; too overwhelmed by its own history (The Great Vowel Shift! Shintoism! The invention of gunpowder and the printing press and electricity!), not to mention its hopes and fears for the future.

-Michael Cunningham, Unsayable: A Life in Writing

Life.....................

 

      Life, he decided, was never a question of accumulating material things, nor in the struggle for reputation, but in the widening and deepening of perception, increasing the sensitivity of the faculties, of an awareness of the world in which one lives.

-Louis L'Amour, Flint

Trying to learn......................

 

...............................something every day.

Vacation.......................

 

...............................appears to be over.

Good questions all...............

 

You only get one life and you’re going to burn the days either way, so the real question is: What excites you and interests you? What makes you feel curious and alive, perhaps even joyful? What is so "worth it" that you're not worried about the tradeoffs, the hard work, the hassle?

-James Clear, from here

a baseline.................

 

Best practices guarantee average performance. They are literally the prescriptions of others that limit variation and get you to a baseline of performance. Following them virtually ensures that you will be working harder and harder just to "keep up." To be the best, you have to do things that no one can prescribe.

-Shane Parrish, from here