What is Time for?
Zena Hitz at Plough
Topic
Flourishing
If you want to flourish, you need to be connected to full reality. If you want to be connected to full reality, you need to be connected to the Tao. If you want to be connected to the Tao, you need your right hemisphere to reclaim its rightful role as the master.
Laws Can’t Cure Loneliness
Auguste Meyrat at Law & Liberty
Why We Judge. And Why We Need to Stop
I buy a cup of coffee about twice a month.
Nearly every time, I see the same groups of older guys, sitting around a table, drinking coffee, and chatting.
It appears they stay for hours during the morning: Revving up their neurons with caffeine so they can bear down on
Maybe We Should Start Doing Jigsaw Puzzles
I enjoyed jigsaw puzzles as a kid, but by the time I got to college, they had become relics in my closet.
I’m “toying” with the idea of getting them out again, perhaps starting with the really pretty Bob Ross puzzle collection.
Jigsaw puzzles are excellent ways to relax.
You Can Pretend Your Way to the Flourishing Life
The Goodness of Faking Yourself Out
The Full Agrarian Letter
Professor Michael Jordan's Final Exam Letter to his Students
Professor Michael Jordan saw last week's post. He graciously provided me the original, full letter, with this note:
I taught a course on “The Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization” back in 1999, and while students were taking
Our Need for Self-Knowledge
One of man's deepest needs is the need for identity. We need to know who we are; we need to exist in our own eyes and other people's. That need for identity is so strong that it can lead to aberrations [an over-active left hemisphere giving
Optimal Work on Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture
No Woom for Wu? You Have Pwoblems
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 3
The Death of Literature?
If no one can focus long enough to read it, no one is going to pay for it. If no one pays for it, no one can write it. That, I believe, is the steady theme of this lovely literary essay that doesn't merely lament the state of