After-Orts
#138
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Less is more. Appreciate what you have. Jesus said so and so did Buddha and Emily Dickinson and Buster Keaton. This is the great lesson of old age. Give up wanting the monumental, the dream home, the trophy husband, the hit show, the Medal of Honor, .... Accept the Good Enough. ....Jesus said, “Think not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink. Ask your wife.” And so I content myself with a kale salad and a glass of cold tap water out of the faucet, and content leads to contentedness. Just as Buddha said. Mysterious, but it really works.
-- Garrison Keillor
A guy walks into the doctor's office with a piece of lettuce on his head, a green bean sticking out of each nostril, and a carrot protruding from his ear. He says, "Doc, I don't feel so good.”
The doctor looks at him and says, "You're not eating right."
-- via Alexandra Petri
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/19/alexandra-petri-live-chat/