For dragon enthusiasts
I don’t like breakfast because I’m always in a hurry and don’t have time to make anything. So I get reasonably healthy stuff that doesn’t require prep.
Safeway-brand granola is terrible.
Eggs take forever to cook when you’re in a hurry, and then you have the pan. Boiling them takes longer, but cleaning the pan is trivial.
I don’t like toast.
Coffee is worth it.
Know every word of the Barbie song by Aqua.
What have we done, fellow olds? What have we done?
I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means Bladorthin!
Conservation of kindness: what you put in the world will largely stay in the world.
Conservation of anger: if your side gets angry, people who think you’re against them will get just as angry.
Man, I’m running on fumes.
I need more excuses to wear suits.
The world is a rough place. Be kind to each other.
There’s very little comedy in complaining, and there that is usually isn’t funny.
I like turtles
CS Lewis wrote about hell in two contexts.
The first was ‘hell is distractions.’ Getting torn away from something, being unable to do what you want to do because of interference, is a maddening torture. It’s small h hell. This is something I’ve always understood; I relate to this.
The second was a more elaborate discussion of literal Hell, and it’s frankly terrifying. It’s the only description of Hell I’ve ever been able to reconcile with Christian theology, and it’s best summed up, ‘In Hell, all the doors are locked from the inside.’ Basically, it’s not the notion of judgement or condemnation. God isn’t turning away from anyone. The damned turn away from God, and lock themselves away from him. Maybe because of bitterness or old grudges, maybe because of pride, fear, or selfishness, but they’re the ones with the locked doors. I could see that.
The two are related. One could easily lock the world out to focus, to exclude the distractions, and if that world involved God, one could easily put one’s self in CS Lewis’s Hell to avoid his hell.
On the other hand, one does have to be able to concentrate.
I suppose the difference would be malice, willfully shutting out people out of spite, to shut them out and not ignoring distractions to get something done: a negative focus as opposed to a positive focus.