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Final Thoughts on Montaigne
The final passage from Michael Perry’s book, Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy.
Amateurs Amble Through Philosophy
The only thing more fun than reading Montaigne, it seems, is reading what others say about Montaigne.
More of, Less of
An imagining tool for 2019
“Vulnerability is the key to longevity”
Eddie Smith, from 2016: Modern survival is antithetical to everything evolution programmed us for. Today we have to: Eat much less than is available Move much more than we have to Take many more daily risks than we have to Today, complacency is the tiger rustling in the bushes. Vulnerability is the key to longevity. Too often, I equate vulnerability with fragility. They’re not the same thing.
On keeping a one-line-a-day diary
As the saying goes, the weakest ink lasts longer than the strongest memory.
Graveyard vs Cemetery
Driving down backroads from the Jordan Lake Christmas Tree Farm, we passed a white clapboard church with a gravel parking lot and a graveyard. On my thematic purity rating for backroad country churches, it rated a 9 out of 10. (Points are deducted for paved parking lots, brick churches, and modern architecture.) But the sight …
What I believe, for now
What I believe, for now.
Audiobook: Mrs. Dalloway
Listening to Mrs. Dalloway.
Mom’s Day Memory
A story from my sordid past, told by my mom.
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