"Daddy, seriously! Put this online right now. People will be like What! The! Heck!" -6yo
"Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you get a million points?" -still 6yo.
"Can you believe there was a donkey in the playground?" -6yo going to bed on the best day of her life.
What a privilege to be tired from the work you prayed for. What a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about. What a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose. What a privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for.
Went to a coffee shop. Barista introduced himself. Nice guy. Smiles easily. Went back. He said hello. Called me by my name. Now I’ve gone seven days in a row because the barista feels like a neighborhood friend, and that’s how low the bar for service is these days.
ahhhh yes good morning let’s open up the Infinite Information River for a nice 20 minutes before getting out of bed or thinking any original thoughts at all
people like this always say this shit bc it sounds cool and tough; here’s the real question: would you suck off 1000 strangers to save a family member?
ok hear me out, they should play tv shows at movie theaters. then like "every tuesday at 8pm" you go see the next episode of Sopranos or whatever. and then you see the same people there each week and you're all watching the same show
If he asked multiple times, and you refused multiple times...
Why didn't you try to help save the victims on the island? You must have known something evil was happening there to keep refusing.
You act pious that you didn't go.
Complacency, Mr. Musk, is nothing to brag about.
A message from a Kindergarten teacher:
After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:
“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”
No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s
"You think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands?"
"Uh, yes?"
"and your plan is to blackmail this person? "
my most boomer take is that being endlessly gentle with yourself all the time and never forcing yourself to do anything you don’t want to do isn’t self care it’s lazy and it’s bad for you
Noah Schnapp recalls accidentally injuring Jake Connelly (Derek) while filming:
"When I am going to tackle Derek, I ran and accidently pinned him to the ground. His whole leg was scraped and bleeding. And I was like 'Oh my God, I hurt him'. But he rises out of the hay and goes,
I was raised around the church, and I wasn’t into it. I was never going to be the guy that believed in all this just because that was what was socially acceptable in my environment.
Over the years, I had gone back and forth, but it was never much of a priority. Fast forward to
The public library is a quiet place for quiet people. Since I retired, I go there three days a week. I sit in the corner, read historical biographies, and enjoy the air conditioning.
You see a lot of life happen in a library if you actually pay attention.
A few months ago, I