PROMPT: Admiration

Daily writing prompt
What is something others do that sparks your admiration?

Have intense confidence that they can achieve anything, but only when they’re not an ass about it. So, have humble confidence or cool confidence?

PROMPT: Trait

What’s the trait you value most about yourself?

The capacity to be perpetually perplexed.

FIVE WISE LINES [September 2025]

The aim of introduction is to conceal a person’s identity.

George Mikes, How To Be an Alien

From the beginning our philosophers have tried to teach us how to die,
and our poets have taught us that to contemplate death
is to learn to live.

Jonathan weiner, Long for this world

Nothing is harder to see into than people’s natures.

Zhuge liang [a.k.a. Kongming], The WAy of the General

To know how to eat is to know how to live.

Auguste Escoffier

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Mark twain

PROMPT: Personality Trait

Daily writing prompt
What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?

Dogmatic thinking and the humor blindspots that correspond.