“We have simply lost this innate romanticism that made life a wonderful experience when we felt more and did not know so much.” ~Manly P. Hall

“There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of a single candle.” ~Manly P. Hall

I will forever try to spread my peanut butter with ripples like this -- and forever fail 🥜

You owe your kids a good life and should never act like everything you did in raising them was a favor they need to repay. It’s your duty as a parent to give them everything you possibly can and the “reward” should be seeing your kids successful and happy.

Yes, affairs are, among other things, massive failures of imagination. A quick story: Years ago, a neighbor of mine called me and asked to talk. He'd (literally) already packed his bags. He was moving out of his house, leaving behind his wife and little daughter. I was completely shocked. He'd grown completely infatuated with a coworker, and was going to move in with her and start a new life. His wife still wanted to make it work, and asked him to at least call me before he left. I went to his house. We talked for more than two hours. And here's what I did: I told him all the things that were going to happen because of this for the rest of his life. I was familiar with this, because I went through all this as a kid, and my dad is STILL suffering because of his actions. To this day. I just went down the list: Christmases without his little girl; he won't get to coach her T-ball team, sitting separately at weddings or graduations, so many specific and lasting regrets. Not to mention the likely failure of the next relationship. To his great credit, and despite his temporary overwhelming feelings, he stayed. I've lost touch with him over the years, but I'm confident he doesn't regret that. Desires limit our view. We have to have an expanded vision to avoid becoming slaves to them. We become slaves to them at our peril, and the great peril of those around us, people whom we purport to love.

We’ve already seen typography begin to shift, but I think 2026 will push branding further toward ornamentation and away from millennial beige and grey. This follows the broader move toward maximalism we identified last year, visible in moments like Ralph Lauren’s opulent Christmas campaigns replacing minimalist aesthetics.

Currently reading Jane Eyre for the first time (?!) I'm loving it! Pride and Prejudice next?

Does apple late in the day make babies stay up an hour past bedtime 🙃 because that's what happened yesterday 🍎

"My parents have been married for 75 years but few have noticed. Most of their friends have died. I contacted 6 local news stations and the Union Tribune newspaper giving details so they could do a story on their lives. Not one response from anyone. I think living into your 90's and staying married 75 years is quite an accomplishment. If you agree, please like and share my post. I want to show them people do care." Credit Eileen Atkinson

Not for nothing, but Charlie Kirk married a woman five years older than he. Mrs. Charlie Kirk will be 37 in November. She also double majored in political science and international relations. She played basketball at the collegiate level. She was Miss Arizona USA and competed for Miss USA. She has a Juris Master degree and a doctorate in Christian leadership. She worked in modeling, acting, and as a casting director. She’s the CEO of Proclaim Streetwear and Bible in 365. She has a podcast, and as of this year, she was apparently working as a real estate agent. All that to say that those spreading the lie that Charlie was some depraved misogynist who believed in denigrating women and needed some mousy wife at home to live under his boot, not only aren’t listening to his words but also aren’t looking at his life and the woman he chose to make a wife. Did he believe in biblical gender roles? Yes, it seems like he did. Did he question whether young women should go to college? Yes, but he also questioned whether young people should go at all. Did he fall in love with and make a wife of a Christian woman who had her own life and degrees and accomplishments and even—gasp—made her own money? Yeah, seems like he did. So can everyone just stop now?

If you try to save a drowning bee, it will sting you. This could be a proverb but also literally happened to my husband yesterday.

I'm a B.C. // A.D. kinda gal

“To grow in wisdom is a magnificent adventure.” ~Manly P. Hall

Doing hard stuff requires distress tolerance. Building distress tolerance requires doing hard stuff. There is no easy entry point. It gets easier by way of recognition. You think “I’ve been here before”. Pretty soon you’re seeking that state. That’s how you make hard stuff easy.

C.S. Lewis, the ultimate paragraph on temptation

This is how #RingsOfPower finds me after bearing witness to its massacre of the lore that I love.

Someone should show the #RingsOfPower showrunners these! I think they would be impressed. May help them find some material to adapt!

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Should everyday objects be beautiful, or useful? Here's how to fight back against functionality. And why beauty matters in the mundane... (thread) 🧵

Thread of last phone calls made by 9/11 victims to their loved ones 🧵 1. Jim Gartenberg, 86th floor