“After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work.”
― Beryl Markham
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Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Work and Hope
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, inspiration, Thoughts on January 4, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Nothing At All
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, writing on January 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
― Deepak Chopra
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Time Machines
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts on December 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories… And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells
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Lessons from the Past
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on December 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“That’s what literature is. It’s the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
— Connie Willis
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Be Those People
Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Christmas, inspiration, Thoughts on December 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“It’s Christmas Eve! It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.”
— Bill Murray
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Look What We Did!
Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, accomplishments, cool projects, creativity, history, inspiration, Thoughts on December 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Last month marked 25 years of humanity’s continuous presence in orbit around this fair planet.
25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station
Two NASA contractors, working only during their off hours, have built a portal into all of those resources to uniquely represent the 25-year history of ISS occupancy.
ISS in Real Time, by Ben Feist and David Charney, went live on Monday (October 27), ahead of the November 2 anniversary. In its own way, the new website may be as impressive a software engineering accomplishment as the station is an aerospace engineering marvel.
It’s a good story about persistence and creativity, and it’s great to have all of this history and knowledge in one place.
It’s also easy to get bogged down in the trials of life and forget what’s good. But really? Our adventures in space are pretty incredible. For most of our species’ existence we’ve looked up at the stars and dreamed. And now?
Look! Look what we did!
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See Better, Be Better
Posted in Other, Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, heroes, inspiration, social science, Thoughts on December 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Why do we need heroes? To be better versions of ourselves.
Scientists Discover That People Act Way Better When Batman Is Present
After making a guy dressed as Batman stand around in a subway car, a team of researchers found that the behavior of people around him suddenly improved the moment he showed up.
I call this the “see better, be better” school of human behavior. And I like it!
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Persistence Pays Off
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, inspiration, persistence on December 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
This video is refusing to embed for some reason, but if you are impressed by clever and creative displays of persistence (by humans and others!), it’s worth checking out. Start at the 3:00 minute mark if you want to go straight to the training process, or at 15:00 if you want to skip to the piano performance.
Note: this video contains a lot of swearing. Which, as someone who has trained their cat to sit and jump (but definitely not play an instrument), I completely understand!
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Giving Tuesday Workout
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, charity, donations, inspiration, kindness on December 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes
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Magic and Meaning
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, hope, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on December 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Now this is exactly what I need on a Monday.
How John Green Fights Despair Every Day | The Interview – YouTube
I mean the problem with hope is that it feels like a very easy word. You know, it feels like very convenient and sort of kumbaya. But I’m interested in the kind of hope that holds up to scrutiny. The kind of hope that does hold up to the worst things that happen to us, that holds up to our worst days. That’s the kind of hope that I’m interested in.
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