I like to write 500 words a day. I enjoy running, and I make it a point to do so. It’s about understanding specific moments and reflecting on them. They say developing good habits like these can lead to great outcomes—so let’s see where this takes me. Of course, I don’t expect too much from the first few attempts, but it’s all about building momentum
Category: thoughts
Great ideas
From the Art Hotel in Nauders Austria.
Make your own dressing when you eat out. just one of the great ideas to come to from Austria. My favourite is still to come.
the idea I really like even more than this or perhaps what really annoys me is the small plastic throw away tubs of jam and butter across the UK. Which causes never ending amount of waste. Here they solve that by small washable glass bowls and a jam pump. Cool huh.
I am sure Cub Scouts could have Managed.
Why is DEFRA closing Forrest’s. I think the ranger enjoyed spending the hours putting the tape up and locks on gates. All because people cannot manage. Which is more worrying that people cannot manage risk or that we spent money stopping people from doing that. Doesn’t make sense. I am going to walk the dog.
The Little Virtues
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money, not caution but courage and contempt for danger: nor shrewdness but frankness and a love of the truth; not tact but love for one’s neighbour and self-deniel; Not at desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
We rush to teach them a respect for the little virtues, on which we build our whole system of education. In doing this we are choosing the easiest way. Because the little virtues do not involve any actual dangers, indeed they provide shelter from fortunes blow. We do not bother to teach the great virtues, though we love them and want our children to have them: but we nourish the hope that they will spontaneously appear in their future we think of them as being part of our instinctive nature, while the other, the little virtues seem to be a result of reflection and calculation and so we think that they absolutely must be taught.
Natalia Ginzburg – The Little Virtues