Mark Barsocchini

Knot tyer, fidgeter, old video gamer, and occasionally Santa.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Give more.
Give what you didn't get.
Love more.
Drop the old story.

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 Yes

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Stan Beaton from West Yorkshire had kept a saved voicemail from his late wife Ruby.

During a technical upgrade with his phone line, the voicemail was accidentally deleted.

A team of 11 engineers worked for three days to search backups and archived systems, successfully recovering the message despite low odds.

Sometimes, love is not found in grand gestures. Sometimes it is just hidden in one saved message.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

When we know what to say no to, we can say yes to the things that matter.

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 Claiming

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 Yes

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 I claim it

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 111

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 111

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 111

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

We are creating a banned books library here in Bastrop, TX and need your help! If you would like to be part of this project, send in your favorite banned/censored books to:

Painted Porch Bookstore
ATTN: Banned Books
912 Main St
Bastrop, Tx 78602
United States

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 YES

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Titles feed the ego. Effort feeds the soul.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

5 Core Principles of Stoicism:

1. Focus on what you can control.
2. You control how you respond to things.
3. Ask yourself, “Is this essential?”
4. Meditate on your mortality every day.
5. Value time more than money/possessions.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Think progress, not perfection.

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 Amen

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

6 Stoic Rules of Arete (Excellence)

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 Claiming it.

[Mark Barsocchini @barzolomew]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 YES

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”