Respect trivia.
For school kids, "trivia" means "won't be on the test."
In the absence of tests, where all of life is learning, there IS no "trivia." There is only information.
photo by Sandra Dodd, of tile in Austin
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I really didn’t like Sandra’s blog, sure there is a lot of useful information, but the “cheerful” tone creeps me out!A lot of useful information would be sufficient, I think, for a daily blog with over 800 subscribers. But I'm creeping someone out with a "'cheerful' tone"?! First, it's not "cheerful" in quotes, not allegedly cheerful. It actually *is* cheerful. 🙂
Living by principles is what helps us keep moving smoothly even though the terrain is new.
In every single case of real-life violence anyone can think of, wouldn't it have been better if the perpetrator had been home on the couch than out causing trouble? 🙂
Doing something "in fits and starts" means there are stretches of quiet nothing, and then suddenly things are happening. Then nothing, again, for a while. Learning is like that.
In the novel Shogun, the character Mariko says early on:
We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost, or lightning, or a tear, or siege, or storm, or sunset, or even like a rock.Try not to measure.