After-Orts #137
... keep the gem statement in the center. If my brother and I are fighting over our dad’s health care, we may be disagreeing about that, but we both want what’s best for our dad, and that’s the gem statement. If you’re in the middle of a disagreement and you can return to the gem statement, then you preserve the relationship amid your argument.
-- David Brooks, NYT, Oct.24, 2023
Read or listen here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/opinion/loneliness-solution-fuller-human.html?showTranscript=1
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating -
from Maria Popova’s magnificent blog The Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/16/the-sound-of-a-wild-snail-eating/
I only know two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.
— attributed to Ulysses S. Grant, but with a tangled history:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/26/two-tunes/