I just listened to Ethan Hawke on the Smartless podcast and was reminded of one of my favourite romantic films series, the Before Trilogy – Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) , and Before Midnight …
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The Before Trilogy
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Who’s on first?
Arlo found the wordplay on this sketch extremely funny.
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Last baseball team
This was the last organized baseball team that I played with. Back when baseball was fun and didn’t cost a fortune to play. I was in Grade 10 and Troy was in Grade 9. We …
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A sub sandwich everyday
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8 years
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Gotta love daddy and kid day
Biking (non-stop), a stop at the library, playing at Idiens park with Matilda and ending the day with collecting sea shells at the Point Holmes beach….there was something else, right strawberry ice cream drumstick from …
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Understanding is love’s other name
If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can’t accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform.
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. To know how to love someone, we have to understand them. To understand, we need to listen.
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When you love someone, you should have the capacity to bring relief and help him to suffer less. This is an art. If you don’t understand the roots of his suffering, you can’t help, just as a doctor can’t help heal your illness if she doesn’t know the cause. You need to understand the cause of your loved one’s suffering in order to help bring relief.
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The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand. They are two sides of one reality. The mind of love and the mind of understanding are the same.
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Good morning Mount Washington
The view from our deck.
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Good morning Mount Washington
View from our deck.
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Best coffee EVER from Costco
Bold, smooth, decaff and BULK!