See Hamilton

Just wow.

Since last I saw you

Things that have changed:

1. I drink coffee.
2. Dr. Sarno cured my headaches.
3. I’m getting grey hairs.

Things that haven’t:

1. I think of you
2. I root for you
3. I love you.

Only a bully beats himself up

“Were we to meet this figure socially, as it were, this accusatory character, this internal critic, we would think there was something wrong with him. He would just be boring and cruel. We might think that something terrible had happened to him. That he was living in the aftermath, in the fallout of some catastrophe. And we would be right.”

~Adam Phillips on the internal self-critic, from “Against Self-Criticism” in Unforbidden Pleasures

Personal Cloud Atlas (Winter Version)

“Don’t walk away from pancakes”

Plitvice National Park, Croatia

Be weird.

Paint Night

What you can do in a one-night paint class when a good instructor demonstrates how to do it step by step. Cheating? Maybe. I’m okay with it. In the spirit of historically prosaic titles for great works of fine art, I call it “Red Fox and Birches”.

“If you awaken from this illusion…”

“So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality,
the deep down basic whatever there is—and you are all that.
Only you’re pretending you’re not.”
~Alan Watts

America’s National Parks on NatGeo

While I love nature shows, there are unfortunately a lot of poorly made ones (sometimes melodramatically narrated, or artificially sensational, or just downright boring).

This is not one of them. This series highlights just how wild certain spaces in these parks still are. Highly recommend for nature lovers.

Sing Sing

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

~Benjamin Disraeli