Oct
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I can’t remember if I told you this, but it’s ‘Memory Week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily
I have great stories from my life and I like to tell them. So, as a service to mankind and to help you avoid the problem mentioned in the napkin today, I have this suggestion; if you happen to hear one of my stories twice think of it as seeing a rerun of your favorite TV show during the summer. See, wasn’t that easy?
My father, who is 92, is sharp as a tack mentally. For about 2 minutes. Then he forgets what I have told him and asks again how the family is doing; daughters, wife, etc. I will recount for him what I had just told him and about the 2nd or 3rd time it pretty much sinks in and he is up to date on things, for a while.
We should all have someone like that at our disposal so we can tell our stories as many times as we want and not worry about having told it before!
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Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily (I repeat this line EVERY DAY, have you noticed that?)
Quote by François duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer
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Jun
19
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Vintage napkin from 2004. Drawn for my youngest daughter (at the time) and put in with her lunch.
So, maybe the key to enduring our own misfortune is to act as if we are someone else. Nice thought but we truly only have to endure our own pain first hand. Empathy and sympathy are the closest we can get to feeling what others feel. That is why those traits are of great value in having others feel love from you. Yes, it does increase our pain a bit, but the love and solace we give by being empathetic and sympathetic to others is well worth it.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld
Jan
09
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A vintage napkin from my daughters’ lunch, circa 2002.
Give me an example of someone you think would have to do this.
Drawing and commentary (or question, in this case) by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by who knows who.
Aug
19
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A variation on a theme I return to again and again, that of mixed motives in what we do in life.
Most people look for purity of motive in deciding whether to judge someone positive or negative. The more obvious virtue in the act, the better the judgment, the more vanity in the act, the worse the judgment.
I think that is us being enamored of a fictitious ideal. We like the stories of old that idealize the heroes and it such a clear and easy world those stories tell of that we dearly wish to find that in real life. However, reality is the ultimate hard-ass partner, not allowing us the luxury of that fantasy for very long.
Why not simply embrace that virtue and vanity are linked, that one will always travel with the other. Why think that is wrong for them to travel side by side? Why not welcome them when they accompany one of your friends or family, or a celebrity you see on TV? You might as well, since you know V and V are going to accompany you when you go visiting, and you would like them to be welcomed as part of who you are, right?
It makes life much more comfortable and real to admit the reality of our lives and our motives in it.
Drawing by Marty Coleman, the Napkin Dad
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quote by Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French aphorist and swashbuckling roque, 1613-1680
