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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I have a Taoist reading suggestion for you.

    The Tao of Pooh

    Turns out, Winnie the Pooh (from the original literature) embodies a lot of Taoist principles, and this book explains the parallels. My brother read it a long time ago and passed it on to me, because he said it reminded him of me. Turns out I’ve unknowingly been a Taoist my whole life. I just didn’t know it until I read the Tao of Pooh.

    I do NOT recommend the Tao de Jing. Although it is essentially considered the “Tao Bible”, it’s all over the place and doesn’t really spell out what Taoism is all about.












  • That’s how I was with smoking. I tried a hit and it felt gross, but one day we were drunk and I tried a friend’s clove cigarette. Cloves, for anyone who doesn’t know, numb your throat and mouth, so I didn’t get any of those terrible sensations but I got one hell of a head rush. It turned into bumming smokes while drinking, to buying a pack for the weekend, to switching to camels, to full blown smoker.