Here are some youtube videos, or articles that caught my eye - from the New York Times, Consumer Reports, Popular Science etc.
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Weekend binge watching
Anne Lamont - great lecture, serious with a humorous side, about what's really important in life.
02:29
Life is both a precious, unfathomably beautiful gift,
and it's impossible here, on the incarnational side of things. It's filled simultaneously with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty,desperate poverty,floods and babies and acne and Mozart,all swirled together.
03:07
Number two: almost everything will work again
if you unplug it for a few minutes --
including you.
03:22
Three: there is almost nothing outside of you
that will help in any kind of lasting way,unless you're waiting for an organ. You can't buy, achieve or date serenity and peace of mind.
03:52
You can't run alongside your grown children
with sunscreen and ChapStick on their hero's journey.
You have to release them.
It's disrespectful not to...
Our help is often toxic.
And help is the sunny side of control.
Stop helping so much.
Don't get your help and goodness all over everybody.
04:32
This brings us to number four:
everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared,
even the people who seem to have it most together.
05:01
What helped me get clean and sober 30 years ago
was the catastrophe of my behavior and thinking.
05:17
or as a sober friend put it,
by the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.
06:16
Number five:
chocolate with 75 percent cacao is not actually a food.
06:41
Number six --
writing. Every writer you know writes really terrible first drafts,
08:06
If people wanted you to write more warmly about them,
they should've behaved better.
09:40
Number eight: families.
Families are hard, hard, hard, no matter how cherished and astonishing they may also be.
10:08
Earth is forgiveness school.
It begins with forgiving yourself,
10:44
Nine: food.
Try to do a little better. I think you know what I mean.
11:08
Grace is spiritual WD-40...
To summon grace, say, "Help," and then buckle up. Grace finds you exactly where you are, but it doesn't leave you where it found you. And grace won't look like Casper the Friendly Ghost, regrettably.
11:54
Laughter really is carbonated holiness.
It helps us breathe again and again
and gives us back to ourselves,
13:02
Number 12.
It's so hard to bear when the few people you cannot live without die. You'll never get over these losses, and no matter what the culture says, you're not supposed to. We Christians like to think of death as a major change of address, but in any case, the person will live again fully in your heart...if you don't seal it off.
13:48
But their absence will also be a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.
Grief and friends, time and tears will heal you to some extent. Tears will bathe and baptize and hydrate and moisturize you and the ground on which you walk.
Randy Pausch - dying of cancer, he gave a great lecture about what drove him through his amazing career. "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" “The brick walls are there for a reason. ... The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.”
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