The Bodega at the End of the Internet

“The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you’re passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated. It’s a simple concept, but an extremely powerful one because what it implies is that you can

at the end I hardly knew who I was or what I was doing.

Later the two of them had strolled through the azalea-shaded cloister of the parish patio. They sat beneath an arbor where grapes were ripening.

"They're bitter, Father," the priest anticipated Father Renteria's question. "We live in a land in which everything grows, thanks to God's providence; but everything that grows is bitter. That is our

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

If you find yourself dreading Mondays, quit.