Learning From Others

Thank You Mom

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“Moooommm, what’s for Dinner?” “Food.”

And to this day I’ll eat any meal put in front of me, enjoying the vast majority of them.

Good Morning to you
Good Morning to you
We’re all in our places
With Sun Shiney Faces
Good Morning to You!

And I great each day with happiness.

Poetry and Stoicism

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What do they have in common?
Both have stereotypes fueling strong misunderstandings about their nature.
Maybe it’s just me.

To check on the alignment of stoicism and your beliefs about it visit the Daily Stoic website.

Poetry is a very side sea. Perhaps reading The Poets Laureate Anthology will provide an experience base. Or choose a poet, perhaps the accessible Billy Colliins and browse their books. Or perhaps listen to Billy Colliins reading a pair of poems. I found the Wikipedia Poetry page to be a bit dry, though I won’t fault it for lack of comprehension.

You have your life and it is filled with your concerns. Perhaps these will fit into it.

Spanish Armchair Travel

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¿Cómo nos han transformado las redes sociales?

If you understand: read this.
If you don’t: read this.

It’s a story from Radio Ambulante. Think This American Life and Radio Lab transmuted into Spanish, roaming through the vast Latin American cultural worlds. Fortunately for those without Spanish fluency each episode has transcriptions in Spanish and English. They have over 100 episodes.

Yes, you too can be a sonic armchair traveler.

Personal note, when I first saw “¿Cómo nos han transformado las redes sociales?” I understood. Then it hit my self-aware self, I understood. Radio Ambulante is one resource for learning Spanish. Especially useful is reading the Spanish transcript while listening, to work on listening comprehension.