What major historical events do you remember?
From the Iranian Hostage Crisis onward, pretty much all of them — given they were considered “major” in whatever place I was living at the time.
PROMPT: Historical Events
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PROMPT: Risk
What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to?
Fully embrace the crazy, in the manner of Diogenes, Blake, or Drukpa Kunley.
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PROMPT: Don’t Know
What’s something most people don’t know about you?
Some people who know me (and most people who don’t) might not know that I would never announce something on a public forum that the people who know me don’t already know. I’m strangely private that way.
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PROMPT: Lazy Days
Rested. Definitely. I believe one has to think of rest and recovery as part of the process of living. If one thinks of it as just wasting time between “doing things,” then one isn’t going to get the most out of body and mind.
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PROMPT: Successful
Daily writing prompt
When you think of the word “successful,” who’s the first person that comes to mind and why?
Diogenes [of Sinope] and – also – Drukpa Kunley. Each of them spoke his mind, lived by his own rules, never wore a mask, and could not be controlled. They were truly free.
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PROMPT: Neighbor
Knows when to mind their business and when to call the cops.
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PROMPT: First Time
Skydiving comes to mind. Particularly, because it seems like something that I’d like to do once, but then would have no pressing urge to repeat it, having had the experience. There are a lot of things in this world that I could try for the first time, but I’m getting old to be trying anything that might become an ongoing competing demand for my time and energy. For example, I’ve thought of doing scuba, but that seems like it would become a whole ordeal of maintaining certifications and feeling the need to keep doing it.
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PROMPT: Principles
What happens in the external world does not DETERMINE one’s mental / emotional experience.
It’s better to see oneself as a student than as a master — at any stage of life and development.
Be tolerant. No one knows enough to justify smug superiority.
Self-expression is what we live for, and it is curtailed to everyone’s detriment.
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PROMPT: A Million Dollars
Daily writing prompt
If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
That’s a tough one. It wouldn’t be an alma mater because I agree with John Mulaney that colleges are like the heroin-addicted relative who is forever asking everyone for money. Collecting money from so many sources (tuition, grants, sports team licensing, and donations — corporate & individual) and still raising tuition at a rate several times that of inflation does not speak to sound money management.
Disease research sounds like a good idea… at first. Except a huge portion of it is done in the United States, and America is number one in per capita medical expenditures (by a large margin) while being around 20th in health outcomes. This, also, doesn’t speak to great money management. If the solution was a million-dollar medicine or a billion-dollar surgery they would find it, but if the solution is a ten-dollar medicine or a free exercise, there’s not a chance.
A social program would be a great idea if I could find one that didn’t make it cheaper / easier to make more human beings. Probably the single biggest problem of the planet is that people already don’t treat the decision to have children as a decision, but rather treat it as some sort of Pavlovian response to reaching a certain birthday.
So, I guess I’m left with leaving it to a random person on the street corner who seems nice enough. Then, I wouldn’t have any expectations that it would amount to anything. Ooh… could I give it to a street dog with no human middleman? That’s the one.
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PROMPT: Can’t Fail
Daily writing prompt
What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail.
Anything for which one is guaranteed not to fail sounds boring and not worth doing. [Not to mention, fictitious.]
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