There’s plenty to write about this morning – if you haven’t yet made the rounds of the news sites, you’ll get there soon – and all of it is depressing as hell. The pols are doing what they always do, as are the left-wing loonies, the “private sector” grifters, the talking heads, and the …
Category: happiness
Jun 12 2023
You Are Not Special: A Defense Of Normality
The early-morning hours often bring me to a strange place. It’s not a particularly comfortable place. Yet from that vantage point I can see things that are not apparent at other times, when time itself seems speeded up and a welter of necessities press. And being who and what I am, I’m moved to …
Mar 10 2023
Happiness Is
I’m wiped out this morning. Yesterday was unusually strenuous, and my night’s sleep was less than satisfactory. But I want to post something every day if possible, so I turned to my Archives in search of something my Gentle Readers might find refreshing. Long, long ago, I knew a semipro editor …
Sep 07 2021
On Going Too Far
Yesterday’s tirade about moderation reaped me an email objection I should have expected. My correspondent assumed that I had a “system” of some sort in mind, rather than a simple respect for the equilibrium principle that governs all things under the veil of time. The writer asked if I were about to advocate “Christian …
Jul 21 2021
The Mystery Of Work
It’s time for something to raise the spirits, rather than darken them as political BS tends to do. As it happens, I have something of the sort on tap. First, a little C. S. Lewis: Then an experience that perhaps no good man can ever have in our world came over (Ransom) – …
Jun 19 2021
The Secret To Happiness
[I first posted the story below in August 2015. It seems to me to deserve a repetition, especially given how many people I’ve encountered recently who talk about nothing but their woes. It comes in many variations, so you might have heard it somewhat differently on another occasion. – FWP] *** They were …
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