Eclectic Living
Does your heart beat faster with excitement when you learn new terms like polymath, multipotentialite, Renaissance soul? Maybe that's because you are one - you get excited about learning, new experiences, self-improvement. Your energy level rises when you embark on a new project, a new adventure. You work on multiple projects at a time. My brother... Continue Reading →
In a word, Eudaimonia. According to Aristotle, that's what it's all about. This is the highest good, what we should all be striving for. So what is it? According to my translator, Martin Ostwald, it is Happiness. But that's not quite right (as I'm sure Ostwald would admit). Eudaimonia encompasses more than our notion of... Continue Reading →
When I was about 12, I excitedly told my brother and grandfather, Gramps, that I had figured out what the purpose of life was: to have fun! Gramps said that was fine, but added the caveat that one also has to avoid hurting others while having all this fun. In high school, I changed "fun"... Continue Reading →
I spent much of my childhood in the Willy Street neighborhood in Madison, Wisconsin. This neighborhood boasted a diverse mix of hippies, blue-collar folk, academics, eccentrics, motorcycle gangs, and, in my teenage years, crackheads. Old folks, young folks, white folks, black folks, all along the economic continuum. All of these people were on display at... Continue Reading →
Call me crazy, but I have this theory that being a good person is a big part of what makes people happy. And that's really what this blog is about: abolishing the pusillanimity of a wholly self-serving life and incrementally replacing it with the radiance of magnanimity (or something like that.) Magnanimity is a great... Continue Reading →
I'm sure many of you couldn't wait to get to this next post, hoping that I would cover why poop matters, but alas, that will have to wait for another day. All in due time, my friends. Today, we take a look at RPP. What's RPP, you ask? Let's say you're building an addition on... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Poppa's Cottage, a cozy little abode where we will gather to discuss life and other things over some steaming hot chocolate (or local small-batch bourbon, if you prefer). We are mere specks - picture us gathered around the hearth sipping our even speckier mugs of cocoa. Now step back and view our little... Continue Reading →
Poppa's Cottage 