Occasionally in life we’re confronted with those incredibly grouchy people who simply cannot be persuaded to find the good in anything. On those occasions it can be helpful to be armed with a few phrases to either interrupt the grouchy pattern or create enough of a diversion to make an escape. Here are 20 potential …
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When I’m feeling like a crass, trashtalking set of wind-up plastic teeth with an overbite and bad breath, I disappear in the lyrical music of words. When I’m loud in the quiet room and they make more noise in the process of kicking me out, it’s a beautiful contrast. Like golf socks on a water …
Stop Naming Trails This Way
With some help from my friends and family, we came up with over 300 mountain bike trail names worth using, or emulating. Before I get in to what some of those trail names are, let’s review naming traditions which need to be buried. Naming a trail after a person is the quickest way to tell …
Amazing Music
Music is amazing. Music is eternal and temporary all at once. Eternal because it will live in memory forever. A song can outlast the most familial memory. Some people remember their children’s names by remembering songs. Other people even name their children after a song, their favorite song. And then there are those who name …
What’s Your Damage?
The phrase, or question, “What’s your damage?” really deserves a revival. Everyone is damaged somehow. Everyone has their pet peeves and their pet biases. I have yet to meet anyone who is perfectly sane. There is a high percentage of people who are fantastic actors though, so we see most people with their sane faces …
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