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“we need haters to help us grow … they are in your life for a reason”
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Uma Thurman deals with haters in her own way
This is from a great essay by Danny Choo on BoingBoing (read it all):
Society has all walks of people and we would never be able to successfully get through life without experiencing haters and learning how to deal with them. Remember that we need haters to help [...]
Life lessons from Sartre and de Beauvoir
Sunday, January 11th, 2009I’ve been reading Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley, which was a very interesting and entertaining read, especially considering the rather dry and serious characters of its two famous protagonists. Here are a few of the ideas it sparked for me:
Relationships:
There is no way J-P Sartre could have maintained his “freedom” [...]
How not to plan your life
Saturday, October 4th, 2008I’m reading (and working through) Martha Beck’s Steering by Starlight, which is a quite new-agey self-help book and lots of fun if you like that sort of thing, which I very much do. This passage made me laugh out loud, and also sums up pretty well what it is I like about Martha’s use of [...]
fans & friends
Sunday, July 20th, 2008I was thinking lately about how/ whether it is/ might be useful to stick with these two definitions when wondering how best to address/ talk to people. Whereas I dislike the idea of mentor/ mentee relationships being treated as anything other than friendship (back to that later, unless I forget & nobody cares enough to [...]
married people actually have sex shocker!
Saturday, July 12th, 2008This week we read in the shocker-tastic British press about the married couple that had sex for 101 days in a row, and the wife who gave her husband a gift (or “gave” her husband a “gift”) of sex every day for a year- which apparently they almost actually managed.
If you consider it perfectly [...]
try a new thing every day
Friday, July 11th, 2008Have you done a new thing lately? Ben Casnocha asks, and a very good question it is too.
My first reaction would be that every day is always new and every time you do something it is different than before… usually. Being about a hundred years older than Ben, I think I did so much new [...]
the dog story
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Well, I like reading about people’s real lives, so maybe I’ll tell y’alls about the dog story that just happened round here… (I would shorten this to make the writing better if someone paid me, but otherwise don’t have time for briefness, as they say).
To start with, the neighbours went away, leaving their two big [...]
forget social convention, follow your star
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The social self isn’t opposed to you reaching your North Star per se; it just won’t allow you to proceed until you get Everybody’s permission. Actually, the social self would prefer that you don’t do anything, anything at all, until Everybody kneels down and begs you to do it.
Martha Beck, Finding your own North Star
This [...]
quote of the day
Monday, June 23rd, 2008This one’s from a tweet (on Twitter) by Jackie:
Never follow your heroes on Twitter. They always disappoint you in the end.
There’s something about heroes, which can be almost anyone whose work you admire I suppose, that tricks us into thinking these people are perfect in every way, so we feel really disappointed when they aren’t. [...]
dealing with downturn
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Pam Slim has an excellent detailed advice post about how to get to grips with and make the most of economic downturn. When things go wrong, you have to get beyond the initial shock-and-moaning stage, figure out what your new plans are going to be and get on with them in a positive way. For [...]
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