Why thinking of nothing can be so tiring: Brain wolfs energy to stop thinking
Links
somethingchanged:
If instead I see my value as separating the important from the unimportant and making good decisions on the important, then I can go home at a reasonable hour, spend time with my family, ignore my…
I want to give myself utterly as this maple that burned and burned for three days without stinting and then in two more dropped off every leaf; as this lake that, no matter what comes to its green-blue depths, both takes and returns it. In the still heart, that refuses nothing, the…
Krista Tippett, host
The crescent-topped dome of Masjid An-Nasr peeks through trees of a residential neighborhood in Oklahoma City. (photo: Andrew Shockley/Flickr)
My grandfather was the Reverend Calvin Titus Perkins, known by all as C.T. He was a Southern Baptist evangelist — a…
A couple of years ago, I read David Allen’s Getting Things Done. One of the results of reading the book and applying the GTD system is zero inbox. For I long time I thought zero inbox was a myth…. read more »
Ever since I heard Arvo Pärt’s ‘Cantique,’ I can’t escape it’s sublime power to transport me to another place outside this present time. The music moves at pace that contrasts with these modern… read more »
Southeast Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society usually meets on the first Tuesday of every month. On Saturday, September… read more »
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. – Socrates
More than one in five people listen to commercial radio each week according to a study conducted by ADM and Edison Research. Nearly four in five listen to audio podcasts each week. And that’s… read more »
Susan Carpenter Sims, guest contributor
I’m a research junkie and a word nerd. When I was in graduate school, I spent a year researching one of the earliest Old English poems, “The Dream of the Rood.” The project began as a lexical analysis for a linguistics class, and what I…
That vacation I had been planning to take in May, I finally took in August. So, 2300 miles later, here’s ten things I learned or observed on the road. 10. Sirius satellite radio. Channels of… read more »
She says to me, even Kerouac said that road trips have unexpected turns. He also wrote, “My witness is the empty sky.”
A Midwest downtown on a Sunday afternoon.
Quote: “Astonishment is the root of philosophy.”
~ Paul Tillich, The Writer’s Almanac
Coffeehouse Junkie 
