Posts Tagged ‘optimism’

The last birthday post

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

You all saw the message the universe sent me today, right?
Your positive omens don’t get more explicit than that.

A Very Happy Thought

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

There is some conventional wisdom that experience brings a certain necessary cynicism. That having seen it all before removes the shine from life. That there are always some disappointments, and they accrete over time into a dull patina between us and our experience of the world.
Me, I think that’s certainly understandable, but not necessary.
And today, [...]

From Russell’s Autobiography

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I am learning much about growing old. Thirty-five years ago I was lately married, childless, very happy, and beginning to taste the joys of success. Family appeared to me as an external power hampering to freedom: the world, to me, was a world of individual adventure. I wanted to think my own thoughts, find my [...]