...one of my favorites is: “I want to know who I am at second sunrise”... but it has problems when it comes to explaining what I do, because I already know.

It’s true when things are going well, and it’s true when they’re going poorly. It’s an endless cycle of ups and downs, and the only unreliable part of this cycle is the timing

It’s a recurrent theme, and it’s also a process or a phenomenon that is reliable enough to depend upon and even trust... maybe that's the essence of serendipity.

...think briefly about what might have been, but it isn’t good to dwell on that. It’s far better — and far more ultra — to assess the situation as it is and deal with it in a positive…

If it’s hard for us to do this... then it’s hard for other people to do it, too. When we see them failing at it, it doesn’t automatically mean that they’re dumb or malicious.

When I mentioned that this pandemic-produced lack of spectator sports might help people break their sports-spectator addictions, a friend was offended.

I’m having a hard time kicking this doom-scrolling habit, this hunger for those highly addictive bits of news that are continuously flowing through my various news feeds in this time of churning.

We’ve already decided to do our part for making it as pandemic-safe as we can, and in my reply-all response to the invitation I said we’d be there “for the outdoor parts of the day…

...it’s a sign of mental and emotional and spiritual health to have the perception and the empathy to feel that way, and the confidence to allow it to flow when it wants to flow.

It could be that it’s good for my mind to face this tax puzzle each year, that it keeps me sharp, that it’s a benefit to face puzzles like this from multiple genres on a regular basis.