Was nice to read this and experience four baptisms at church today, per tradition!
Total Dudes! series and I am here for it. But I’m also grateful to have it behind me. Living in his dark, morally devoid crass world weighs on you.
4/5
There’s one down. Lindy’s xmas present to me were physical copies of some of her favorite reads from last year. 3.5/5 I kept thinking Station Eleven did it better while I was reading, which is unfair but that’s just the way it goes.
Report to El Greco
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Do not question whether your habits are delivering meaning on a cosmic scale. Habits are a prerequisite to every good thing. Without them you will have nothing. With them you may still have nothing, but what is the alternative? Act as if you have free will. You never know. You may get lucky.
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I want less –Lower back pain
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I want more –Date nites –Bias towards action –Earnestness –Personal projects
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Things to let go –Spending money frivolously
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Things to keep –Restrictions on the phone –Steps with a weighted backpack –Gravel biking –The occasional drink with friends –Reading
Thanks, I had it stuffed yesterday.
Christmas Eve glow-stick candle hiding out on the day after the day after the day after Christmas service.
There is a surprising amount of tedium to the holiday break with little ones. The previous joy of relaxing with a book has been replaced with the constant play requirements of kids on break. Of course this tedium fills one with self-loathing for the wonderful life one has chosen.
2025 abandoned books
Two for a personal project whose time has not yet, or may ever come considering I can’t do the reading, and the ghost stories? Wanted to like them more than I did. I expect to finish all of these at some point in my life.
