Steve P Brady

Stop scrolling. You can’t give your energy to what really matters if you think that everything matters.

My @nhlbruins.bsky.social traded the captain and 15 year Bruin Brad Marchand which means I'm done with them. Consider me a full time Professional Women's Hockey League fan now. Go Fleet!

It can double as cardio that way!

He wrote Siddhartha - one of the greatest novels of all time.

Success is a distraction.

YouTube video by Jared Henderson How work took over our lives

Cool channel and he's talking about one of my favorite philosophers- Josef Pieper. youtu.be/BvGDdV83jnY?...

"All the unhappiness of men comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to remain quietly in a room."

— Blaise Pascal

Is there going to be a web version eventually?

Just added this to my TBR list. What a cool concept for a book.

Watching the sun rise from the same window I looked out for almost 30 years. If you've stayed in one place long enough, today's view always carries echoes of yesterday's.

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🤔Got me. We put them on our tires in the winter for snow traction.

As a believer in reading being a catalyst for change I try to recommend books to my mailing list. Starting this Sunday I'm going to share here as well.

*Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life* by Beth Kempton. Embrace imperfection, impermanence, and simplicity.
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Just watched 10 mins of the Air Guitar championship on The Ocho.

We really are witnessing the end of Western civilization aren't we?

2 quotes for the announcing -

"There's a spiritual component....

"He's tonguing his guitar...

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“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”

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"“I look up at the sky, wondering if I'll catch a glimpse of kindness there, but I don't. All I see are indifferent summer clouds drifting over the Pacific. And they have nothing to say to me."

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence."

“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone."

"Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—and for me, for writing as well. "

Some of my favorite quotes from *What I Talk About When I Talk About Running* by Haruki Murakami

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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin

Never been so ashamed to be an American. Know that it's not all of us.

Just looked it up- 40/1. Insane!

F*ck that!
Repeat after me, "You are not your job."

We once tapped our maple tree when the kids were young. Amazing how much sap is required for a little bottle of syrup!

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Move it to a leather couch next to a wood burning stove in said coffee shop and I'm there!

Performative masculinity is probably one of the worst outcomes of the social media era.

Begs the question- What exactly do they think "minimum" means?

Getting cautiously optimistic about this season. 🤞

Parent conference day and I have a total of 7 parents. Seven! Four this afternoon and three tonight. Never been so slow. Guess I’ll get some reading done, which is nice because I need to finish Murakami’s This is What I Talk about When I Talk about Running before this weekend.

I know a lot of people love things like Notion and Obsidian, but I’m an old fashioned Google Docs guy. I use Gmail, Gcal and Tasks so it just makes sense.

Reworked my note keeping system since I learned about the document tabs function. Much cleaner way to store my templates and project files.