Is this cheating? It’s not like I’m not committing a crime already. I mean let’s face it not that many TauBits of Wisdom I curate are legitimately mine. But at least of the ones I score each day, they hit the printed page on the day I note. This, however, breaks that rule.
“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”
“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “Sure, living in the present is usually optimal — but not always. When the past keeps pulling you into its dream, there’s something for you there. The living you do in the past counts as living, too.” Taurus
Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 18 in Season 3 of “My Paradoxically Normal Year” on this 27th day of March in the spring of 2021 — which is a three-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic year and then in the pandemic year, and now months after.
Previously from Season Three, the Paradoxically Normal Year
S3 E17 — Guess What? You’re on a Treadmill Just Now Picking Up Speed; S3 E16 — Quid Pro Quo the Awesome Kind; S3 E15 — Wait, Did I Say That Out Loud?
Related from Season Two, The Pandemic Year
S2 E18 — What is the Truth and How Can You Tell?; S2 E17 — Shutting Mountain Resorts Down, Closing Boutiques, Kicking Tourists Out; S2 E16 — Scroll to the Bottom for Foresight and Quality-of-Life, Right Leo?; S2 E15 — Behaving Badly, Why Big Sur made “Fodor’s Travel NO List”
Related from Season One, The Normal Year
S1 E18 — Day 18 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E17 — Day 17 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E16 — Day 16 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E15 — Day 15 of My 1-Year Experiment
Context
Which is the subject of Non Sequitur by Wiley, though not from today but from yesterday:
The first two scenes are at home.
“How was school Danae? Anything fun happen?”
“Yes, thanks to you, Daddy!”
“Oh? How so?”
“I remembered what you said when you yelled at the TV about perpetuating a Big Lie.”
The scene shifts to school and a teacher.
“…And even the President isn’t above the law.”
So Danae says, “Can you back that up with any President ever held liable of his crimes?”
In the last scene at home, “Um… How was that fun?”
“My teacher is sending you to detention.”
Since I’m on a crime spree, check out yesterday’s Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Patis:
Pig climbs the side of the hill where a donkey sits on top.
“Oh wise ass on the hill what great wisdom have you reached during the pandemic? That the future is uncertain? That loneliness can be crippling? That life is fragile?”
“That I can go five days without showering.”
At the base of the hill Pig turn to Rat, “This pandemic has been very enlightening.”
If you scanned my week for which talent projects I compulsively completed at the exclusion of everything else I was supposed to spend my time — like filing 2020 taxes — you’d see I composed seven days worth of the last month in my 1-year experiment.
Maybe not quite as bad as the wise ass on the hill, but just about as enlightening as great wisdom goes.
Evidence
And, that turns my attention to today’s Tau of Steves beginning with the only one for which I don’t have to break the law as a birthday impersonator.
Where is glory? In Idaho somewhere? I feel the weight-lifting strain without any glamour.
“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “The building goes up one brick at a time and so does your success. There is no glamour in it today (each move looks and feels like a weight-lifting repetition), but eventually, you’ll dance in glory.” Scorpio
Random ones that make me want change my sign.
I feel less like a criminal ever since we declared Steve McQueen our Patron Saint. His Holiday Tau for today, touches on Wiley’s Non Sequitur, but I can only wish for the punchline.
“4” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “People are born with open mouths and minds. Many adults are better at closing their minds than they are at closing their mouths, but your disarming approach sparks imagination and brings people back to openness.” Aries
I felt so much better lifting WW&C’s TauBit because truth be told, I’m living in two different time zones. Most of this week I’ve been stuck in pre-COVID 2020 February first through the second week the 15th. Do you remember what life was like then?
“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “Sure, living in the present is usually optimal — but not always. When the past keeps pulling you into its dream, there’s something for you there. The living you do in the past counts as living, too.” Taurus
Hmm. Maybe I should combine your TauBit of Wisdom with Aoki since I’d circling around stories for my Memoir, a work-work-in-progress “Volume Two Manuscript.”
“4” Steve Smith, 30, Stevie Nicks, 72: “As for the rituals and beliefs you no longer participate in, it’s not because you lost them along the way, rather they got traded in the development of your soul. There’s no part of your story that doesn’t belong there.” Gemini
Does this count? I left off at Day 171 of My 1-Year Experiment struggling with how to write about a decade for my memoir.
Is it about encountering 2008 and 2009 graduates who felt they were sold a bill of goods? Or about how the requirements changed and I chafed at those requirements?
Or is it about how my guidance provided insight into how plateaued professionals might advance once they better understood the lay of their land and how to propose value-adding strategies of overcome their type-casting weaknesses?
“4” Steve Aoki, 41: “When you can’t figure out what you want, start with what you don’t want. When you X out the negative space, form emerges. You’re like a sculptor chipping away at anything that is not the masterpiece.” Sagittarius
What’s Going On …
Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll
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- @KnowLabs suite of 36 digital magazines jumps from 7397 to 7455 this week organically grown followers
Foresight
Quality-of-Life
Long-Form
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- “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History” by Kurt Andersen Both of us, Emma the Baroness and I, have been processing the acquittal of our ex-President — not really being surprised by the “Big Lie” promoting followers in the Senate, but more disappointed after seeing new video documentation of the insurrection and detailed evidence time lines. I return to Kurt Andersen’s book “Fantasyland” to help me through the process of filtering the unfolding events.
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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate
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