life its ownself.....................

 

On a long enough timescale, everything is transitory.  As we work our way through the detritus and minutia of life, we should not lose sight of that.

-Barry Ritholtz

morning musings...........................

 

.....What would an elder do at a time like this?

Something old and something new...............

 Ugliness sold as beauty; lies sold as truth; discrimination sold as diversity. Un-ideas.

-via this Joel Hirst post

Fifty years ago.........................

................................at the book store:

The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.  It is always true that love and will become more difficult in a transitional age; and ours is an era of radical transition.  The old myths and symbols by which we oriented ourselves are gone, anxiety is rampant;  we cling to each other and try to persuade ourselves that what we feel is love;  we do not will because we are afraid that if we choose one thing or one person we'll lose the other, and we are too insecure to take that chance.  The bottom then drops out of the conjunctive emotions and processes—of which love and will are two of the foremost examples.  The individual is forced to turn inward;  he becomes obsessed with the new form of the problem of identity, namely, Even-if-I-know-who-I-am, I-have-no-significance.  I am unable to influence others.  The next step is apathy.  And the following step is violence.  For no human being can stand the perpetually numbing experience of his own powerlessness.

-Rollo May, from the opening paragraph to the Introduction to his 1969 book, Love And Will

I am guessing (tell you later) that, despite the tone of this paragraph, the book will actually be optimistic about our chances.

The passing of a transformative man........

........................He wasn't always my favorite, and then he was.

Transitions..........................

Transformative.............................

“This I know: the mind, left to itself, repeats the same stories, the same loops.  Mostly ones that don't serve us.  So what's practical, what's transformative, is to consciously choose a thought.  Then practice it again and again.  With emotion, with feeling, with acceptance.   Lay down the synaptic pathways until the mind starts playing it automatically.  Do this with enough intensity over time and the mind will have no choice.  That's how it operates.  Where do you think your original loops came from?” 
-Kamal Ravikant

thanks Nicholas   #65 on this list

Gettin' there.......................................

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Transitions........................................

Nevermind, I think I'll just take my car.....

courtesy of

Slackers of the World, Unite.........

Megan McArdle points out that the road to success often includes wrong turns, dead ends and rest stops.  Two wee excerpts:

After nearly flunking out of both high school and college, I realized it was much easier to go to class, and do my work, than to endure the inevitable denouement of slacking.

When the prodigal sons return to the fold, they often bring with them valuable information about the outside world.

The natural way of things.......................

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