Week 682 muttering

Here I go again: (go here to see what’s up) Deep dive :: submarine Puppies :: everywhere Bow :: stern Clown :: college Fresh! :: stale Munch :: lunch Jack :: Jill Boiled :: egg Elected :: official Book club :: reading OK, boring but true, first thing that came to mind.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle

I somehow stumbled across an excellent article describing how hard Westerners (in particular) work to just spend more of what they earn on things that don’t really matter. Oh, crap, that’s a horrible simplification. Perhaps a quote: Here in the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public […]

a little guilt’s good for you, but this is ridiculous

Ah, here is one that I’ll be working on for a while. Forever, maybe. The Big One: Guilt. The Dalai Lama says this: ‘Guilt, as experienced in Western culture, is connected with hopelessness and discouragement and is past-oriented. Genuine remorse, however, is a healthy state of mind – it is future-oriented, connected with hope, and […]