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Recent books

Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Why We Swim
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui

Hitler
Hitler
by Joachim Fest

Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer




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Quotes

words of wisdom

The people I love the best

8/24/20179/3/2017 facebook, QuotesNotes

The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.

–Marge Piercy

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On not “crushing it” when swimming

6/23/20175/13/2018 Quotes, swimmingNotes

“We come into temporary harmony with the water, and are fortunate to sometimes be allowed to pass through.”

Evan Morrison, open-water marathon swimmer, who notes that it echoes:

“The best one can hope for is to come to an agreement with a body of water on any given day.”… Read the rest

Aside

The man with the most

5/1/2017 QuotesNotes

“Swimming cultivates imagination; the man with the most is he who can swim his solitary course night or day and forget a black earth full of people that push.”

–Annette Kellermann

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We are Lent into Each Other’s Keeping

3/6/20173/6/2017 QuotesNotes

Here’s a lovely turn of phrase from a friend of Tomasz Tunguz:

The entire story reminded me of an old friend who often tells me, “We are lent into each other’s keeping.” Our time with each other is borrowed, its duration is unknown, and that uncertainty makes it precious.

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So in all the delights of the world almost

1/28/20175/13/2018 QuotesNotes

A gentleman never dances so well as the dancing master, and an ordinary fiddler makes better musique for a shilling than a gentleman will do after spending forty, and so in all the delights of the world almost.

–The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Weds.… Read the rest

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If language is not correct

11/21/20165/9/2018 QuotesNotes2 Comments

​“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion.… Read the rest

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A hundred bad songs

10/29/201611/21/2016 facebook, QuotesNotes

“Everything worth doing takes time. You have to write a hundred bad songs before you write one good one. And you have to sacrifice a lot of things that you might not be prepared for. Like it or not, you are in this alone and have to follow your own star.”… Read the rest

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7/15/201611/21/2016 QuotesNotes

“I have to say, I get a lot of inspiration from just going out and pretending I’ve never been to this planet before. It’s a great way to remember just how absurd, strange, beautiful, and unlikely everything is around you.”

Brendan Constantine

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7/8/201611/21/2016 QuotesNotes

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

—Muriel Rukeyser

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Salt water.

6/23/201611/21/2016 QuotesNotes

“Do you know a cure for me?” “Why yes,” he said, “I know a cure for everything. Salt water.” “Salt water?” I asked him. “Yes,” he said, “in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”

–Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen)

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