Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contract dial for the rest of life.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Oracle.....................
In the center of the forest,
there is an unlikely stone that remembers when the mountains were new.
there is an unlikely stone that remembers when the mountains were new.
It waits in a circle of moss like the pupil of a green eye.
You kneel and ask it a wordless question.
It answers.
"Cherish exactly who you are. For there can never be another."
-Jarod K. Anderson, from Love Notes from the Hollow Tree
Life its ownself..........................
It’s a constant reminder that character isn’t tested only by poverty and hardship, but equally—and perhaps even more dangerously—by success.
-Rob Henderson, from here
On the importance of positioning.............
While most people understand that reputation matters, few recognize how it functions as a strategic asset that either unlocks opportunities or leaves you perpetually trapped. The mechanics of this process mirror an unlikely source of wisdom: the game of billiards.
A master billiards player approaches the table with dual vision. While amateurs focus solely on pocketing the immediate shot, professionals focus on how the current shot positions them for the next one. This deceptively simple insight—that present moves determine future options—perfectly captures how reputations function in our interconnected world.
-Farnam Street, from this week's episode
very few things.............................
What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically the define what they don't know. An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
If you have to start a week...............
Sunday, March 9, 2025
One can only hope....................
Yet even as the national party drifts off the reservation, there are hopeful signs of growing anti-woke pushback in the Democrats’ modern heartlands – namely, in America’s big cities.
-Joel Kotkin, from here
Democrats focusing on effective big city governance would be a major upgrade. Just saying.
a sensitivity........................
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, as cut-and-pasted from here
Let it go.....................
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
a sacred instrument...................
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. Looking back to it as a sacred instrument carefully and not easily framed; remembering that it was throughout a work of concession and compromise; viewing it as limited to national objects; regarding it as leaving to the people and the States all power not explicitly parted with, I shall endeavor to preserve, protect, and defend it by anxiously referring to its provision for direction in every action. To matters of domestic concernment which it has intrusted to the Federal Government and to such as relate to our intercourse with foreign nations I shall zealously devote myself; beyond those limits I shall never pass.
-Martin Van Buren, from his 1837 Inaugural Address
timing..............................
If you trap the moment before its ripe
The tears of repentance youll certainly wipe
But if once you let the ripe moment go
You can never wipe off the tears of woe
The tears of repentance youll certainly wipe
But if once you let the ripe moment go
You can never wipe off the tears of woe
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