I MADE IT.
No more commitments, complications, entanglements.
I’ll now embrace a radical simplicity, letting go of wasteful speech, costume, display. Be more sufficient unto myself.
No more chasing the rat. Who needs money and possessions?
Time to follow my BLISS.
🙂
related – Freedom 55: The whole idea is so 1980s
Dave linked to this on Facebook.
The gift that keeps on giving.
♥ Freedom from speech. ♥
… People wonder why I don’t want to have a phone number.
Thanks Dave.
That’s a phrase you’ve never read before.
It’s from an obituary of Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld – dead at 88:
… En route to his execution in Auxerre, La Rochefoucauld made a break, leaping from the back of the truck carrying him to his doom, and dodging the bullets fired by his two guards. Sprinting through the empty streets, he found himself in front of the Gestapo’s headquarters, where a chauffeur was pacing near a limousine bearing the swastika flag. Spotting the key in the ignition, La Rochefoucauld jumped in and roared off, following the Route Nationale past the prison he had left an hour earlier.
He smashed through a roadblock before dumping the car and circling back towards Auxerre on foot under cover of night. He sheltered with an epicier. From Auxerre, friends in the Resistance helped him on to a train for Paris, where he evaded German soldiers hunting him by curling up underneath the sink in the lavatory. “When we arrived in Paris I felt drunk with freedom,” he recalled. …
read more about his amazing life on Telegraph
(via Kottke)
read this – Buzzfeed – 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
… Chicago Christians who showed up at a gay pride parade to apologize for homophobia in the Church.
I recall the day I met Kyle. He was age-6 or 7.
… seems just a few years ago.
Kyle:
On May 6th, I turned 30. In celebration, I ran 33km’s. It was my longest run yet and it felt pretty awesome. …While running, I had some time to think and ponder what entering my 30’s means to me. …
In my 30’s, I will:
Be FEARLESS
Be decisive
Let go of my perfectionism
Manage my time and energy more wisely
Make health and activity my #1 priorities
Take on new scary audacious challenges
Stop trying to please everyone
Have more productive screen time
Simplify email: I’m checking it twice a day and that’s it.
Take BIG risks
Create opportunities rather than wait for them to happen
Do things rather than think about doing them
Publish books
Finish what I’ve started
Re-organize and down-size
Take more pictures
Have more dinner parties
Have less stress
Be more appreciative
Enjoy my life
KyleShewfelt.com – Thirties Manifesto
Wise beyond his years.
just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there
Thanks Kate.
My personal philosophy now has a catchy acronym – LOVOS.
… oriented to health and sustainability; and … critical of consumption and consumerism. …
Unfortunately it doesn’t really dovetail with my new religion, the Missionary Church of Kopimism.
“In our belief, communication is sacred.”
Rick McCharles 