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Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (“This shouldn’t be happening!”), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
any dog that dies from “the inherent risks of wilderness travel” is deemed an “unpreventable hazard.
The Iditarod: How Long Is It and How Many Dogs Die in the Race?
Shad Clark
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
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