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What Is Really Going On

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There are several reasons why I shouldn’t tell you, but here it is anyway. We are allowing others to screw up the only life we will have on this earth. Not sometimes and lightly, but all the time and big time.

Those supposedly in-the-know pundits keep advising, urging, demanding, or warning us about the house we are about to buy, the vacation we are about take, the job we are about to accept, the restaurant we are about to visit, the new car we are thinking of buying, the book we are about to read, the doctor we use, the … Read the rest “What Is Really Going On”

The Art of Piddling

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Yes, my friends, today we talk about piddling. First, though, we must settle a couple of issues.

Namely, Webster has it all wrong in saying to piddle is to “waste time and dawdle” and that piddling is “trifling and negligible.” To the contrary, piddling is a valuable component in today’s living mix. That brings up the second issue.

We are on a treadmill and the techies keep increasing the speed — go fast, set alarms, cut corners, expedite, increase efficiency, accelerate, streamline, cram it in, toss it out, make a new to-do list, do it faster, run, shove, push, do … Read the rest “The Art of Piddling”