Hello, I’m Craig Constantine.
7 for Sunday is a weekly serving of 7 things for you to savor. — It’s an email containing my reflections on interesting things I find lying about, seasoned with some quotes from my collection.
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The mind finds something it likes and wants more — not wealth, just more. A. A. Milne’s river, grown up now, moves slowly because it finally knows where it’s going and sees no reason to rush. Meanwhile, Seneca points out that hurrying from place to place is pointless when your troubles are traveling with you.
The summer heat slows everything and the instinct is to go still, which makes it worse. Comforts become necessities, and enough of them peel you away from common feeling with the rest of humanity. The trap isn’t the discomfort itself — it’s doubling it with criticism. Say the nice things out loud anyway.
The forest survives not because it’s orderly but because it’s diverse — and the systems-builder reads that sentence and files it under things he wished he’d learned thirty years ago. By the end, a list of “last times” starts losing words, then letters, then trails off entirely, the way moments do.
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