Reconfigurable Expert

Feb
10th

Wed

I figured out that my main obsession is freedom, and if I didn’t have the freedom of close access to the natural world, I wasn’t going to survive.

— Jim Harrison

When the wine is bitter, become the wine.

— Rilke

Jan
27th

Wed

On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

— Frank Zappa

Jan
25th

Mon

“Intellectual Boys” - by Coco Love Alcorn (via cocolovealcorn)

Jan
20th

Wed

The Mississippi delta
Was shining like a national guitar

— Paul Simon - Graceland

Can’t be!

Jan
15th

Fri

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

— Ambrose Redmoon

Dec
3rd

Thu

Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. - Zombie Targets

Dec
2nd

Wed

The message of their research is clear. Putting off a task to control immediate mood results in problems later. They demonstrate this across a number of domains as I noted earlier, including eating, drinking, smoking, gambling, shopping and procrastination. When we give primacy to addressing our emotional distress, we usually do so at the cost of self-regulatory failure.

[…]

The message to each of us should be clear as well. If we focus on our feelings in the short term, we’ll undermine ourselves in the long run.

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Giving in to feel good: Why self-regulation fails | Psychology Today

(I note that this could be spun as a variation on: delay of gratification, personal discount rate, RET [your feelings follow your thoughts], or behavioural therapy [your feelings follow your behaviors]).

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time. I worship each god, I praise each day splintered down, splintered down and wrapped in time like a husk, a husk of many colors spreading, at dawn fast over the mountains split.

— Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm