I hope you all have a good holiday, get to spend some time with your loved ones, to look back on the good parts of the year that’s ending, and find yourself filled with pleasant hopes for the one about to unfold. (I’ll go back to cynical and grumpy in a day or two, don’t worry.) Read more →
Tag: optimism
Music For Broken People
This mix probably should speak for itself, but when I have I ever let something like that stop me from sticking my two cents in? We start off with the Canadian Music Icon of my university days, Mr. Jerry “Jerry Jerry” Woods, and his orchestra. He’s giving some helpful advice from one broken person to another, but doing it painfully… Read more →
The last birthday post
You all saw the message the universe sent me today, right? Your positive omens don’t get more explicit than that. Read more →
A Very Happy Thought
There is some conventional wisdom that experience brings a certain necessary cynicism. That having seen it all before removes the shine from life. That there are always some disappointments, and they accrete over time into a dull patina between us and our experience of the world. Me, I think that’s certainly understandable, but not necessary. And today, I think that… Read more →
From Russell’s Autobiography
I am learning much about growing old. Thirty-five years ago I was lately married, childless, very happy, and beginning to taste the joys of success. Family appeared to me as an external power hampering to freedom: the world, to me, was a world of individual adventure. I wanted to think my own thoughts, find my own friends. … I felt… Read more →
