Royal road to simplicity →

Published January 12, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 12  ·  ,

No character can be simple unless it is based on truth — unless it is lived in harmony with one’s own conscience and ideals. Simplicity is the pure white light of a life lived from within. It is destroyed by any attempt to live in harmony with public opinion. Public opinion is a conscience owned by a syndicate — where the individual is merely a stockholder. But the individual has a conscience of which he is sole proprietor. Adjusting his life to his own ideals is the royal road to simplicity. Affectation is the confession of inferiority; It is an unnecessary proclamation that one is not living the life he pretends to live.

~ William G. Jordan

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Allez →

Published January 12, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 12  ·  

Relax, find a croissant…

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Le Projet →

Published January 11, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 11  ·  

Wonderful food and laughter with new friends after our last eve at ADD Quebec!

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Swirl →

Published January 11, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 11  ·  

Julia spotted this swirl on rue St Jean.

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You don’t have a job, you have a hobby →

Published January 11, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 11  ·  

That’s the only test that counts. It’s not how hard you work, it’s what happens if you stop. If quitting means real hardship for you or your family, you have a job. If you keep at it even though you could spend the rest of your life skipping rocks at your house by the lake, you have a hobby.

I’ve got nothing against hobbies. The Weekly Sift is a hobby. One way to describe the Marxist vision of Utopia is that we’d all be hobbyists, and the world’s work would get done by people who just wanted the satisfaction of doing it. (That vision even works sometimes: Wikipedia, open source software, and so on.)

~ Doug Muder from, Rich People Don’t Have Jobs

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Overcoming instant gratification →

Published January 10, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 10  ·  

The second way of living is the opposite: eat simple food in moderation, enjoy the Internet but with limits so that we can focus on important work, get away from TV and computers once in awhile to enjoy nature and being active and exercising, shopping less and having less possessions, finding focus and being mindful. It’s not that we don’t indulge in the treats of the first way, but we do it with a little restraint, and consciousness.

~ Leo Babauta from, A Brief Guide to Overcoming Instant Gratification

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Terrasse Dufferin →

Published January 9, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 9

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Porte Prescott →

Published January 9, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 9

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Steps →

Published January 9, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 9  ·  

Quebec purchased stairs wholesale. LVPK shall return for QM.

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Rue de Petit Champlain →

Published January 9, 2015  ·  All posts on Jan 9