June 28, 2021 Filed under Inspiration
“No man is brave that has never walked 100 miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than a mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
Patrick Rothfuss
June 18, 2021 Filed under Inspiration, Introspection
You already know
A haiku about self-care
What you need to be doing
And it isn’t this
May 22, 2021 Filed under Inspiration
If discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning.
Jed Jenkins
March 22, 2021 Filed under Inspiration
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
George Elliot
February 8, 2021 Filed under Advice, Amused, Inspiration
30 years ago I saw this advice in the computing magazine that was delivered to our house each month:
I was already familiar with the game, and I knew it was right: When you’re playing Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony and you enter a fortress, the guards are easier to fight hand-to-hand.
I was intrigued by the counterintuitive feel of the advice. If you have a long sharp sword, and you’re good with it, wouldn’t that always be the best choice? Then I imagined trying to swing a sword in a narrow hallway. Perhaps something more intimate, and easier to control, was right after all.
For years after I read that silly, unremarkable sentence in that gaming magazine, it bubbled up randomly in different situations. I generalized the idea: When you enter a confined space, don’t waste effort trying to keep everything at arm’s length — especially people. Switch to something more intimate even if it’s less powerful. The trick is recognizing when you need to switch modes.
Recently I got ahold of a bunch of ancient issues of a defunct magazine called Family Computing, and fed them into a sheet-fed automatic scanner. Flicking through the pages, I found more pieces of worthy life advice. May they guide you on your journeys!
Very important to know when you’re a young person at a party, or when some jerk decides to pick on you!
