Shopping at Whole Foods is one of the things I do on our family.
Like the grocery shopping is my job.
So I was glad to be able to do that even on vacation.
And then, you know, being here and why it was the same Whole Foods experience
we're thinking about.
But then also a bunch of regional stuff, too, that they only have at this whole foods.
We love shopping at Whole Foods because there's always new flavors and foods to choose from
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And maybe I'll see you at the Whole Foods in Austin sometime.
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.
Designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.
What can you notice?
For years, the seasons passed Chloe Dalton by in a blur like they do for most of us.
Travel deadlines work, the constant churn of ambition and obligation.
Then during the pandemic trapped in an old house in an English countryside,
on a walk one day she comes across a leverette.
That's a baby wild hair and she nurses it back to life.
What ensues is a surreal and moving friendship as the hair becomes a free range companion
hopping around the house snoozing quietly by Dalton's side as she writes,
running in from the fields when called, drumming softly on her duvet cover to get her attention,
even giving birth and raising babies inside Dalton's home.
Spending hundreds of lonely quiet hours with this leverette, which she never names,
she learned to understand its habits and its needs, seeing the world from someone else's point of view.
I found a new spirit of attentiveness to nature.
Dalton writes in her lovely book, Raising Hair,
No less wonderful for being entirely unoriginal.
For as old as it is as a human experience, it was new to me.
For many years, the seasons had largely passed by,
my perceptions of the steady cycle of nature disrupted by travel and urban life.
I had observed nature in broad brushstrokes, she writes,
in primary colors at a surface level.
I had been most interested in whether it was dry enough to walk or warm enough to eat outside
with friends. I could identify only a handful of birds and treats by name.
I hadn't observed the buds unfurling, the seasonal passage of birds,
the unshakable rituals and rhythms of life in a single field or wood.
I now marveled at the purple tin on the back feathers of the house martin,
the smallest creature I had ever seen which flew into the house one morning,
observing the gleam of sun on the mirror finish of its plumage before releasing it into the air.
It's a passage reminiscent of Marcus Aurelius noticing the way loaves of breads split open
on top in the oven, or how ripe figs begin to burst. And all of them on the point of falling,
the shadow of decay gives them a peculiar beauty, stocks of wheat bending under their own weight,
the furrowed brow of the lion, flex of foam on the bore's mouth.
There is beauty and peace in noticing the small daily transformations,
the subtle shifts of life through the windows, the cracks on the sidewalk,
the sounds of the birds, the world is filled with things to see and hear.
Are you noticing them? Are you cultivating the stillness that allows you to appreciate them?
Now obviously that's the idea of stillness is the key. I also love Dalton's book Raising Hair,
which if it didn't come out while I was writing stillness, it would be in the book for sure.
You can grab both of those at the paint report or I will sign your copy of stillness is the key.
You can grab that at store.dailystoic.com
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