One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say. —Voltaire First World problems are things that bother people from wealthy countries that most Third Worlders would consider ridiculous. For instance, if you’ve been acting out over having to stand on public transportation, then you’re demonstrating a First World problem. If you just unfriended someone […]
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The Theravada Buddhist monk Ajahn Sona describes the mind as an untrained dog. You call it and it doesn’t pay attention. It wanders around and barks and scratches, and it’s completely unreceptive to your interaction, assuming you’ve actually gotten to the point where you can observe it instead of thinking that this untrained dog is
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Everything does not happen for a reason. The notion that it does is a self-centered human fantasy based on limited, exclusionary knowledge. It helps people deal with immense uncertainties beyond their powers of perception. They’re staggering through life blind to their actual nature. The concept of “a reason” only exists for humans. When you remove
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When Streetcar520 closed for indoor dining in March of 2020 due to statewide COVID-19 restrictions, owner Ari Knaup faced an intense battle for the restaurant’s survival. Streetcar was her invention, as much a work of art as it was a dining establishment. Three large, colorful murals of women adorned the walls, each one portraying a
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This sentence tightening video features a workshop on improving sentence-level clarity. The workshop includes discussions on the active voice, removing prepositional phrases, proper comma usage, avoiding redundancy, and so on.
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The beautiful things view the projection without knowing, without thinking, perched on a rocky ledge at sunset, watching the valley turn to gold.
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