Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #notestoself, Motivation, Thoughts on July 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Celebrations are fun, and we have another cluster of birthdays around now. That has me thinking about the passage of time, and how change happens even when you don’t notice it. Am I the same person I was twenty years ago? I am not.
Hopefully that’s a good thing!
“Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.”
— David Bowie
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, authors, quotes, Thoughts on July 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, controversy, history, mythology, technology, the old gods, Thoughts on July 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We’ve been watching a fun and insightful series called Stuff the British Stole (there’s a podcast too if that’s your thing). One episode focused on the Elgin Marbles, a collection of sculptures that were removed from the Parthenon in the early nineteenth century and are now famously (and controversially) housed in the British Museum.
Beautiful as they are, those sculptures provide only hints of the temple’s original magnificence. And having been fortunate enough to have visited both the Marbles and their original resting place, I found this article interesting:
A 3D Model Reveals What the Parthenon and Its Interior Looked Like 2,500 Years Ago | Open Culture
Standing atop the Acropolis in Athens as it has for nearly 2,500 years now, the Parthenon remains an impressive sight indeed…. One enthusiast in particular, an Oxford archaeology professor named Juan de Lara, has spent four years using 3D modeling tools to create a 3D digital reconstruction of the Parthenon at the height of its glory…
Check out the video:
Here’s to Athena, goddess of wisdom!
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, oh hey adulting!, Thoughts on July 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I’m a little busy today with this, that and the other thing, so here’s today’s public service announcement:
Make a will. And for extra credit, make sure whoever comes after can access your passwords.
Yes, it’s boring. Yes, it’s a little scary.
But your family will thank you.
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Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts, Writers on July 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »
True strength lies in admitting weakness, and then working to fix it.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, another Hank Green quote, human existence, Thoughts on July 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »
People things are the hardest work, but also often the most important work. Orient yourself not just toward the construction and acquisition of new tools, but to the needs of people, and that include you, it includes your friends and your family. I think we can sometimes feel so powerful and like the world is so big that throwing a birthday party or making a playlist for a friend can seem too insignificant when placed against the enormity of Al and climate change and the erosion of democracy. But those thoughts alienate you from the reality of human existence, from your place as a builder not just of tools, but of meaning. And that’s not just about impact and productivity and problem solving, it is about living a life.
— Hank Green
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts on July 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
— Marcel Proust
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts on July 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, action, creativity, inspiration, procrastination, Thoughts, writing on July 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »
There is no perfect moment to begin.
— Seth Godin
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Posted in Food and..., Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, better now, FDA, food, olden times, regulations, Writers on July 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Let’s call this post the latest in my “actually, some things are very definitely better, thankfully!” series.
What was food like before the FDA? | Popular Science
Short answer? Not good!
Read the article for more on formaldehyde, brick dust, lead and other things you never thought would be mentioned in a story about food. (There’s also a shout-out to Upton Sinclair’s classic novel The Jungle, which, among other things, helped publicize the unsavory conditions inside Chicago’s meatpacking plants.)
Now I’m off to have a Plaster of Paris-free sandwich, yum!
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J.R. Johnson 
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