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The Monday Morning Memo

CONtent/conTENT

April 6, 2020

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The content of your heart is what your heart contains.

Are you content? Same spelling, different meaning.

We distinguish these words only by the syllable we stress.

Words are amazing, don’t you think?

If you are content, (satisfied, happy, at peace,) it is because of the content of your heart. If the content of your heart is anxiety, fear, envy and anger, it is difficult to be content.

Who determines the content of your heart? Is it you?

We can assume, I think, that the content of your heart will be whatever you have chosen to put in it.

What have you put in it? Is there anything in there you might want to take out?

Sadly, our success-driven culture considers a person who is content to be somehow deficient. We are supposed to be driven, never satisfied, always fighting for more, for better, for higher, am I right?

But the golden carrot that is dangled before our donkey eyes is that we might someday be content.

Oh, what a cruel master is that bastard with his carrot and his stick!

Wait, the bastard is me.

Roy H. Williams

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“Are you Russian?”

“To the core.”

“Well then, let me say from the outset that I am positively enamored with your country. I love your funny alphabet and those little pastries stuffed with meat. But you nation’s notion of a cocktail is rather unnerving….”

“How so?”

The captain pointed discreetly down the bar to where a bushy-eyebrowed apparatchik was chatting with a young brunette. Both of them were holding drinks in a striking shade of magenta.

” I gather from Audrius that that concoction contains ten different ingredients. In addition to vodka, rum, brandy, and grenadine, it boasts an extraction of rose, a dash of bitters, and a melted lollipop. But a cocktail is not meant to be a melange. It is not a potpourri or an Easter parade. At its best, a cocktail should be crisp, elegant, sincere – and limited to two ingredients.”

“Just two?”

“Yes. But they must be two ingredients that complement each other; that laugh at each other’s jokes and make allowances for each other’s faults; and that never shout over each other in conversation. Like gin and tonic,” he said, pointing to his drink. “Or bourbon and water… or whiskey and soda…” Shaking his head, he raised his glass and drank from it. “Excuse me for expounding.””

- Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, p.300

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