I know who the other 37 of you are, nearly all of you choosing user names that are more or less transparent, but new members ulfie22, grazhoppah, msaxolotl and b1uddykd remain enigmatic outliers. Please let me know who you are so my curiosity can be quelled.

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” “So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act … more →

This is the beginning of a much larger post about reciprocity (in sociobiology reciprocal altruism), which has been lovely to experience. My notes: Juli and Andrea make arrangements for Charlie to attend private school. When Juli’s Se Habla La Paz school loses two large windows, Charlie and I show up to help with clean up. David, Rachel, Anastasia, and Belim also show up. David takes the lead on window extraction, while we others sweep and … more →