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Expressing Priorities

“Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi We each default to our foundational identity. It’s just who we are, demonstrated in action and prioritization again and again. This is either beneficial to our current and future self or detrimental. To change requires deliberate focus on habit formation and environmental changes like not buying cookies for the…

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The Freedom of Inaction

“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out…

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Thoughts on the Scramble

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago A few days of sailing had the desired effect. The stress accumulated, overflowing and leaking out of my pores, revealed in comments and…

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Isle au Haut: A Billion Stars and Pristine Trails

“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden…

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Our Most Important Things

So easily forgotten are the most important thingsLike the melody and the moonlight in your eyesAnd a song that lasts forever, keeps on gettin’ betterAll the time— Keb’ Mo, Life Is Beautiful Walking a lot of miles lately, I’ve come to see the town I live in at ground level, turning corners into places I…