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Music, food, books, life – @HardenKurt

All life is at Cultural Offering, including…

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgement and should be trusted with nothing.

Clive James

and…

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

Frédéric Chopin

Among the many gems I’ve gathered from Kurt is the Frank Sinatra album, In The Wee Small Hours.

I discovered only yesterday that the cover of Tom Waits’ The Heart of Saturday Night was based on the sleeve of the Sinatra album.

Image: Kurt Harden.

Reminders for life…

Dip into these insights and reminders from Nicholas Bate…

Life Reminder 23

Play more music, more often. It can only make you feel better.

Life Reminder 22

The deepest thinking coincides with the most brisk of walking. Rain or shine.

Life Reminder 18

Whatever you do, do it well. You feel good and you become indispensable.

Seek out the rest, and more, here.

Photo by Simon Noh on Unsplash

Small but important thoughts…

…from Patrick Rhone.

Mostly here: Rhoneisms at PatrickRhone.net.

But also here: TheCramped.com – Celebrating The Unique Pleasures of Analog(ue) Writing.

And his books, here: PatrickRhone.com. Looking back, I see I read Patrick’s Some Thoughts About Writing back in 2014, so I’ve been following him since before then.

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Stoics, stoicism, Marcus and more…

…with The Daily Stoic.

DailyStoic.com started life in support of the book by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, The Daily Stoic – 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living.

The site is now a rich resource of Stoic Wisdom and, because I read new pearls of that wisdom every day via the daily newsletter, I include it on the list.

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