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🎩 One Theme → No One Knows A Fucking Thing
😄 Funny Business → Artsy cafe names
📊 Community Poll → We clean ourselves up nicely
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No One Knows A Fucking Thing
Harvard Professor Dr. Edward Clarke’s book titled Sex In Education proclaimed if young women studied too much, they would divert blood away from the uterus to the brain, rendering themselves “irritable and infertile.”
Swing and a miss, Ed.
Cigarettes were not only allowed in hospitals, they were encouraged.
“Extra arsenic, please. I’m tryin’ to get healthy!”
Cocaine used to be given to children. How foolish we humans were!
We’ve evolved to amphetamine salts.
Many people have been killed because they suggested the Earth revolved around the sun.
I was reminded of this while on a flight a few days ago, watching Everything Everywhere All at Once:
If you haven’t discovered this movie yet…highly recommend.
A way to find comfort in uncertainty
No one knows a fucking thing.
Put another way…
No one knows a fucking thing!!
If you ever attend a live yoga class and notice everyone is looking around to see if they’re doing the pose “right”, this is accurate for all of life.
Everyone is winging it, looking at everyone else to try not to stick out as the one doing it wrong.
Trying to attune to other people’s way of living exhausts me. And because theirs is not the same as mine, I can never fully attune to them, and I get even more exhausted.
I don’t like being exhausted. So, I find comfort in the best solution I have, and that is living based on what feels right when I don’t look outward and instead look inward:
Lead with love. Extend kindness. Value myself. Value Earth. Value others. Don’t kill humans.
My simple yet concrete moral compass gives me the comfort to avoid politics, war, and any other “moral conundrum”. Because there’s no conundrum for me. There is no “yeah but what if this happened to you or your family or people of your religion?” that can cause my compass to malfunction for me.
If future me ever feels differently about this, I hope I find this post and read it again. And this one.
😄 Funny Business
I played a soccer game on the plane TV after the movie. These are the names they used (to presumably not get sued) next to the players’ actual names.
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If you’ve never seen Clunt Dempsly play, you’re missing out.
📊 Community Poll
Results for last week’s question: Do you clean your home before it gets professionally cleaned?
The massive dust bunny under the bed is living rent-free in our minds! Kudos to all the self-cleaners, it’s not easy.
On to this week’s question…
How do you pack for travel? |
🤝 Halp.
How you can help me:
Send me something funny and/or cute, please. I’ve been living out of a suitcase for 21 days and am tired!
How I can help you:
🐌Slow your self | 🔬Grow your business | 🧑🎨You tell me what could help |
 | Begin and end with love,  |
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If anyone can prove and show to me that I think and act in error, I will gladly change it—for I seek the truth by which no one was ever harmed. But they are harmed who abide in their error and ignorance. - Marcus Aurelius