Monthly Archives: October 2013

A Toolkit for Your Twenties: Item #4

Epictetus was a Stoic philosopher/life coach who lived from roughly 50 – 130 CE. As his translator Nicholas P. White observes, Epictetus was more interested in the practical applications of philosophy than its abstract questions. One result of his pragmatic … Continue reading

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Dances with Wolves

There are only a couple minutes of dancing in Kevin Costner’s three-hour film, so thank Kevin they’re good. The best scene in the movie is of Costner’s rogue hero, an American Civil War lieutenant named John Dunbar, dancing alone one … Continue reading

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via haiku (IV)

In between somewhere And somewhere else. Is this plane Flight or your lifestyle?

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via haiku (III)

A plan is a hoax But a necessary hoax: From ideals comes action.

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