There's a line early in Pema Chödron's Living Beautifully that stuck out to me where she says (citing a neuroscientist) that emotions naturally last only a few seconds — that (as I understood it) we prolong emotions by our own choice. That rings true| Joe Cecil
It amazes me how much of my life is downstream of reading a Harry Potter fanfiction for the lulz on a whim when I was fourteen. I had been decidedly Christian; I became an atheist because of that fanfiction, first briefly then lastingly. I had been raised conservative, and at| Joe Cecil
I spoke to a lady recently who wanted to start a country bar. I thought that sounded like a pretty cool ambition, and I said so. I found it attractive — maybe the more so because she was willing to admit it out loud, when she might be subject to| Joe Cecil
(*and Twitterlikes [Mastodon, BlueSky, Substack Notes], and also a Discord that I'm in...) For fun/entertainment. To get news on e.g. DELTARUNE via Toby Fox's BlueSky, and on what Jon Simms is up to lately. To see random cat videos and similar things. Selected book| Joe Cecil