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  1. The Iron That Learns to Wait: On the Hard Years

    A smith folds iron through a drought that will not end, and in his patience a wider constellation opens — Javanese nrima ing pandum, Stoic prohairesis, Taoist water, Confucian burden, Sufi fire, Vedantic impermanence, Buddhist second arrow. Not how to escape the hard years, but how to be folded by them without breaking.

    legawa.com/2026/07/10/the-iron

  2. The Iron That Learns to Wait: On the Hard Years

    A smith folds iron through a drought that will not end, and in his patience a wider constellation opens — Javanese nrima ing pandum, Stoic prohairesis, Taoist water, Confucian burden, Sufi fire, Vedantic impermanence, Buddhist second arrow. Not how to escape the hard years, but how to be folded by them without breaking.

    legawa.com/2026/07/10/the-iron

  3. The Iron That Learns to Wait: On the Hard Years

    A smith folds iron through a drought that will not end, and in his patience a wider constellation opens — Javanese nrima ing pandum, Stoic prohairesis, Taoist water, Confucian burden, Sufi fire, Vedantic impermanence, Buddhist second arrow. Not how to escape the hard years, but how to be folded by them without breaking.

    legawa.com/2026/07/10/the-iron

  4. The Iron That Learns to Wait: On the Hard Years

    A smith folds iron through a drought that will not end, and in his patience a wider constellation opens — Javanese nrima ing pandum, Stoic prohairesis, Taoist water, Confucian burden, Sufi fire, Vedantic impermanence, Buddhist second arrow. Not how to escape the hard years, but how to be folded by them without breaking.

    legawa.com/2026/07/10/the-iron

  5. The Iron That Learns to Wait: On the Hard Years

    A smith folds iron through a drought that will not end, and in his patience a wider constellation opens — Javanese nrima ing pandum, Stoic prohairesis, Taoist water, Confucian burden, Sufi fire, Vedantic impermanence, Buddhist second arrow. Not how to escape the hard years, but how to be folded by them without breaking.

    legawa.com/2026/07/10/the-iron

  6. Ketika Kebodohan Duduk di Singgasana: Catatan tentang Kuasa yang Tak Ditopang Kebijaksanaan

    Kisah Kertapati di desa Ngadirojo menggambarkan bahaya keputusan cepat tanpa kebijaksanaan. Lurah yang terburu-buru menutup sumur lama justru menyebabkan penyakit. Pelajaran dari cerita ini mengingatkan pentingnya berpikir mendalam dan melibatkan kebijaksanaan bersama dalam pengambilan keputusan demi kebaikan kolektif, bukan semata kepentingan pribadi.

    legawa.com/2026/07/04/ketika-k

  7. Ketika Kebodohan Duduk di Singgasana: Catatan tentang Kuasa yang Tak Ditopang Kebijaksanaan

    Kisah Kertapati di desa Ngadirojo menggambarkan bahaya keputusan cepat tanpa kebijaksanaan. Lurah yang terburu-buru menutup sumur lama justru menyebabkan penyakit. Pelajaran dari cerita ini mengingatkan pentingnya berpikir mendalam dan melibatkan kebijaksanaan bersama dalam pengambilan keputusan demi kebaikan kolektif, bukan semata kepentingan pribadi.

    legawa.com/2026/07/04/ketika-k

  8. Ketika Kebodohan Duduk di Singgasana: Catatan tentang Kuasa yang Tak Ditopang Kebijaksanaan

    Kisah Kertapati di desa Ngadirojo menggambarkan bahaya keputusan cepat tanpa kebijaksanaan. Lurah yang terburu-buru menutup sumur lama justru menyebabkan penyakit. Pelajaran dari cerita ini mengingatkan pentingnya berpikir mendalam dan melibatkan kebijaksanaan bersama dalam pengambilan keputusan demi kebaikan kolektif, bukan semata kepentingan pribadi.

    legawa.com/2026/07/04/ketika-k

  9. At last year's international Stoicon conference, I was invited to give a talk, which I titled "From The Cosmos To Cracks In Bread: Things of Beauty For Stoics". Here's the transcript of the talk and the Q&A.

    gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/
    #Stoicism #Beauty #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Seneca #Epictetus #Marcus #Aurelius

  10. At last year's international Stoicon conference, I was invited to give a talk, which I titled "From The Cosmos To Cracks In Bread: Things of Beauty For Stoics". Here's the transcript of the talk and the Q&A.

    gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/
    #Stoicism #Beauty #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Seneca #Epictetus #Marcus #Aurelius

  11. At last year's international Stoicon conference, I was invited to give a talk, which I titled "From The Cosmos To Cracks In Bread: Things of Beauty For Stoics". Here's the transcript of the talk and the Q&A.

    gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/
    #Stoicism #Beauty #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Seneca #Epictetus #Marcus #Aurelius

  12. At last year's international Stoicon conference, I was invited to give a talk, which I titled "From The Cosmos To Cracks In Bread: Things of Beauty For Stoics". Here's the transcript of the talk and the Q&A.

    gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/
    #Stoicism #Beauty #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Seneca #Epictetus #Marcus #Aurelius

  13. At last year's international Stoicon conference, I was invited to give a talk, which I titled "From The Cosmos To Cracks In Bread: Things of Beauty For Stoics". Here's the transcript of the talk and the Q&A.

    gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/
    #Stoicism #Beauty #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Seneca #Epictetus #Marcus #Aurelius

  14. « You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. »

    ― Epictetus

    🔗 · poligraf.tumblr.com/post/72159

    #quotes #Epictetus #attention #future #influences

  15. « You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. »

    ― Epictetus

    🔗 · poligraf.tumblr.com/post/72159

    #quotes #Epictetus #attention #future #influences

  16. Here's a commentary on a particularly insightful chapter of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus' Enchiridion. Anyone can claim or pretend piety, but you see what sort of mindset they really have when they run into setbacks!

    medium.com/practical-rationali
    #Stoicism #Epictetus #Enchiridion #Commentary #Piety #Relationships #Expectations

  17. Here's a commentary on a particularly insightful chapter of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus' Enchiridion. Anyone can claim or pretend piety, but you see what sort of mindset they really have when they run into setbacks!

    medium.com/practical-rationali
    #Stoicism #Epictetus #Enchiridion #Commentary #Piety #Relationships #Expectations

  18. Still, choose today

    Back at the start of January I mentioned, “Indeed. If it is to my advantage tomorrow, it is much more so today.” My touch phrase, “choose today” for 2023 continues to be a poignant reminder. I’ve now written it at the bottom of every journal entry this year, it often comes to mind in moments when I most need it, and it always reminds me of this:

    Stick to what’s in front of you—idea, action, utterance. This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.

    ~ Marcus Aurelius

    slip:4a488.

    “If it is to my advantage tomorrow, it is much more so today.” is a direct quote of Epictetus. Aurelius was born shortly after Epictetus’s death. But Aurelius makes a point of thanking one of his teachers, Rusticus saying in part, “[…] And for introducing me to Epictetus’s lectures–and loaning me his own copy.”

    Which leads me to the first thing “choose today” reminds me of each day: Knowledge, and in particular wisdom, are gained through others by seeking out those who have something you wish to learn. These people which I’m mentioning lived thousands of years ago. Others (in other traditions from other regions of the world in other centuries) have separately discovered these same ideas, which makes it clear to me that these ideas are worth considering.

    The second thing “choose today” reminds me of is to be forward-looking. Certainly I want to observe and consider my past (and the past of others!) but I should be looking towards the future. If something feels urgent, then where exactly is that sense of urgency coming from, and is the urgency real? If something feels important— same questions. If something feels _insert_whatever_here_— same questions. And then, what can I choose today?

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    #7ForSunday #Epictetus #Journaling #MarcusAurelius #SelfImprovement #ThoughtAndPhilosophy #YearlyTouchPhrases
  19. You become what you give your attention to …
    If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will!

    #Epictetus #Stoicism #DailyStoic #mjbStoicism #mjbQuotes #Quotes #mjbNoteToSelf

  20. Choose today

    In recent years I’ve been choosing a touch phrase. The phrases are reminders, intended to cue up a larger train of thought.

