Sublime

I talked to a friend who wants to start a blog and wanted some advice on that—how to find her voice and so on. A few random thoughts:

Once you realize that your most important job as a parent is to be a good role model, you go, oh, good dear. I need to improve. And that means kids are a wonderful forcing function for living a richer better life.

if you have a full long and healthy marriage, you're going to talk to each other for at 20,000 hours, so having good conversations is a pretty high value thing https://t.co/jUhbqHihMg

"Don't think, look!" might be the most useful piece of writing advice you can squeeze into 3 words. So much bad writing comes from people moving words about on the page, instead of staring at the real thing and then adjusting their words to fit it.

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."—Simone Weil