My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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Assay: Why I No Longer Worry About Having a “Personal Style.”

Assay: A few years ago, I consciously decided that I’d no longer worry much about expressing my “personal style” through decisions such as my choice of clothes or the way our apartment was decorated. It was quite a relief. (I didn’t actually do much of this kind of self-expression, but I thought that perhaps I should.) Now I choose clothes …


“To Study and Learn How To Know Ourselves…Is the Foundation of Wisdom and the Highway To Whatever Is Good.”

“The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.” –Pierre Charron * As a person who reads every possible minute that I can, I’m always looking for good …