    For 2023 the phrase is “Choose today”. It is inspired by two different quotes, both having withstood the test of time:

    Stick to what’s in front of you—idea, action, utterance. This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.

    ~ Marcus Aurelius

    slip:4a488.

    …and one of my daily reflection prompts from Epictetus:

    So is it possible to be altogether faultless? No, that is impractical; but it is possible to strive continuously not to commit faults. For we shall have cause to be satisfied if, by never relaxing our attention, we shall escape at least a few faults. But as it is, when you say, “I will begin to pay attention tomorrow,” you should know that what you are really saying is this: “I will be shameless, inopportune, abject today; it will be in the power of others to cause me distress; I will get angry, I will be envious today.” See how many evils you are permitting yourself. But if it is well for you to pay attention tomorrow, how much better would it be today? If it is to your advantage tomorrow, it is much more so today, so that you may be able to do the same again tomorrow, and not put it off once more, to the day after tomorrow.

    ~ Epictetus, 4.12.19-21

    Indeed. If it is to my advantage tomorrow, it is much more so today.

    ɕ

    #7ForSunday #Epictetus #MarcusAurelius #YearlyTouchPhrases
  21. CW: My #Introduction (Long)

    ABOUT ME #Introduction #TwitterMigration
    Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas. I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

    My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
    go.mgpd.org/feditoots

    I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
    mguhlin.org,
    and
    TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
    blog.tcea.org

    You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
    courses.tcea.org

    Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

    #EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec

    PRONOUNS
    Allow me to share this perspective as a Panamanian who was raised in the Canal Zone and then came to the United States when he was 10 years old to attend private, Catholic schools until high school graduation. It was a sheltered upbringing, by design of course by loving parents. Still, I want to be clear about something often taken for granted.

    I cannot support hatred of individuals. I do not accept skin color or LGBTQ+ as a reason for poor treatment of other people. This has never been more needed, especially in education and online spaces like this one, given the level of hate and bias.

    Being who you are should not result in blind bias or hatred. I reject that and the frames that people have adopted that result in such hate.

    As a Latinx who grew up in the Republic of Panama and then Texas, I have my own perspective.

    My own identity as a cisgender (he/him/his), a bilingual/bicultural speaker, a person caught between two cultures, I have not suffered the slings and arrows of bias, prejudice that I can only ally with, including #Black #LGBTQ+ #IndigenousPeoples.

    Since I speak and write in Standard English, I enjoy a level of white privilege due to my skin color (from my Swedish father) and my last name (“Guhlin” is Swedish, not Latino), I know that my life experience does not give me the authority to speak in more certain terms.

    So, I offer my perspective in this space in a tentative way, and hope that I can learn with and from others.

  22. CW: My #Introduction (Long)

    ABOUT ME #Introduction #TwitterMigration
    Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas. I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

    My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
    go.mgpd.org/feditoots

    I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
    mguhlin.org,
    and
    TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
    blog.tcea.org

    You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
    courses.tcea.org

    Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

    #EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec

    PRONOUNS
    Allow me to share this perspective as a Panamanian who was raised in the Canal Zone and then came to the United States when he was 10 years old to attend private, Catholic schools until high school graduation. It was a sheltered upbringing, by design of course by loving parents. Still, I want to be clear about something often taken for granted.

    I cannot support hatred of individuals. I do not accept skin color or LGBTQ+ as a reason for poor treatment of other people. This has never been more needed, especially in education and online spaces like this one, given the level of hate and bias.

    Being who you are should not result in blind bias or hatred. I reject that and the frames that people have adopted that result in such hate.

    As a Latinx who grew up in the Republic of Panama and then Texas, I have my own perspective.

    My own identity as a cisgender (he/him/his), a bilingual/bicultural speaker, a person caught between two cultures, I have not suffered the slings and arrows of bias, prejudice that I can only ally with, including #Black #LGBTQ+ #IndigenousPeoples.

    Since I speak and write in Standard English, I enjoy a level of white privilege due to my skin color (from my Swedish father) and my last name (“Guhlin” is Swedish, not Latino), I know that my life experience does not give me the authority to speak in more certain terms.

