Philosophy demands self-restraint, not self-abnegation—and even self-restraint can comb its hair. The limit I suggest is this: Our habits should mingle the ideal with the ordinary in due proportion, our way of life should be one that everyone can admire without finding it unrecognizable.
~ Seneca, Moral Letters, 5.5
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I’m a little behind :) this episode of The Creatively Engaging is from 4 years ago, but is worth listening to.
About halfway through Anna and Monika start talking about what it was like to play the specific piece of music. There’s an interesting discussion about staying in the tension of being out of perfect timing… which all struck me as related to doing work as a creative in general.
@brucedevereux was also on Podtalk back at, https://forum.podcaster.community/t/persistence-with-bruce-devereux/540
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I saw this the other day (via https://podnews.net/ ). A process for adopting new podcast standards…
https://podstandards.org/2025/10/21/a-process-for-adopting-new-podcast-standards/
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Clearheadedness and action are not always enough, in politics or in life. Some obstacles are beyond a snap of the fingers or novel solution. It is not alway possible for one person to rid the world of a great evil or stop a country bent toward conflict. Of course, we try—because it can happen. But we should be ready for it not to. And we need to be able to find a greater purpose in this suffering and handle it with firmness and forbearance.
~ Ryan Holiday, from The Obstacle is the Way
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I saw this magazine a year (or more?) ago and seriously considered subscribing.
Has anyone read any of them?
Recent PodNews post has discount subscription pricing (and more details)…
https://podnews.net/press-release/good-tape-threat
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And this final one is unlike any Iris I’ve ever seen.
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Second of three from a recent trip to a grower who specializes in them.
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First of three, beautiful Irises from a recent trip to a grower who specializes in them.
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Bruce, deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.
~ Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins (2005)
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Me, the other day after hearing a brief mention of a new-to-me-word on a podcast: “Is there a Greek work, something like (sounds like) tem-in-oss, that has to do with a special protected place of healing, particularly out in nature?”
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You’re likely thinking of temenos (τέμενος), pronounced roughly “TEM-eh-nos.”
In ancient Greek, a temenos was a sacred precinct or sanctuary—a piece of land marked off and dedicated to a god or gods. These were often places of worship and healing, particularly sanctuaries dedicated to Asclepius (the god of medicine), where people would go for ritual healing practices.
The term literally means “a piece of land cut off” (from the verb τέμνω, “to cut”). These sacred spaces were set apart from ordinary use, often located in natural settings like groves or near springs, and served as protected places for religious activities, healing rituals, and refuge.
In Jungian psychology, Carl Jung later adopted “temenos” to describe a protected psychological space for inner work and transformation—which connects nicely to the original sense of a sacred, healing precinct.