Ryan Holiday: Nobody is thinking about you. They're too busy thinking of themselves.

Columbo Eats

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From the Diary of Virginia Woolf

 

Ray Bradbury

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Progress is a pure illusion, it occurs only in the sphere of matter, but the spirit undeviatingly degrades. What our contemporaries consider as achievements are actually shameful vices… The end of the modern world is just the end of an illusion. — René Guénon

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

 Henry David Thoreau

Cucumbers!

 

Ryan Holiday: I’m not saying going for a walk will solve all your problems, I’m just saying there’s almost no problem that’s going to be made worse by going for a walk.

The Real

 

Nap Time in Kindergarten

 

Zappa!

 

For the LOVE of Letters & Love Letters

 

Early Voting Woonsocket Rhode Island

Early Voting for the General Election

***new location*** City Hall 3rd Floor (Board of Canvassers Office)

 

Bring a valid photo ID

 

November 5th General Election

• October 16th through November 4th at 4:00PM
• 8:30AM-4:30*PM Weekdays except *4:00PM on final day of Early Voting
• CLOSED on weekends

Jameela Jamil

As the ancient proverb goes: “Sense has been chasing me all my life, but I am faster.”

I have never found it especially interesting to be a part of this industry, to just sell you things, and show off a projection of a perfect human with a perfect life. I’ve always wanted to connect with other people. To be raw, to learn, to laugh, to cringe and shout with you. I really just want to chat.

You may not know, that in the decade before I became an actor, a podcaster, and a somewhat intense presence online, I was a journalist, and a columnist for women’s magazines. In fact, it is my beloved former editor

Farrah @Substack

who has brought me here.

Jameela Jamil

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. CYNTHIA OZICK

Spoiler: in trauma recovery, you are gonna surprise yourself. You are gonna find compassion & strength & willingness & creativity & toughness & hope-- yeah, I said it, hope-- that you would never have imagined in your darkest moments.That happens. I've seen it. Daily.

 Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

@DrDoyleSays

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art. Toni Morrison

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

 

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. Leo Tolstoy

Jung