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Category: The Spirit

Self-knowledge and the Thrilling Unknown

Posted on January 22, 2025February 19, 2025 by

I’m not sure where this insight or thought experiment came from. Possibly a professor in undergrad or a weird book I happened to pick up. It pertains to the continual quest for self-knowledge. It goes like this: Imagine everything that is true about you as a box full of facts, beliefs, ideals, fears, and other…

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“This is the true joy in life…” George Bernard Shaw

Posted on January 11, 2025January 11, 2025 by

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life…

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2024 Round Up: Skate Travels and Teaching, Hiking SF, Challah for Papa

Posted on December 27, 2024December 31, 2024 by

As I wrote in the previous post, lots of 2024 was spent dealing with external events that impacted my life. Which was a lot. But I also accomplished quite a bit. Published the Definitive History of Yehoodi.com I began 2024 with the release of a 39-page history of the online community Yehoodi.com, a labor of…

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2024 Year in Review: Bad Knees, Bullies, Death and Unexpected Joy

Posted on December 26, 2024December 29, 2024 by

At its face, 2024 was not the best year ever. Let’s run down the awfulness: But honestly, despite all of these events – and in some ways because of them – 2024 was still a pretty great year. Let’s break it down. Problems Money Can Solve Someone said “You are fortunate if you have problems…

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Dr. Rick Hanson’s Triangle of What Is True

Posted on December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 by

Dr. Rick Hanson is a Buddhist practitioner and lecturer who does a weekly meditation that has been speaking to my condition a lot lately. This latest one is particularly interesting: “The Good News That’s Still True.” Rick shares out this graphic describing what he calls the “Triangle of What Is True.” Each level he describes…

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“How Can I Keep From Singing?” Lyrics

Posted on December 1, 2024 by

I think of the hymn “How Can I Keep From Singing?” as Quaker in origin, but that doesn’t appear to be historically accurate. It was certainly adopted by Quakers, around the time of the abolitionist era. “How Can I Keep From Singing?” (1868) My life goes on in endless songAbove earth’s lamentations,I hear the real,…

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Good Bones (poem)

Posted on November 11, 2024November 11, 2024 by

Good Bones By Maggie Smith (2015) Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this…

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George Fox on the Ocean of Darkness (quote)

Posted on November 3, 2024November 3, 2024 by

This quote from George Fox’s journal from 1647 feels apropos right now, a couple of days before the election: I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

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The Hype Man

Posted on October 28, 2024 by

Every day at the rink I see skaters working on “unlocking” a move — backwards skating, transitions, spins, crazy legs… I see their knitted brows and frowns as they concentrate on getting it down, sometimes for five minutes, sometimes for weeks or months. I don’t always offer tips or help, because not everyone wants that….

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Six Months of PT in the Bag!

Posted on August 24, 2024 by

Today I’m celebrating six months of physical therapy! On the plus side, doing daily PT I believe has helped to mitigate knee pain and be able to walk for longer periods of time. And the exercises are not too onerous — basically they are part of my daily morning prep and evening wind down, which…

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