"You can't run away from your problems" is something I've heard so much, and have come to believe is bullshit. Sometimes running away makes them worse, sometimes it just delays dealing with them (which can be a godsend), and sometimes it just works. I've run away from many big problems in my life, e.g. by moving to another state or one time getting a divorce, and I"m into multiple decades of them not catching up to me.

I think people might really mean "I don't want you to be able to run away from your problems without consequences because I can't run from mine."

#advice #sayings #folkWisdom #bullshit

Tween kicks - fortune telling

Apple knew hubs initials

Years before I did


Say the alphabet
Spin an apple by its stem

breaks on mate’s letter

#haiku #poetry #SmallPoems #Writing #DailyHaikuPrompt stem #divination #teenageKicks #TrueStory #FolkWisdom #Apple #SmallMagic

Links that forever remain blue.
"What's one true fact you wish you could unlearn?"

#FolkWisdom

”Ryssiä”

This is a finnish slang verb for failing, to fuck it up.

It literally translates: ”to Russian it”
#folkwisdom #finnish #linguistics #russia

Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, semiaquatic and Very Large Serpent...

A friend in the Amazon said that if an anaconda knows an area is drying out, they move to safer waters, carving a channel through the mud, and all the fish come with them. From then on, the place they abandon will never be water-filled again. #anaconda #serpent #snake #Amazonia #Amazonas #FolkWisdom #folkloreThursday

@frankobert

Thanks! So because of your cool photo, today I learned that the German word for wren, Zaunkönig, means "fence king."

Nice! Many old names for common birds have that same delightful folksy observational quality. (In contrast to birds named for a naturalist who encountered them). "Fenceking" joins my life list of gems like "honeydipper," "turnstone," "flycatcher," & of course "goatsucker."

Not that our old friend the shoebill finds all this amusing.

#Birds #Names #FolkWisdom

BOOK + DESIGN. "In essence, we are going into the business of creating and maintaining conditioned reflexes." It's worth checking out Poor Charlie's Almanac for the web-book design and the candour.

Link: https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack/cover

#FolkWisdom #capitalism #WebDesign #BookDesign #business

#JoshuaKnobe - What Do People Think About #FreeWill?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3tqKA_S3W4&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #Will #Morrality #MoralPhilosophy #Wisdom #CommonKnowledge #Intuition #FolkKnowledge #FolkWisdom #Belief #FolkBelief #Aristotle #Determinism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Our ancestors were a pretty wise bunch of #OldFolks. Yet it seems we haven't learned much from them.
"The poor don't have, the rich won't give."

#SlovakProverb #FolkWisdom #SlovakNationalMuseum #SNM #ĽudovéMúdra
#Decorporate