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January's notebook
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"so much depends
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sit in the morning
brush your teeth
eat mindfully
wash your bowl
drink tea
walk slowly
read in silence
look at someone gratefully
work with focus
(thanks to the zenhabits website
http://zenhabits.net/archives/)
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decision to radically (actually, not radical at all) change certain habits, i.e. to not instinctively check e-mail or Blogs first thing, to not log on at work until a set time, to not fritter throughout the day on absent-minded searches, to not read news updates when all they do is reiterate the same depressing reports ...
... & instead ... do other (more rewarding) stuff ...
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"The proletarianisation of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is matched at the opposite extreme by the irrationally high remuneration of top managers and bankers (irrational since, as investigations have demonstrated in the US, it tends to be inversely proportional to a company's success). Rather than submit these trends to moralising criticism, we should read them as signs that the capitalist system is no longer capable of self-regulated stability - it threatens, in other words, to run out of control." (Slavoj Zizek, The LRB 26 January 2012)
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"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea...
S e n c h a I r i M a t c h a
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"from the foot of Mount Fuji"
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Wallace Stevens The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words
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& this arrives during the week ...
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Day is a type when visible
objects change then put
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