Scott Francis
my wife found this online somewhere recently, and I don't think I've agreed this hard with anything in a long time
Oct 6, 2025 at 7:02pmWeb
Show threadScott FrancisOct 10, 2025

have most of these, some of them regularly and some infrequently, still working on

* slow mornings
* calm and "boring" days
* time
* a quiet mind

Those first two are pretty much only Sunday, and only if I didn't procrastinate something critical on Friday and Saturday. The quiet mind comes when I'm out walking in nature, away from people and screens, for at least an hour. I really enjoy that about as much as anything on the list, but it's hard to cultivate.

Show threadBob YoungOct 10, 2025
@darkuncle
"Though the storm be all around me, the storm is not in me."
Develop the quiet mind to the state where you can live it anytime, anywhere.
No. I'm not there yet. But I'm closer than I was last year, and the year before. It's a growth of process.
Show threadScott FrancisOct 10, 2025

@fifonetworks 100% this

Someone I respect greatly once said “Spiritual formation is the slowest of all human movements” and that is endlessly encouraging to me.

Show threadIsibnuy 🐇Oct 17, 2025

@darkuncle gosh slow mornings are SO good

Lectures just started again this week but tutorials didn't yet and I always fall into that time table trap

So I was there 3 hours too early for lecture

Breakfasted in the canteen with cosy coffee and reading and felt SO refreshed and focused for the lecture ​

Show threadScott FrancisOct 17, 2025
@isibell it's just the best when you can take the time for thoughts to meander, and not have the next calendar event looming in the back of your mind
Show threadJonChevreau 🇨🇦Oct 6, 2025
@darkuncle guess I qualify!
Show threadCaryOct 6, 2025
@darkuncle There must be a code in there that spells out "maximize shareholder value"
Show threadScott FrancisOct 6, 2025
@crenquis “I am always the majority shareholder in my own mental, emotional, and physical health”
Show threadBliss ☀️🐈Oct 7, 2025
@darkuncle thanks for sharing these! This is the kind of life list i aspire to!
Greetings from Vancouver 🇨🇦
Show threadMichael VilainOct 7, 2025
@darkuncle There seems to be a glaring omisssion. I see no mention of chocolate.
Show threadScott FrancisOct 7, 2025
@mvilain massive oversight
Show threadbiddy_sue 🏳️‍🌈Oct 7, 2025
@darkuncle I’d add ‘days with no pain’ but otherwise, this is perfection
Show threadScott FrancisOct 7, 2025
@biddy_sue my wife added that same addendum!! (fibromyalgia)
Show threadnilsmielke ⁂Oct 10, 2025
@darkuncle The only thing I disagree with:
These shouldn’t be *luxuries*.
Show threadScott FrancisOct 10, 2025
@nilsmielke 100%
Show threadTrump & Epstein: Biz partners.Oct 17, 2025
@darkuncle
I enjoy exactly TWO Of those 12 "luxuries of life". 😐
Show threadScott FrancisOct 17, 2025
@MugsysRapSheet sometimes just reminding ourselves to think about what we're pursuing, and why, can help align us with those outcomes we really value
Show threaddasgrueneblattOct 17, 2025
@darkuncle 💚
Show threadeverton137Oct 17, 2025
@darkuncle I'd add the possibility to learn things we like.
Show threadMark HughesOct 17, 2025

@darkuncle
I'm surprised not to see anything about work (not necessarily paid) that you enjoy and a sense of purpose in that.

Maybe it's not considered a luxury?

Show threadScott FrancisOct 17, 2025
@markhughes there's definitely immense satisfaction that comes from pursuing purpose and the expression of who we are through things we do for ourselves and others (significant overlap with what we'd traditionally consider "work” but definitely not 100%)
Show threadSean MurthyOct 17, 2025
@darkuncle 💯. We lose many of those luxuries if we have no people we love and people who love us back.
Show threadScott FrancisOct 17, 2025
@smurthys so critical
Show threadNorggOct 17, 2025
@darkuncle initially liked this but something doesn't quite sit right with health being a luxury when healthcare should be a global human right
Show threadcwicseolforOct 18, 2025
@Norgg @darkuncle I think the luxury angle is more about how not all of us can have health even if we have all the support and resources in the world, and *all* of us are guaranteed to lose it over time unless we get taken out by a bus at eighteen.
Show threadNiaz WorldzOct 17, 2025
@darkuncle an missing peace on there! (not being under (violent) threat from any side)...
Show threadEli the BeardedOct 17, 2025

@darkuncle

And privacy

Show threadBeHappyOct 22, 2025
@darkuncle Peace, Democracy, Justice, Freedom, Truth – without these, the luxurious life quickly comes to an end.
Show threadpatricosOct 30
@darkuncle i have almost everything from this list exept Time and Good night sleep....lots of other problems comes out of these.