On the evening before I started my new job, I made my packed lunch for the next day and put it in the fridge. When I came to get ready to leave for my early morning train, I found a note from Tris next to my work bag to remind me to get my lunch and pack a couple of other essentials which I hadn’t been able to put in my bag overnight.
Such a small thing, but a really kind gesture that really helped when I was feeling nervous.
My wife decided that the garage should be used for the car this winter instead of its normal detached storage unit configuration.
But, still insists I shovel the entire driveway, which I presume is so that the ambulance has somewhere to park when I eventually have a heart attack from shoveling said driveway :)
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
You may safely go to school with hope; but ere you marry, should have learned the mingled lesson of the world: that dolls are stuffed with sawdust, and yet are excellent play-things; that hope and love address themselves to a perfection never realised, and yet, firmly held, become the salt and staff of life; that you yourself are compacted of infirmities, perfect, you might say, in imperfection, and yet you have a something in you lovable and worth preserving; and that, while the mass of mankind lies under this scurvy condemnation, you will scarce find one but, by some generous reading, will become to you a lesson, a model, and a noble spouse through life. So thinking, you will constantly support your own unworthiness, and easily forgive the failings of your friend.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”
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You may safely go to school with hope; but ere you marry, should have learned the mingled lesson of the world: that dolls are stuffed with sawdust, and yet are excellent play-things; that hope and love address themselves to a perfection never realised, and yet, firmly held, become the salt…
"#Marriages among the ultra-#Orthodox sometimes happen between complete strangers. For some, entering the “#intimacy room” with their new #spouse is the first time either has been alone with a member of the opposite #sex, aside from immediate family members.
A #bride and #groom can experience profound awkwardness — and far worse — in their initial physical union. Though not every first night spent together is traumatic, similar questions loom over every #ultraOrthodox #wedding: When the band quiets down, the guests leave and the bride and groom go home together, what will happen between them? Will it be good? Will it be welcome?
I set out to interview members of my community to explore those questions in the short #film above, “The First Night.”
"Ms. Elitzur is an ultra-Orthodox #Jewish #filmmaker. She interviewed members of her community on how they navigate the first night as bride and groom."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/ultra-orthodox-jewish-wedding-night.html
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 14ff (431 BC) [tr. Murray (1906)]
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NURSE:Surely this doth bind, Through all ill days, the hurts of humankind, When man and woman in one music move. [ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: ἥπερ μεγίστη γίγνεται σωτηρία, ὅταν γυνὴ πρὸς ἄνδρα μὴ διχοστατῇ.] (Source (Greek)). Other translations: Hence bliss supreme arises, when the bond Of concord joins them. [tr. Wodhull (1782)] This…
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)
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