Make honey. Find honey. Share honey. Use your samurai mind to add sweetness to life. Photograph from unprofound.com.

Sometimes I am as optimistic as a Russian novel set in gulags of Siberia.  However, I am finding that optimism is not necessarily something that just magically happens but something you can develop as a habit.  I don’t know if this habit will transform your life or anything, but it has slowly transformed how I approach learning and writing. (I owe a lot to AJATT.com and its constant and various ways it encourages persistence and fun.)

In previous articles, I’ve discussed the advantages of finding small moments of time and using them to do CRACK (Crevice Reading Acquiring Cool Knowledge).  There’s more to life than crack.  There’s honey in the crack–discovery, laughs, affirmation. Continue reading »