“In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.”
We are living in a world of accelerating addictiveness and increasingly I think the only way (likely lonely, squirming, and eccentric as Paul alludes) we’ll
get things doneis the continuous directed practice and improvement of willpower, productivity, flow, and exercising thereof.- Tantek Çelik, The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow
It’s an excellent essay, but it could stand to be five times as long and draw out its points with more information and analysis. I plan to spend time diving into the various wiki pages he links to later this weekend.
Susan linked to an amazing blog post titled, “REGRETS OF THE DYING“.
For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.
The post lists the top five regrets that people have as they reconcile themselves to their approaching death:
It’s a great gift to know what people think as they learn to live with their own oncoming mortality. Most of us (the lucky ones) will have to learn to die. Getting to know the territory ahead of time can only be a help to us.
Dolly got me a Lego Architecture set for the John Hancock Center in Chicago for Christmas. We took a look at it today (the day after Christmas) and built it in a few minutes. Here’s the finished product.
We finished the Lego Fallingwater a few days ago. It looks really nice and is now gracing part of one of our bookshelves.
