For those of us who live our lives in the real world, there is one branch of philosophy created just for us: Stoicism. It’s a philosophy designed to make us more resilient, happier, more virtuous and more wise–and as a result, better people, better parents and better professionals. Source: What Is Stoicism? A Definition & 9 Stoic Exercises To Get You Started
Want to go deeper? Check out this summary of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations…
Brian Johnson offer’s a great overview here but you have to create a free account…
The pandemic’s lockdowns and school closures put parents under unprecedented pressure—and moms, not dads, took the strain. Source: The Help That Never Came
When you are upset, your window is blurred. And…you’re going to straighten out all the buildings just because your window is blurred with the rain?
Could we clean our windows first?
We see people not as they are, but as we are. And it’s amazing how in the beginning we saw people as rude; then when we change, we see frightened people. They are so scared that they’re driven to hostility. Then you are understanding, you are compassionate, whereas before you’d react with anger, with hate.
Of course I had a crush on ONJ for most of my life. Didn’t you? What’s not to love? Here she is in the oft overlooked roller derby disco fantasy Xanadu — ONJ at her very best…
Me? I used to be a very black and white thinker and it make me miserable. It was only when I started to ‘think in the gray’ that life became much better. Use these strategies to feel happier. Source: How Flexible Thinking Leads to Greater Happiness
I hope you can live your life with slightly less firmly clenched fists and slightly more open hands. Slightly less control. Slightly more trust. Slightly less I need to know everything beforehand. Slightly more take life as it comes. It does all of us a world of good. Life doesn’t have to be lived with constant anxiety about things not turning out the way we want. We don’t have to make ourselves smaller than we are. We have a choice. Do we want to grab life by he throat or do we want to embrace it?
Relax that fist as often as you can.
Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, I May be Wrong, and other wisdoms from life as a Forest Monk.
Bright, Shiny Objects! 
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