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Pretty Simple, Really

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , , on October 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness – The Marginalian

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

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Lessons Learned

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , , on July 5, 2026| Leave a Comment »

A brief selection of things I learned from my mother:

  • Be yourself, even if it takes a while to figure out what that means.
  • Look for beauty, it’s everywhere.
  • Keep going, even when the road is long and the night is dark. Tomorrow can always be better.

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Don’t Delay

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , , , on October 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Some days seem designed to deliver a lesson. I won’t go into the sadly uninteresting and happily trifling details, but today’s lesson for me?

Time comes for us all. Don’t put stuff off!

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