“Be good and you’ll be lonesome.” — Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World I’ve had this quote in my mind for a decade or two, floating about in the back of my brain. It sneaks back to the front now and then, mostly as a taunt to be more adventurous. Some…
“Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti We often talk of those we’ve lost as if a part of them is still here with us. I can still hear the laughter of…
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Last night offered a small chance to see the northern lights as the skies cleared just enough to open up the universe. What are you to do with an opportunity like that but chase after it? With son and daughter as my…
We are the first double-leaf sprout, two inches out of the ground. We need rain, or we may not grow more than this. — Rumi The rain rolled in right on schedule, really, timed to mask the Aurora Borealis thoroughly and keep my mind from wandering north. Quietly scheming to drop everything and drive as…
“They’ll never be any shortage of good people in the world. All you got to do is seek them out and get as many of them as possible into your life. Keep the rest the hell out.” — Charlie Munger “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” — Jim…
When my body won’t hold me anymoreAnd it finally lets me freeWhere will I go?Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?Or tropical rain?Or snow from the heavens?Will I join with the ocean blue?Or run into a savior true?And shake hands laughingAnd walk through the night, straight to the lightHolding the love I’ve…
My spouse recently deprioritized potato chips and Diet Coke from her life. For me, I could pass the rest of my days without ever consuming either of them, but for her these were a big part of her eating ritual. You make a sandwich for lunch, you need something crunchy and salty with it. And…
Well the road rolls out like a welcome matTo a better place than the one we’re atAnd I ain’t got no kinda planBut I’ve had all of this town I can standAnd I got friends out on the coastWe can jump in the water and see what floatsWe’ve been saving for a rainy dayLet’s beat…
We treat our plans as though they are a lasso, thrown from the present around the future, in order to bring it under our command. But all a plan is—all it could ever possibly be—is a present-moment statement of intent. It’s an expression of your current thoughts about how you’d ideally like to deploy your…
“We are the sum of all the moments in our lives – all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal it.” — Thomas Wolfe The interesting thing about seeing is that you can’t go back to being oblivious to the world around you. More to the point, you learn to…
