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from How to Keep House while Drowning by KC Davis, Chapter 6: "... your home is an inanimate object .... it doesn't deserve to be cared for. You are a person. You deserve to be cared for. ..."
| tomo sina li ijo moli tomo sina li wile ala olin sina jan sina wile olin a! |
(semi-literally: "Your home is a dead thing. Your home does not need love. You are a person. You need love!") - ^z - 2024-09-10
- Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 16:23:34 (EDT)
| "You have to be smart, but not too smart, to put in the years!" |
(or more literally, "In the context of your working for a long time, you want to be smart, but you don't want to be hugely smart!")
sina pali e tenpo suli la sina wile sona
taso sina wile ala sona suli
(Chris Mark, as quoted by Michael Lewis in "The Canary") - ^z - 2024-09-09
- Monday, September 09, 2024 at 21:42:21 (EDT)
🥚
I am only an egg.
| mi sike mama taso |
(from Robert A Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land; cf Hurry Patiently (2008-12-14), Waiting Is (2011-01-17), Brightly, Brightly, and with Beauty (2012-06-25), Pure Waiting (2023-06-23), ...) - ^z - 2024-09-06
- Friday, September 06, 2024 at 08:08:42 (EDT)
| There are two ways to feel rich. Have more. Want less. |
| pilin sina li jo e mani mute la nasin tu li lon o jo e mute o wile e lili |
(cf More Fun Less Stuff (2002-10-01), ...) - ^z - 2024-09-04
- Wednesday, September 04, 2024 at 11:28:13 (EDT)
"Rest is a Right,
not a Reward!"
If you need Rest, then Rest
Others may not take that away
Rest is good
sina wile lape la o lape
jan ante li ken ala weka e ni
lape li pona
(cf Chapter 24 of How to Keep House while Drowning by KC Davis) - ^z - 2024-09-02
- Tuesday, September 03, 2024 at 13:56:52 (EDT)
🌱
🌱
| The Smallest Good Is as Good as the Greatest Good |
🌱
| pona lili li pona suli pona suli li pona sewi |
(cf How to Keep House while Drowning by KC Davis, Chapter 22: "Good enough is perfect.") - ^z - 2024-08-30
- Friday, August 30, 2024 at 07:33:36 (EDT)
💕
| Things don't have meaning. People have meaning. |
💕
| ijo li jo ala e kon jan li jo e kon |
(cf How to Keep House while Drowning by KC Davis, Chapter 5: "... care tasks are morally neutral, mess has no inherent meaning. ... Dishes cannot make meaning—only people can.") - ^z - 2024-08-29
- Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 09:56:05 (EDT)
💖
| o pana e pona tawa sina pi tenpo kama |
💖
| Be Kind to Your Future Self! |
(cf Chapter 2 of How to Keep House while Drowning by KC Davis) - ^z - 2024-08-28
- Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 08:09:41 (EDT)
| o olin sina |
Love thyself! — or perhaps, as said by KC Davis in How to Keep House While Drowning: "Self-compassion is key"!
^z - 2024-08-27
- Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 08:37:47 (EDT)
| lawa open kulupu |
An enigmatic mantra from the Insight Dice — perhaps suggesting:
... that last possibility echoes an observation by Michael Kimmelman (NY Times music critic, in Creative Devices): "Bach, whose music has the most rules, also gives the most freedom, a paradoxical quality of creativity."
^z - 2024-08-26
- Monday, August 26, 2024 at 16:18:01 (EDT)
Feeling deep sympathy
— without taking in pain
Serving one another
— without anything in return
Helping the needy
— without removing responsibility
Forgiving the guilty
— without approving the sin
🙌
(cf Carrying Our Own Stuff (2017-01-17), ...) - ^z - 2024-08-23
- Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 05:51:05 (EDT)
Mind your heart.
Spend time with friends.
Know that you are loved!
or in Toki Pona:
💖
o lukin tawa pilin sina
o awen lon jan pona sina
o sona e olin tawa sina
(with special thanks to Dr 🌙 !) - ^z - 2024-08-22
- Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 08:32:55 (EDT)
When a bell stops ringing
At the moment a door closes
Between night and day
In the space between thoughts
Breathe
(cf Between (2009-12-10), ...) - ^z - 2024-08-13
- Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 15:53:50 (EDT)
A nation named not for a person,
Not for a tribe, but for a concept — unity
Like a partnership, a marriage
A mathematical set, a team
Together
One
^z - 2024-08-12
- Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 08:04:46 (EDT)
Because — just because
Everything has a cause
And that cause has a cause before it
Back to the very beginning —
Or if there's a loop without a beginning,
Then the cause applies to the whole loop
Why?
Because — just because
^z - 2024-08-11
- Monday, August 12, 2024 at 10:17:59 (EDT)
🙉
Illusion or delusion?
Is there any choice?
Compulsion or decision?
Oh shush, Inner Voice!
^z - 2024-08-09
- Sunday, August 11, 2024 at 12:59:56 (EDT)
All that is:
Future, past
Outside, within
Tiny, vast
Glacial-slow
Atomic-fast
Below, above
First and last!
^z - 2024-08-08
- Friday, August 09, 2024 at 08:55:37 (EDT)
🪺
Invisible bands
Together we run
Hands take hands
Two become one
^z - 2024-08-07
- Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:33:37 (EDT)
Pure seeing
Perfect hearing
Sensing what is
Without labels
Without judgment
Without choice
Only present
(cf Attention, Attention, Attention (2015-03-03), Bare Attention (2016-06-20), Attention Means Attention (2019-09-18), ...) - ^z - 2024-08-05
- Wednesday, August 07, 2024 at 10:08:35 (EDT)
Invisible ropes
Bind us together
Hold us back
Pull us forward
Rescue us when we fall
Carry words between us
Lead us through darkness
Until the day we
Cut the ropes
And go solo
^z - 2024-08-04
- Monday, August 05, 2024 at 07:51:09 (EDT)
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