Daily Thoughts 01/08/2016

Auguste Macke, Garden Restaurant, 1912

Daily Thoughts 01/08/2016

I started reading Secular Meditation 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy by Rick Heller.  Right now, I am reading about compassion and kindness.  This is basically a revised version of buddhist practices so far with many of the religious parts taken out.  I was hoping for something a little more secular.


I checked the displays and the gift books this morning.

I spent some more time discussing the Sparks! Ignitions Grant with colleagues.  I am reading over the requirements right now.  I registered with grants.gov and a few other places.

I updated the Ebooks list for Bookletters today.

I read some more of Secular Meditation today.  I read some material on inner peace.   There was a little bit on Henry David Thoreau and how his philosophy is similar to mindfulness.   Also, the author wrote a little bit on how stoicism is related to buddhism.  I sometimes read The Enchiridion by Epictetus which is a short work of stoic philosophy.

Web Bits

Metro’s 2016 Annual Conference Schedule

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VZdY4WHdhflqX9TsOdp1q7uUIePnkrBskDOLbwL_F1s/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0

Name Element 117 Octarine in Honor of Terry Pratchett's Discworld-- Petition-- IUPAC
https://www.change.org/p/iupac-joint-institute-for-nuclear-research-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-name-new-element-117-octarine-in-honour-of-terry-pratchett-s-discworld?recruiter=55408501&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=des-lg-no_src-reason_msg&fb_ref=Default

Secret Libraries of Rome
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-libraries-of-rome?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

Taxi from the Afterlife: Why Two Men Vowed to Publish Their Dead Friends Books
http://www.booklistreader.com/2016/01/05/books-and-authors/taxi-from-the-afterlife-why-two-men-vowed-to-publish-their-dead-friends-books/