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  • Did not finish (DNF)

    A selection of notes, quotes, ideas and musings from the month of March 2024. Gratitude is a balm for bitterness. We can’t just do what we want… that’s just juvenile. But we probably have many…

  • Everyone’s a winner

    It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry we put our good temper down to ourselves. C.S. Lewis There’s four or five cyclists sitting around…

  • Past and potential lives

    Don’t fear fear. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over…

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    Man would rather have the void as purpose than be void of purpose. Nietzsche It was a cold winter evening in New York, one of those nights when it feels like the sun has…

  • Draining the tide pool

    You’re not who you think you are. But you are condemned to be who you think you are.” Sam Harris Maladaptive schemas are patterns we habitually play out. Early in our lives, these patterns…

  • Determined

    You shouldn’t damn ’em. Don’t judge ’em. Just forgive ’em for they know not what they do. Max Cady (Cape Fear, 1991) Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. Terrence McKenna In…

  • An hour is always an hour

    I have occasionally… lived a whole life between my first alarm at 5am and my second alarm, five minutes later. Oliver Sacks You really don’t own anything. It all disappears. When you die there’s…

  • Flat tire

    Whether it’s a sunny day when you expected rain or finding a twenty dollar bill that you had forgotten about, it’s always appreciated when life feels a little lucky. But luck isn’t always easy…

  • Unadmitted thoughts

    In the 1920’s, psychoanalyst Marion Milner had everything going for her. She had graduated with a first class degree in psychology, and had a promising career ahead of her. She was in love, married and…