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🦋 A Waterfall of Butterflies: this man captured the sound of millions monarchs migrating. Watch it here.

🔎 Wherever You Are, Stop What You’re Doing: The act of noticing sanctifies life. Read it here.

😊 What People Get Wrong About Happiness: Most people chase happiness in all the wrong places—this article reveals the surprising truth about what actually makes life fulfilling. Read it here.

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🎇 Image of The Week

“This photograph of the Geminid meteor shower was taken under perfect conditions on La Palma. During the peak of the night, Jakob Sahner could easily spot two or three or more meteors per minute within the field of view. The panorama shows the entire winter Milky Way as seen from La Palma in RGB natural colour with extra details in H-alpha.”

 👶 A Return To The Beginning

This Saturday, I returned to the beginning—something we all share but fail to remember. We crossfade into awareness, slowly coming to the realization that “I” am “here.”

This is my first time witnessing an arrival from the outside.

My son was born on Saturday, delivered to me through the heroic bravery and luminous spirit of my lovely wife.

Our first child. Her glorious entrance into motherhood. My debut into fatherhood.

I’m grateful they are both in good health. Hardly just a new chapter, this is an entirely new book of life.

It’s so fresh I can’t pretend to have settled into any concrete notions of what it means to be a father.

I can say I’m excited to walk with him through life, experiencing for myself a second set of firsts.

I will meet the world anew as he encounters it for the first time.

His wonder, I hope, will be well met by my own.

Together we can gawk in amazement at the vivid mysteries and boundless beauty that overwhelms the surface of the Earth.

I have not let that wonder die. I pray it never dies in him either.

Welcome to the world, my son.

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😇 Earth is an angel

Reflect on this notion from Gustav Fechner:

“On a certain spring morning I went out to walk. The fields were green, the birds sang, the dew glistened, the smoke was rising, here and there a man appeared; a light as of transfiguration lay on all things. It was only a little bit of the earth; it was only one moment of her existence; and yet as my look embraced her more and more it seemed to me not only so beautiful an idea, but so true and clear a fact, that she is an angel, an angel so rich and fresh and flower-like, and yet going her round in the skies so firmly and so at one with herself, turning her whole living face to Heaven, and carrying me along with her into that Heaven, that I asked myself how the opinions of men could ever have so spun themselves away from life so far as to deem the earth only a dry clod, and to seek for angels above it or about it in the emptiness of the sky,—only to find them nowhere....

But such an experience as this passes for fantastic. The earth is a globular body, and what more she may be, one can find in mineralogical cabinets.”

🤓 Learn This Word

Gemba: The real place; in business it refers to the real place where value is created, such as the factory floor. Instead of depending on hierarchy, the people who are closest to what's happening make decisions. Ie: the more hands-on knowledge a decision-maker has, the better their decision will be.

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The Noble Truths of Manhood I Learned From My Father

by Daniel Schmachtenberger

I write this in appreciation and honor for my father. And with the hope that men who may not have had the same type of unreasonable father-fortune that I had, may benefit to some degree from reading whats shared here.

When I was a kid, my Dad was a sort of god to me. As I grew up and individuated, there was a time I took his gifts for granted and focused largely on his faults. Growing up further and appreciating the whole picture in an integrated way…and having more life experience to see how unusual my childhood with him actually was… I feel overwhelmingly grateful for who he was and what he shared with me. Moreover, I feel indebted to share what I can of what I received with others.

My dad was of an old breed of men that I might have thought only an embellished legend if I hadn’t experienced it firsthand. To get some sense of this…

One time we were working on a semi engine and it was time to put it back in the truck. We were waiting on the tractor to return to the shop so we could lift it in, but we were losing daylight. So he wrapped chains around the engine and lifted it back into the truck by hand. Because it needed done. After we finished the job, he repeated a phrase he said continuously throughout my childhood: “see the job, do the job, stay out of the misery”.

Another time he was standing in a parking lot smoking a cigarette when gunshots were fired in one of the stores. Everyone ducked or ran the other way. My dad ran straight towards the sound of the gunshots. After breaking the door down he found that the man wielding the gun had just shot himself in the head. The woman (his ex wife) he had attacked first was badly bleeding but not dead. My dad bandaged her and held the blood in while the ambulance arrived. She lived. He talked to her during that time about her ex husband finally being out of pain and that she could forgive him. He visited with her afterwards and helped her process the emotions further. When he told me about running towards the gunshots, he assumed the shooter was still alive but said he knew he could keep his body moving through enough bullets to take the shooter out and prevent anyone else from getting hurt. He did this for strangers.

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