Simplify
For there are only three kinds of good. So if a thing is not virtuous, useful, or pleasant, it’s not really good. So fagetaboutit! Simplify your life by throwing out all the things you have…
Category: USA
Today’s One-Liner (#326)
My greatest skill has been to want but little. –Henry David Thoreau, in Tim Flinders, Henry David Thoreau: Spiritual and Prophetic Writings, 15
Home Sweet Home
Folk music was a reality of a more brilliant dimension. It exceeded all human understanding, and if it called out to you, you could disappear and be sucked into it. I felt right at home…
Today’s One-Liner (#316)
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you –Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone, Highway 61 Revisited
Today’s One-Liner (#312)
[Y]ou know the greatest of all Balzac’s novels is Cousin Bette. –Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg, The Letters, 392
Four Questions
How many hours do you think you waste every week complaining about things that happened to you that are out of your control? How much time do you spend worrying about things that might happen…
Today’s One-Liner (#304)
Do you have any idea how powerful an hour a day is? –Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Expanding the Circle
When we live narrowly unto ourselves, we have only one person working for us. When we are habitually thoughtful of others, a great many people are working and pulling for us. –David Dunn, Try Giving…
An Exchange on America
The following arrived in my in-box today as I am a subscriber to journalist Matt Taibbi‘s Substack. Monty Python’s “What Have the Romans… Reader Paul E.–Are you a card-carrying Exceptionalist, Matt, that you believe this…
Catholic Jack
As Kerouac aged, he reclaimed the Catholic identity he had inherited from his devout parents, although to the reader, the influence was often muffled under the Benzedrine and booze-fueled bacchanalia of his youth, especially when…