I so appreciate getting to know Corinna through these posts- I like learning about your friendship and how you clicked and didn’t. Not all of us get a friend like that and so it makes me happy - and of course sad-.
I LOVE the illustration! My niece and her husband live in Brooklyn in an apt but I don’t think they are looking-I’ll ask.
Can’t speak about Jill, but what you do it’s important to you so do you.
Love knowing about your cooking habits! So like me. So many more interesting things to do.
I don't know about Jill Lepore and marathons, but she does (or at least did) ride her Cannondale Bad Boy bicycle to work every day, which is the same bicycle I've been riding to work (not every day) for the last 20+ years. And you are, of course, spectacular for writing and not writing because you instead choose to do all the wonderful things you do instead.
Please write as many Corinna posts as you want! And while I generally agree that it’s true that you can find out what matters to someone by seeing what they do, we can also get in our own way and not do the things we want to. I mean, philosophers have debated about it (the term akrasia comes to mind—not everyone believes in it) but I genuinely think there can be a gap between what we value and what we do. Even though I also believe that in the end outcome matters more than intent, so I’m not really disagreeing, just musing.
Yes and there should be a million more caveats about how circumstances don’t allow lots of people to do what they want to do. Avoidance and fear and all those inhibitors are real…but so are choices, especially when you are fortunate to have them. That’s how I got to the dinner revelation. So many people complain about having to make dinner, and I’m just like, you don’t! There’s toast! Frozen pizza! Takeout! Eating is not a choice but making dinner is. And that’s great. I am surrounded by people who choose making dinner and I choose…truly anything but making dinner. Damn, I probably just wasted an entire post on a sentence and a comment. Maybe the point is really that we should be mindful about what is and isn’t a choice, for each of us, and appreciative of the choices we have.
your Corinna posts always make me cry. i am sad to never have met her
I don’t see how you never met her!
I so appreciate getting to know Corinna through these posts- I like learning about your friendship and how you clicked and didn’t. Not all of us get a friend like that and so it makes me happy - and of course sad-.
I LOVE the illustration! My niece and her husband live in Brooklyn in an apt but I don’t think they are looking-I’ll ask.
Can’t speak about Jill, but what you do it’s important to you so do you.
Love knowing about your cooking habits! So like me. So many more interesting things to do.
You are one of my role models for interesting things to do - and writing about them!
I don't know about Jill Lepore and marathons, but she does (or at least did) ride her Cannondale Bad Boy bicycle to work every day, which is the same bicycle I've been riding to work (not every day) for the last 20+ years. And you are, of course, spectacular for writing and not writing because you instead choose to do all the wonderful things you do instead.
Please write as many Corinna posts as you want! And while I generally agree that it’s true that you can find out what matters to someone by seeing what they do, we can also get in our own way and not do the things we want to. I mean, philosophers have debated about it (the term akrasia comes to mind—not everyone believes in it) but I genuinely think there can be a gap between what we value and what we do. Even though I also believe that in the end outcome matters more than intent, so I’m not really disagreeing, just musing.
Yes and there should be a million more caveats about how circumstances don’t allow lots of people to do what they want to do. Avoidance and fear and all those inhibitors are real…but so are choices, especially when you are fortunate to have them. That’s how I got to the dinner revelation. So many people complain about having to make dinner, and I’m just like, you don’t! There’s toast! Frozen pizza! Takeout! Eating is not a choice but making dinner is. And that’s great. I am surrounded by people who choose making dinner and I choose…truly anything but making dinner. Damn, I probably just wasted an entire post on a sentence and a comment. Maybe the point is really that we should be mindful about what is and isn’t a choice, for each of us, and appreciative of the choices we have.
By wasting I mean that could have been a post in itself though probably this one is sufficient
There’s probably still a post in this topic! I doubt you’ve exhausted it.