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What I learned this week, May 27, 2022
5 Incredibly Effective Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans A psychologist explains why negativity dominates your daily thoughts, and what to do...
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More Bicycling, Coffee, and a Notebook
“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the...
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Grumpy Fuckers
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”― Emily Dickinson Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas I received a random internet ad for merch from the “Grumpy Fuckers Coffee Shop.” I liked it – not enough to order...
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What I learned this week, June 3, 2022
FAILE uses the year 1986 in their work – the year of the Challenger Disaster. The New Normal Is Failure The clusterfark in Uvalde is just a symptom of a much bigger pathology. It is a symbol of the...
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What I learned this week, June 17, 2022
Downtown Square, McKinney, Texas 5 Questions the Most Interesting People Will Always Ask in Conversations The point is to get beyond the dreaded small talk. I wonder what this guy was thinking… “Wow,...
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Grams
“In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.”― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone Aeropress, from Williams Sonoma I am such...
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What I learned this week, June 24, 2022
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas The Strange Case of Buddy Holly’s Final Pair of Glasses Sheriff Jerry Allen of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, was combing through a storage vault in a courthouse basement on...
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Fruit Bomb With Lush Notes of Cherry…
“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but...
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What I learned this week, June 30, 2022
Flora Street, Dallas, Texas How your mind, under stress, gets better at processing bad news Some of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime will occur while you feel stressed and...
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Today is the First Day
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”― Rumi Clarence Street Art Collective, The Cedars, Dallas, Texas I remember back in high school...
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Bicycle, Pen, and Notebook
“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”― Umberto Eco Stuff on a picnic table in Huffhines Park, Richardson Texas. Day two of the rest of my life. I didn’t get up as early as I liked – but I did...
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What I learned this week, July 9, 2022
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas (click to enlarge) The Remarkable Ways Our Brains Slip Into Synchrony Many of our most influential experiences are shared with and, according to a growing body of cognitive...
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What I learned this week, July 15, 2022
Recycled Books Denton, Texas A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1970s I’m not too surprised – but I have read all of these. What’s odd is that I’ve also read all the ones from the...
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Staycation
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our...
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What I learned this week, July 22, 2022
Artwork in the Braindead Brewing Company, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas Open-minded people have a different visual perception of reality Psychologists have only begun to unravel the concept of...
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I Luv Ya Honey Bunny
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sidesBy the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil menBlessed is he who, in the name of charity and good willShepherds the weak through the...
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It Does Taste Better in a Pulp Fiction Cup
“Don’t you just love it when you come back from the bathroom and find your food waiting for you?” — Mia, Pulp Fiction My Morning Coffee I woke up looking forward to my morning coffee even more than I...
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What I learned this week, August 6, 2022
Unicycle, Ronald Kirk Pedestrian Bridge, Dallas, Texas The Quiet Glory of Aging into Athleticism I wasn’t ready to be an athlete, in any capacity, as a adolescent or young adult. I am now. Sleep The...
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What I learned this week, August 12, 2022
The Cedars, Dallas, Texas Could learning algebra in my 60s make me smarter? New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson struggled with maths at school, finding inspiration in literature instead. But aged 65, in...
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Let Me Sip
“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but...
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