Ben Reed

A place where I post things I find interesting.

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“In addition to our drive to build a better world, we also live in a time when productivity and impact feed the lies we believe about ourselves. The constant pressure to do more, to fill up our schedules, to work harder. But we have to stop the busyness or we will be stopped by burnout and exhaustion.

Stillness teaches us restraint, and in restraint we are able to discern what appropriate engagement looks like.”

The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher L. Heuertz

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“Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you.” — Salieri, Amadeus Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants, writes about the slow disap

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Hattie vs the cat https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn7NVLRHeyd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wj1hfrvxqe25

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Someone likes it when our neighbor’s blues band is practicing.

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Neighborhood cat update: right after I took this video of a loving, playful cat, I tried to pet it. It hissed at me. Such a quintessential cat: luring me in with the promise of love and affection before trying to murder me.

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No such thing as too many headbands.

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Chaka Khan - Like Sugar (Official Video)

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EELS - Today Is The Day - Official Video

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Neighborhood cat update: standoff in the back yard about who gets to poop in the raised beds.

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Another great year being a dad to these four girls. They keep me on my toes and help me see joy in the world, which I’m thankful for more and more each day.

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Neighborhood cat update: found out from a neighbor that the previous owners would feed the neighborhood cats. We don’t feed them, but they keep coming back (we’re up to 4 cats). I think this one is planning a violent siege of the house to try and get food.

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Kurt Vonnegut on the six seasons

From “Funnier on Paper Than Most People,” collected in Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage.

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This is one of two cats that apparently come with my new house. They stop by and just try to walk on in. Josephine has named this one Elizabeth.

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This went about as well as expected.

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Happy 1st Birthday to our sweet Hattie.