by Marty Coleman | Oct 29, 2010 | Anonymous, Stress - 2010 |
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Day #5 of ‘Stress Week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily and it’s a piece of cake!
Clinical studies have shown that 9 out of 10 people who start to eat dessert are less stressed than before they started eating. I don’t know where the clinic is that did that study, probably in the home town of Betty Crocker, but who cares. Eat dessert, live longer.
By the way, it wasn’t long ago that I used this quote on a napkin. I usually don’t do that, but I was out a coffee house being photographed for a magazine article. I knew they wanted to have pics of me drawing so I brought my markers and napkins, but forgot a quote book. So, I just started with a ‘stress’ quote off the top of my head. I liked the cake I drew so I thought I would just continue on with it and make it my day #5 napkin!
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by who knows.
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 28, 2010 | Marcus Aurelius, Stress - 2010 |
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It’s stressful coming to the end of ‘Stress Week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily!
I remember arguing with my wife about something she was worried about, afraid might happen. I was trying to argue rationally, giving her all the reasons not to worry. She finally had to stop me and say, ‘MARTY, it’s not a rational FEAR, you can’t argue it away with rational arguments!’
So, if your fear, stress, worry, anger, etc. is irrational, you must be irrational in your response to it, right? Oh, heck if I know. But…
It’s only a spider.
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Drawing and irrational commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by my favorite Roman Emperor. Can you guess who that is?
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 27, 2010 | Stress - 2010, Thomas Carlyle |
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The pressure is on during ‘stress week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily!
Stress is bad. Stress is pressure that has no outlet, no direction. But pressure can be a good thing. What’s good about pressure? Pressure creates motivation. Motivation creates action. Action creates growth and results. The key is to take action.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, Scottish writer
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 25, 2010 | Anonymous, Stress - 2010 |
Don’t freak out, but it’s ‘stress week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily
‘What’s below’ means what is happening in your body and your mind that isn’t obvious. You feel stress the same way you can feel an ankle sprain. But there are also elements of stress you can’t feel. Your stressed body is weakened, easier to get sick. Your stressed mind is cognitively vulnerable and it is easy to lose track of what is important.
Really think through what is essential in the here and now. Let the rest go. You will either come back to it when it is a better time, or it will pass and prove to have not been that important in the first place.
Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman
“Stress is like an iceberg. We see 1/8 of it above, but what about what’s below?” – Anonymous
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 24, 2010 | Rebekah Coleman, Sketchbook History Tour |
Rebekah, our oldest daughter, was born with ‘double elevator palsy’ in one of her eyes. What that meant was that the muscles on the top of her eyeball weren’t strong enough to allow her to lift her eye up to the same degree as her ‘good’ eye.
She spent almost 9 years wearing a patch regularly on her good eye so that her ‘bad’ eye would remain strong. We would have her play video games with the patch on to help this along. As a result she is now not only a neuroscientist getting her Ph.D. but a wickedly good video game player!
This was drawn in the offices of Dr. Jompolsky in San Francisco, 1987.
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 23, 2010 | Texas, Travel Napkins, Waco |
I am down in Waco, Texas at the Baylor University homecoming. Our daughter, Caitlin, is a typical sleep-deprived, coffee-infused college student. Not enough time, too many obligations. Everything is hard and will end in certain disaster. Except it never does.
I really think college is much less about learning stuff and much more about learning yourself and your limits, and how many times you can go over that limit and still survive. So far, so good for Caitlin.
Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 21, 2010 | Are Your Rights Right? - 2010, John Wooden |
Day #3 of ‘Rights Weeks’ at The Napkin Dad Daily
I didn’t mean to start a series on rights this week. That’s why the series didn’t start until Tuesday. But after I did one and Wednesday rolled around with it’s purple push against bullying it naturally made me think more along those lines.
Here’s the thing about rights. True wisdom in morality and ethics is all about them. Knowing when you have them, when you don’t. When you can give them up and when you can’t. When you should give them up and when you shouldn’t. When to demand them, when to persuade them. When something, or someone, is more important than them, and when they are not.
I love this quote because it puts the other person in the forefront no matter what. That is the ultimate right, to choose our course of action. And the best course of action, just in case you are ever in doubt, is to always love the person in front of you.
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by John Wooden, 1910-2010, UCLA Basketball Coach
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 20, 2010 | Are Your Rights Right? - 2010, Robert Ingersoll |
Being purple today means you accept all people of any and multiple colors every day. Not just color of skin, but color of mind, heart, desire and body.
Give yourself over to celebrating those people who are not like you. Who wear clothes you would never wear, who say things in ways you would never say them, who think about the world in ways you hadn’t thought of.
Instead of judging people today, just enjoy them.
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Drawing and Commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Robert Ingersoll, 1833-1899, American orator. One of the most well known social and political leaders of the 19th century.
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 19, 2010 | Are Your Rights Right? - 2010, Harry Weinberger |
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But are we free to command obedience to that ‘wrong’ from others in politics, society, religion? No, we are not.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Harry Weinberger, 1924-2009, German-born British artist
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 15, 2010 | Memory - 2010, Venice |
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I am almost positive this is the last day of ‘Memory Week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily
I am not a big regret guy. But I do regret some things I did. I regret not treating my first wife better. I regret not working harder as an artist. But truly most of my regrets are about the things I didn’t do. Usually from lack of courage.
My daughters and I went to Europe in 2003, before I met Linda, my wife. We spent a few days in Venice, Italy and one evening we took a long water taxi ride. During the ride I went out back, away from my daughters, and met a couple with a third person. The third person was a attractive woman who was suppose to come with someone else but that person had bowed out at the last moment and as a result she obviously felt like a third wheel. She was funny, cute and endearing and I liked talking with her a great deal.
We had a very nice, animated conversation about all sorts of things; what we did, how we liked Europe, etc. They were going to a certain restaurant for dinner, we were going elsewhere. But the woman mentioned that after dinner she didn’t know what she was going to do. She didn’t want to hang out with the couple the entire time, wanting to give them some ‘alone’ time in the romantic environment.
I told her I wasn’t sure what we were going to do either. We continued to talk about this and that and then it was our stop to get off. I knew where she was going to dinner, and where she was staying. We got off, went to dinner and then walked around a bit until we went back to our B & B. It was an enjoyable evening.
But to this day, I regret not having made plans with that woman to meet up after our dinners and take a walk around Venice. I regret not telling my grown daughters I was going to take off for an hour or so after we got back to the B & B, and go and find the woman to take that walk. I don’t imagine a great love affair, I only imagine a nice walk with a new friend who I wanted to spend more time with.
Funny too, in the absence of actually having that memory, I have an imagined memory about what would have happened.
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Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Sydney J. Harris, 1917-1986, American Journalist
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