It’s the final day of Dog and Cat week. Enjoy it, it’s what you were meant to do! That doesn’t mean you feel joy all the time. It simply means you pursue joy and happiness. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s selfishness. Do it right and you will end up helping your family, friends, co-workers, [...]
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The Pessimist and the Case of the Missing Wisdom
It’s day 6 of Optimism/Pessimism week at the NDD Is your pessimism actually cowardice in disguise? It makes sense, since we don’t really like to face our weaknesses, nor even acknowledge we have them in many cases, that we would build a world view that turns our personal feelings of impotence, incompetence and inadequacy into [...]
Bible Wisdom – Neighbors and Enemies
Bible Wisdom by The Napkin Dad Actually, I have always had pretty good luck with neighbors. We did have one crotchety, cranky old man a few doors down when our kids were little. He yelled at them for walking on his lawn and ‘climbing’ his chain link fence. By ‘climbing’ I mean touching and holding [...]
Self-Conscious vs Self-Aware
self-consciousness coffee mug by The Napkin Dad It’s funny how close being self-conscious is to being self-aware. Actually, aren’t they the same? One is conscious of self, one is aware of self. Same. But that really isn’t the case. Self-consciousness isn’t really about being aware of self, it’s about being aware of what other’s think of [...]
>Pain Makes People Think
>A vintage napkin from 2000. Drawn for my daughters and put in their lunches for school. No, I don’t remember why I drew a toilet saying this quote. I do believe the quote is true so I don’t think I was trying to say it was a waste product. Maybe I thinking that even people [...]
