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Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
The Evening Meal—Cena The cena or evening meal was designed to include three courses. The first course was gustatio (taster or appetizer), meant to introduce a variety of tastes and textures. A typical appetizer was a combination of honeyed wine and tasty small tidbits. Roman cooks mixed ground seafood with exotic herbs and oil to create an unrecog
... See moreOri Hofmekler • The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body
there was a real vision of getting free from compulsive materialism, the confusion of goods with good.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Farthest Shore
your provincial governorship, and whatever promise these hold: higher offices await you, and one thing will lead to another. Where will it all end? 6 Why are you waiting until there is nothing more for you to want? That will never happen. We say there is a sequence of causes that constitutes the web of fate.* ° that there is a sequence of desires t
... See moreLucius Annaeus Seneca • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Feral women of all ages, and especially the young, have a tremendous drive to compensate for long famines and exiles. They are endangered by excessive and mindless striving toward people and goals that are not nurturant, substantive, or enduring. No matter where they live or in what time, there are cages waiting always; too-small lives into which w
... See moreDr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
When was the last time I ran free?
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
A perfect restaurant: linoleum and vinyl and hugging owners and a dusting of feta on all the food. Sometimes the giant windows were open to the street and the smelly sunshine poured in, but usually it was a place to hide from the rain, full of steaming wet coats and intense conversations. I went here with anyone and everyone, or with a book. One gr
... See moreClaire Dederer • Love and Trouble
nature given us such an insatiable maw that although the bodies we are given are of modest size, we yet surpass the largest, most ravenous eaters of the animal world? That is not the case, for how small are our natural requirements! It takes only a little to satisfy nature’s demands. It is not bodily hunger that runs up the bill but ambition.