Obligation

We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.

~ Bill Murray

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Hand-made Vanilla extract

Experimenting with coconut flour pancakes this morning. Second batch, “shall we add some vanilla?” …you mean the vanilla extracted using BOURBON which our brother-in-law makes by hand. OMG. YES. PLEASE. @geometress is a keeper!!

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Community

This is the sort of thing that turns a ‘gym’ into the center of a community. Quick! …go get a laminated map and straight pins. Bonus points for color coding pin heads. @ppkphilly

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Half-hearted, lazy effort

As we get older, failure is not so inconsequential anymore. What’s at stake is not some arbitrary grade or intramural sports trophy, but the quality of your life and your abiity to deal with the world around you.

Don’t let that intimidate you, though. You have the best teachers in the world: the wisest philosophers who ever lived. And not only are you capable, the professor is asking for something very simple: just begin the work. The rest follows.

~ Ryan Holiday, from The Daily Stoic

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Confused I may be

Training with the French in Jersey… New Jersey that is, Princeton. PPK gym number two for me w @pinnacleparkour @teddybearparkour

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The Myth of Sisyphus

But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

~ Albert Camus

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