Well, I’ve started off the day with a tax-related injury, words I never thought I’d say. Not serious but it is kind of funny.
Thanks, Monday!
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So Very Monday
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #becauseMonday, taxes on April 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Making the Best of It
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts on April 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner
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Go On, Do It
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, inspiration, life, Thoughts on April 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”
— Mae Jemison, Doctor, Astronaut
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Stressed? This Might Help
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #LicenseToChill, Thoughts on April 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »
This has been quite a week. Even if you don’t pay attention to the news or the markets or any of the other crazy happening over the past few days, you may have noticed the stress on the faces of those who do.
So. Today seems like a fine day to take a little walk on a beach and try to relax:)
And just for fun, Hawaii is the rainbow capital of the world. Here’s what that means.
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We Have Always Traded
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, cartography, connectivity, history, maps, Thoughts, trade on April 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Global trade is very much in the news these days. While many of the current moves from the US seem designed to take the country back to a time when every country stood on its own, those times have, arguably, been much exaggerated. There are many historical examples of interconnectivity, from the Egyptians to the Greeks to the Romans to the Silk Road and many more, but I recently saw a very cool map that brought this idea home.
A Brilliantly Detailed Map Of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks
Even before the modern era, the Afro-Eurasian world was deeply interconnected through trade.
I found this map to be a fascinating look into a network of world trade during an era many might assume was very insular. The only thing I wish it included is travel times. How long, for example, would it have taken for cardamom to get from India to Venice to Oslo and into a loaf of braided bread?
Here’s the map from Martin Jan Månsson, part of his website, The Age of Trade:
Zoom in and be impressed!
(Bonus for your amusement: a comic on tariffs from xkcd 🙂
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Sick Day
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #ifyouarenotsickrightnowenjoyit, ugh on April 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Mr Man is under the weather today, and I can feel the virus measuring me up as its next target. Not fun, but we have tea, cough drops, hot sauce, chicken soup, and Buckley’s, so we’ll manage!
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Keep Believing
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, not you not me but us, Thoughts on April 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Let’s not forget to be always looking beyond the horizon, at what could be if we keep believing, keep pushing, stay together, not fall apart.”
— José Andrés
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A Bright Spot
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, hope, inspiration, politics, setting records on April 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I was going to post a short piece on the malleability of politicians, but then Cory Booker did this:
Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech
Booker’s speech officially surpassed the previous record set in 1957 by noted segregationist Strom Thurmond, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes to oppose the Civil Rights Act.
I’ll post my story tomorrow. Today, I want to celebrate the fact that we have representatives who will stand up for their people and beliefs, and share their conviction and purpose with us all.
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Look Up!
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, hope, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Look up! Looking up gives us freedom and causes the shadows to slip right down our backs.
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Curiosity’s Catalyst
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, curiosity, failure, grace, humility, inspiration, integrity, knowledge, public libraries, Thoughts on March 28, 2025| 1 Comment »
“I don’t know” is not an admission of ignorance. It’s an expression of intellectual humility.
“I was wrong” is not a confession of failure. It’s a display of intellectual integrity.
“I don’t understand” is not a sign of stupidity. It’s a catalyst for intellectual curiosity.
— Adam Grant
And since we’re talking about knowledge and how to gain it, let’s hear it for libraries!
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