Today’s post is a reminder…mostly to myself. One month ago today, I posted an article about how I’m trying to do too much. In it, I quoted Leo Babauta’s thoughts about how we are all so worried about what we are missing that we end up missing what we already have. Here’s one of the [...]
For a little over two weeks, I’ve been participating in the Trust 30 writing challenge being run by The Domino Project. It has been a good experience, but I’m getting burned out on the constant self-evaluation. Many of the daily prompts are exactly or almost exactly the same, the wording is just different. So, I’ve [...]
The Prompt: The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson says: “Always do what you [...]
The Prompt: There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson What would you say to the person you were five years ago? What will you say to the person you’ll be in five years? (Author: Corbett Barr) The Post: [...]
The Prompt: That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which [...]
The Prompt: It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The world is powered by [...]
The Prompt: Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tracks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than [...]
The Prompt: We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson You just discovered you have fifteen minutes to live. 1. Set a timer for fifteen minutes. 2. Write the story that has to be written. [...]
Just when we were getting used to the idea of books changing from a physical thing you can hold in your hands to an electronic, digital entity that you can read on your computer, phone, or specialized book reader, along comes a brilliant company that completely changes what we think of when we think of [...]
Today, I’d like to share a few thoughts from others on what a book is, the future of books, as well as the advent of the 99 cent e-book. First, let’s start with some thoughts from Kevin Kelly at The Technium. As you’ll recall, I shared some thoughts a while back concerning the question, what [...]