“It’s a healthy reminder that not everything needs to be a battle. As parents, we can get better at picking our moments. If it doesn’t truly matter, if it’s not a big deal in the grand scheme, why not just say yes upfront?“

-Ryan Holiday

It’s a shame that the new “Hide distracting items” feature in Safari doesn’t work in Apple News.

“People who pay for shoddy products or careless services and people who are robbed outright are equally victims of theft, the only difference being that the robbers outright are not guilty of fraud.”

Wendell Berry in “The Two Economies”

Friday Night.

Reading by the riverside.

“A priest and the Baptist are sitting together on the plane. The priest orders a glass of wine, the Baptist a 7-Up. The Baptist says, “Christians should not touch alcohol,” and the priest says, “Jesus drank wine.” The Baptist says, “Yes, and I’d have thought better of him if he hadn’t.”

• as told by Garrison Keillor

““When you have gone too far…the only mending is to come home”

From Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

“The problem with holding a grudge is that it makes your hands too full to do anything useful.”

Via-Seth Godin

The mind that comes to rest is tended
In ways that it cannot intend:
Is borne, preserved, and comprehended
By what it cannot comprehend.

Your Sabbath, Lord, thus keeps us by
Your will, not ours. And it is fit
Our only choice should be to die
Into that rest, or out of it.

-Wendell Berry, Sabbaths 1979

Brunch?

“A great relationship is not only finding the person you have fun with, but also finding the person you want to be bored with. The beauty of long-term relationships is often hidden in boring, ordinary moments.”

• James Clear

“Nothing good ever comes from indulging the egos of old men.”

From Political Proverbs.

Water Lillies.

Food for thought on the 4th

River.

“I used to think that basically, the whole world, that all humanity were basically bastards. I’ve since found that most people seem to be pretty nice—basically good people doing the best they can. There is rarely, however, a neat takeaway. You have to learn to exercise a certain moral relativity, to be a good guest first—as a guiding principle. Otherwise you’d spend the rest of the world lecturing people, pissing people off, confusing them and learning nothing”

-Anthony Bourdain in The Last Interview

Saturday.