Satisfying progress

I got G's paper to the point that I could send it back to him, and I got my persuasion paper to the point that I can give it to him too. Great! I love moving things off my do-list, especially when they've been there for months.

Also, the shrimp with tomatos and harissa from my harissa recipe links was tasty!

Wonder and temperament

I've been typing up notes from R.W. Hepburn's essay on wonder, and this part about individual predispositions towards framing their experiences is worth sharing:

“Temperamentally, individuals find certain of the options specially compelling: but the responses are also modifiable by reflection. For instance, it can be argued that ironical and sardonic attitudes, when they predominate, tend regrettably to shield or mask a person from experiences of certain types of value, including high values which (once acknowledged) would evoke awe or humility. Again, a response of dread at the human predicament keeps the prospect of our individual death before us, anticipates it, as it were, and so gives the ‘dreadful’ a gratuitously debilitating hold over life as a whole.”