Category Archives: Comic

06-MAY

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Tree Trunk

Don’t strut too tall!

18-Rules to Live By

  1. Question every answer.
  2. Own all outcomes, good & bad.
  3. Be curious about what’s not right.
  4. Eschew comfort, but don’t give up seeking pleasure.
  5. Read books; only finish reading the good ones.
  6. Write the story of your life.
  7. Fix what you break; build what we need.
  8. Take care of yourself in order to take care of others.
  9. Surround yourself, on occasion, with pure silence.
  10. Calibrate the truth to tell.
  11. Tolerate imperfection.
  12. Look ahead, but act today.
  13. Start small and compound interest consistently.
  14. Quit bad moods; always remember the good times.
  15. Beat a day of distraction with one hour of intense effort.
  16. Stop what you’re doing and rest, then pace yourself.
  17. Explore your dreams at night.
  18. Direct your focus with a conditioning ritual:
    • Breathe
    • Gesture
    • Visualize

14-APR

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Mischievous

UPDATE 2026: What’s happening is the weather. Rain this morning, sunshine later today. It’s all good.

UPDATE 2025: “Don’t Die!” is something Voldemort would espouse. “Stay Alive!” is closer to the wizard, Harry Potter”.

UPDATE 2024: Beliefs: 1. Women have a choice 2. No doubt there is a Highest power 3. Science seeks the Truth 4. Sex, like art, is what you make it 5. All good people are welcome to be a great country, yet scoundrels slide. It’s best to have a bias toward goodness unless proven otherwise.

UPDATE 2023: While the snail & snake proved to be problematic, and the mollusk impossible, at least I think I’m over Covid-19. Got one new YOGA pose out of all the suffering. It’s called Sleeping Bear; a good body position for taking the next breath while trying to sleep in the middle of the night.

From 2022: What is on his mind?

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, having nothing to do: once she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures in it. “What is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?” ~Lewis Carroll

30-MAR

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Daylight

Daylight Savings

Change the clock twice a year, or else some places will need to adjust their operating hours.

Crank an Hour

Going back to permanent Daylight Savings Time has been tried before, and failed after two years.

What is the issue about the light & night that we keep forgetting?

28-MAR

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Bibliotheca

Reading Books by Roz Chast

Things form in my brain. They get bigger & bigger until I must write them down to free up some space in my head.

It’s the same way a chicken lays an egg. When people eat that egg, the chicken is probably thinking, Really? You like that? It just came out of my butt.

Mike Reiss in Springfield Confidential

13-MAR

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Sniffing

Make Planning a Habit

Every day at 1:15 pm, write down three tasks even if you don’t plan to do them right away. Notice the pattern.

Journal Entry (3/3/23): One whole week (so far) with Covid-19, which up until now, had been avoided.

I’m grateful to modern medicine for keeping me alive; but humanity gets the blame for spreading this disease.