    So, I offer my perspective in this space in a tentative way, and hope that I can learn with and from others.

  23. CW: My #Introduction (Long)

    ABOUT ME #Introduction #TwitterMigration
    Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas. I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

    My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
    go.mgpd.org/feditoots

    I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
    mguhlin.org,
    and
    TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
    blog.tcea.org

    You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
    courses.tcea.org

    Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

    #EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec

    PRONOUNS
    Allow me to share this perspective as a Panamanian who was raised in the Canal Zone and then came to the United States when he was 10 years old to attend private, Catholic schools until high school graduation. It was a sheltered upbringing, by design of course by loving parents. Still, I want to be clear about something often taken for granted.

    I cannot support hatred of individuals. I do not accept skin color or LGBTQ+ as a reason for poor treatment of other people. This has never been more needed, especially in education and online spaces like this one, given the level of hate and bias.

    Being who you are should not result in blind bias or hatred. I reject that and the frames that people have adopted that result in such hate.

    As a Latinx who grew up in the Republic of Panama and then Texas, I have my own perspective.

    My own identity as a cisgender (he/him/his), a bilingual/bicultural speaker, a person caught between two cultures, I have not suffered the slings and arrows of bias, prejudice that I can only ally with, including #Black #LGBTQ+ #IndigenousPeoples.

    Since I speak and write in Standard English, I enjoy a level of white privilege due to my skin color (from my Swedish father) and my last name (“Guhlin” is Swedish, not Latino), I know that my life experience does not give me the authority to speak in more certain terms.

    So, I offer my perspective in this space in a tentative way, and hope that I can learn with and from others.

  24. CW: My #Introduction (Long)

    ABOUT ME #Introduction #TwitterMigration
    Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas. I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

    My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
    go.mgpd.org/feditoots

    I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
    mguhlin.org,
    and
    TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
    blog.tcea.org

    You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
    courses.tcea.org

    Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

    #EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec

    PRONOUNS
    Allow me to share this perspective as a Panamanian who was raised in the Canal Zone and then came to the United States when he was 10 years old to attend private, Catholic schools until high school graduation. It was a sheltered upbringing, by design of course by loving parents. Still, I want to be clear about something often taken for granted.

    I cannot support hatred of individuals. I do not accept skin color or LGBTQ+ as a reason for poor treatment of other people. This has never been more needed, especially in education and online spaces like this one, given the level of hate and bias.

    Being who you are should not result in blind bias or hatred. I reject that and the frames that people have adopted that result in such hate.

    As a Latinx who grew up in the Republic of Panama and then Texas, I have my own perspective.

    My own identity as a cisgender (he/him/his), a bilingual/bicultural speaker, a person caught between two cultures, I have not suffered the slings and arrows of bias, prejudice that I can only ally with, including #Black #LGBTQ+ #IndigenousPeoples.

    Since I speak and write in Standard English, I enjoy a level of white privilege due to my skin color (from my Swedish father) and my last name (“Guhlin” is Swedish, not Latino), I know that my life experience does not give me the authority to speak in more certain terms.

    So, I offer my perspective in this space in a tentative way, and hope that I can learn with and from others.

  25. Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas.

    I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

    My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
    go.mgpd.org/feditoots

    I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
    mguhlin.org,
    and
    TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
    blog.tcea.org

    You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
    courses.tcea.org

    Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

    #EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec

  26. Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas.

    I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

    My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
    go.mgpd.org/feditoots

    I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
    mguhlin.org,
    and
    TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
    blog.tcea.org

    You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
    courses.tcea.org

    Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

    #EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec

  27. Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas.

    I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

    My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
    go.mgpd.org/feditoots

    I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
    mguhlin.org,
    and
    TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
    blog.tcea.org

    You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
    courses.tcea.org

    Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

    #EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec

  28. Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas.

    I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

    My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
    go.mgpd.org/feditoots

    I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
    mguhlin.org,
    and
    TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
    blog.tcea.org

    You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
    courses.tcea.org

    Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

    #EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec