Category: Ways
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Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing:
The Lost Art of Boredom & Internal Rebellion in an Attention Economy So today I learned the proper spelling of Tchotchke. In the past, when I spelled it, I did so phonetically: “Chochky, Chauchkey, Chatchki,” etc. The spelling and its historical roots are more interesting than I had thought. I would’ve bet on the phrase
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Climb That Mountain
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing the lawn, climb that goddamn mountain.” Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums Let me just start off by saying a lot has changed since my last blog post. At the time of my last post I was only about a year