Category: Philosophy

Friday Morning FYI – 7/31/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – I’ll-be-attending-the-Writers-Digest-Conference-in-NYC-this-weekend-so-find-me-and-say-hi! edition – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is a reflective bit of philosophy that came to me one night while eating (dark chocolate) Raisinettes:

All memories have an element of sadness to them. Even the most pleasant recollection brings with it an unresolvable longing; a need to be in that place, in that time, with those people, doing that thing. This is why living ‘in-the-moment’ is so vital to a healthy mind – to combat the bad, haunting points in our past, and to erect shelter from the gravity of the good and great.

Where are you right now?

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 7/24/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is about not-wasting the gifts the universe provides us:

A body laid down for the night in any state other than exhaustion has wasted part (or all) of that day’s unrecoverable harvest. What a shame. And for what? The conservation of energy given us to spend? Nigh-unidentifiable, and certainly unremarkable, “leisure” (it’s for good reason no one remembers periods of lost time-they are an insult to eternity)? Would it not have been better that something worth doing, or, heaven forbid, noting, been accomplished?

Run your tank to empty, let the night refill it, and wake every day welcoming new possibilities.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 7/17/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – I’m-back-on-home-soil-‘MERICA edition! – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI was going to be really good. Unfortunately, it presented itself to me a 3AM one night, and I committed one of the cardinal sins of writing: “I don’t need to write it down, I’ll remember!” So, for the first time, I’m just going to drop a quote here. Lazy? Sure. But it’s from ‘Walden’, so just read it and think about it. Hopefully that other one will come back to me at some point…

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 7/10/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – I’m-on-the-other-side-of-the-planet-and-have-no-idea-when-this-will-go-live-Part-3 (final) edition! – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is a short one about doing:

Life moves FAST. Keep up, or don’t be shocked you’re left behind.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 7/3/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – I’m-on-the-other-side-of-the-planet-and-have-no-idea-when-this-will-go-live-Part-2 edition! – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is about the strangeness of duality:

When someone else hates something you love, that thing can be considered bad and good at the same time. If it’s a problem for you two (or even just one of you), you need to uncover which it really is, thereby figuring-out who’s right (not that being right is the important thing). There can be no compromise on this, so don’t go nuts looking for one. Just figure it out and go from there.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}