In the words, "I'm looking forward to it," you define nearly all of happiness. So much of the pleasure of anything is in the anticipation. Planning breakfast out with a friend? Don't schedule it for tomorrow. Schedule it for next week.
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
Monday, June 24, 2024
Sunday, June 23, 2024
From The Archive
As I labor these days to say something fresh and new, I occasionally remind myself of how easy it used to seem. Here, for example, is a single day's output from June 2014.
Saturday, June 15, 2024
From The Miscellany Drawer
"I don't question the idea that it's never too late to repent. I do question the idea that you can lie to God all your life, and He will believe you on your deathbed."
"It is possible, in the rearrangement of facts, to create many fictions -- and more than one true story."
"Nothing unites people more defiantly than denying the same indisputable evidence."
"There are no louder defenders of privilege than the distant descendants of those who earned it."
Monday, June 10, 2024
Friendly Persuasion
"Nothing makes you a decent person like having someone in your life who stubbornly operates under that assumption."