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If you, like me, sometimes find yourself feeling a little bitter about having to parent, try an “opposite signal” strategy: When you are annoyed that family needs are impinging on your individual desires, take it as a sign that you need to focus more on family, not less.
The Things That Make Fathers Happiest - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com
The wheelwright sees meaningful distinctions in the wood—distinctions of worth and of quality—that in no way find their source in him. The skilled craftsman does not decide to treat the ash as if it were “frow as a carrot,” the way David Foster Wallace decides to treat the lady in the checkout line as if she were on her way to the hospital. Rather, the fact of the matter is out in the world. The task of the craftsman is not to generate the meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill for discerning the meanings that are already there.
All Things Shining
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
Cheap products, made poorly and thrown away quickly, are killing people and the planet.
Opinion | Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard On the High Stakes of Low Quality - The New York Times
Yvon Chouinard
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