Tag: happiness
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Your phone is not the problem
Following the discussions in the blogsphere lately about our relationships with our phones, I'd like to echo Antonio Santos' sentiments, and add a few supporting thoughts of my own.
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My piano came home from the hospital
Five months ago, my house flooded. This week, the first completed repair work has been completed: fixing the upright piano that filled with water. The piano's back with us, in our temporary accommodation, and I couldn't be happier about it!
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The first glimmer
Zach of The One and I wrote earlier this year about 'glimmers', which he describes as the opposite of 'triggers'. I love both the word and its concept, and I'm going to try to cultivate a better personal awareness of the glimmers in my life.
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Postcards... from the Internet!
A few weeks ago I published a PO Box address to which visitors to my site can post postcards, to try to bridge the gap between my 'Internet friends' and the physical world. Today I received my first two postcards, and I couldn't be more thrilled (not least because I wasn't entire sure anybody would go for my weird suggestion!).
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If this man isn't hired immediately, it's a huge loss
Shortly after I found myself redundant, the other month, my former colleague Kyle wrote some inspiring words on LinkedIn that I've re-read about once a week ever since then. So now I'm going to keep a copy here for posterity.
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I'm applying for a few roles that might be the next step in my career. And to my surprise, updating my CV and tweaking my portfolio is doing a world of good for my feelings of self-worth!
Seriously: looking back over the last ~25 years of my career and enumerating the highlights is giving me a better "big picture" view of everything I've achieved than I ever got from the near-focus of daily work. I should do this more often!
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I was happy to get out of the traffic jam and get some fresh air, but the dog is REALLY happy! Running, rolling, sniffing, jumping... so excited to be able to move around!
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A French Bulldog happily rolls around on her back in lush green grass.
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Ahead of schedule on work project. Invited to 2nd COVID jab next week. Spent half of day working on laptop in sunny garden. Parcel arrived from @LEGO_group with Everyone Is Awesome model (pictured).
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Staying Sane with GEMSAW
Dan shares GEMSAW, the mnemonic acronym behind his self-care routine during these challenging times.
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I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband
A surprisingly uplifting story from the Washington Post.
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Happy Metamour Appreciation Day, JTA
JTA and Dan would be friends anyway, but having a partner-in-common has given them the opportunity to be closer still. Dan shares some of their history together.
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To Protect Migrants From Police, a Dutch Church Service Never Ends
by Patrick Kingsley ...[A] marathon church service, which started more than six weeks ago, and hasn’t stopped since, can never take a break.
Under an obscure Dutch law, the police may not disrupt a church service to make an arrest. And so for the past six weeks, immigration officials have been unable to enter Bethel Church … -
Emails to Melbourne's trees
Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.
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Margaret Burin (ABC News)
In an effort to facilitate better tracking of the health of their trees, the city of Melbourne assigned an email address to each of … -
Tim Ferriss is wrong -- no, maybe he's right!
Tim Ferriss is wrong -- no, maybe he's right! (changingminds.org) ...
There is an American principle that success is more about what you are making than what you are worth, and even less about being able to stop working. This is a brilliant cultural driver for a strong economy as it celebrates working billionaires. In Britain, … -
In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life
They call it “the easy life” for a reason.
I got my degree from a small, public college in upstate New York.
People went there, got their degrees and then went off to have quiet and sometimes boring lives. Although a degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) system is a valuable commodity outside of …