I’ve been experimenting lately with Intermittent Fasting. I decided to try the 16/8 variation where I have a feeding window of 8 hours and fast for 16 hours. It’s been going well. Got a bit of a binge thing going on after breaking the fast but I’m adjusting and I think I’ll continue with it for a while. I won’t go into the benefits or the why of it. There are pleanty of articles and resources about Intermittend Fasting online.
However, I want to explore an idea I had last night while meditating. (On one of those mind wanderings). …
Words can be a powerful inspiration. Every year I save good quotes that I stumble upon into my journal. The quotes can be from anywhere, even Reddit. Here are some of the quotes that inspired me in 2015:
Lao Tzu on knowledge:
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day.
Tim Kreider on the end of life:
I suspect that the way I feel now, at summer’s end, is about how I’ll feel at the end of my life, assuming I have time and mind enough to reflect: bewildered by how unexpectedly everything turned out, regretful about all the things I didn’t get around to, clutching the handful of friends and funny stories I’ve amassed, and wondering where it all went. And I’ll probably still be evading the same truth I’m evading now: that the life I ended up with, much as I complain about it, was pretty much the one I chose. …
Last updated: January 6, 2019.
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Meditation on Entertainment
According to my Kindle I’ve got 17 hours and 45 minutes left in the book that I am currently reading. I’ve got dozens books bought and lined up for after I finish the current one. This is including the 1006 page Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell novel by Susanna Clarke and Walden. Oh why did I want to read Walden?
I’ve got 14 unwatched movies and 34 unwatched TV shows in Plex.
I recently aquired a Playstation 4. I have about 20 games installed at the moment. I’ve only finished two of them and by finish I don’t mean “platinum finish” which seems to be the proper way to finish games these days. …
