Daniel
Been caring for this little tree for a while and hope I’m not messing it up.
Ōkataina
“Count the good days. Tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you.”
“Is it ‘fuck sake’ or ‘fucks sake’? It’s for a work email so it needs to be right.”
“Nobody ever says what the lie is.”
TIL the thirteen letters of “eleven plus two” also spells “twelve plus one” also equals 13.
TIL that umop apisdn is upside down, upside down.
Having the intention to do morning zazen is good, but having the alarm clock across the other side of the bedroom is better.
In a lake rn
“The most important relationship you have is with yourself, with this voice in your head that’s always chattering and never shuts up … If you want to see what the quality of your life actually is, put down the drink, put down the computer, put down the smart phone, put down the book, put down the headphones, and just sit by yourself doing nothing — and then you will know what the quality of your life actually is.”
“A few years ago I made a shift in my thinking about fitness — a shift from trying to get enough exercise to trying to fill my days with movement.” philipbrewer.net
The idea that ‘movement’ should take precedence over ‘exercise’. Just doing, instead of having to do.
“To realise that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences for defying all of it is to achieve a level of contentment.” michaelmalice.com 📚
“Thinky fun time.”
“Invest your entire being into the things you care about and you no longer need to wonder about the meaning of life. Meaning becomes the air you breathe.”
Took a walk on one of the local maunga. Nice to feel some sunshine.
An answer to the glass half empty / glass half full question, via Kirk.is: “It depends on your last action with it. If you drank from it it’s half empty, but if you filled it it’s half full.”
(Unless of course you’re an engineer, in which case the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.)
Bear, Midnight Pub, Listed, Collected Notes and Read Write.as are five simple blogging platforms.
This guy. Eighteen soon.
“One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Covid-19 is the latest phenomenon to fulfil a weird and growing appetite for doom among the populations of developed countries. We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it.”
I’m part way through Spartacus and it’s like watching a really long oil painting with an incredible chin. 🍿
Chaos of course being another name for entropy.
“Chaos, within order, within chaos, within higher order.”
Anyone who grew up in NZ will have a Holden story. I’ve had fun in plenty and owned a few, and it looks like I got one of the last ones.
It all starts with zazen.
My boy set my phone timer alarm to klaxon and every time it goes off it freaks me the hell out.
I have a dream that I will one day work in a place where I will not be judged by the contents of my lunchbox but by the content of my character.
Pizza socks.
Paperbacks preferred.
“It’s easy to build up a body of work if you keep a collection of limbs.”
“Carpe noctum.”
On today’s bike ride there were lots of little wild pigs rooting around. One burst out of the scrub and ran beside me squealing for a bit. Another one got grumpy.
Bret Weinstein says humour is important for humans, not just as frivolous entertainment but as a deeper evolutionary adaptation which enables us to tackle difficult topics.