Earlier this week I headed down to the town square for lunch with Jeff at a groovy little place, called The Corner Cafe. On my way there I ran into this artist, Alan Kuykendall, who was working on a mural to cover up the graffitti some kids had scribbled all over the beautiful brick wall.

I have seen his work around town, and heard his name for years, but never had the chance to meet him. So I went over and rudely interrupted his work… which he didn’t seem to mind. I asked him how long it takes him to finish a mural like the one he was working on. He said he’d started the day before and was halfway done.

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When I was in college I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novels by Doulgas Adams, or as they are often referred to, “a trilogy in five parts”. I didn’t realize it at the time, but everything I needed to know about life, the universe, and everything was somewhere in those books. Granted, I had to sift through a considerable amount of nonsense to get to the good stuff, but then, isn’t that exactly how life works?

Here are ten passages from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I think make particularly useful life lessons. I hope you’ll find a lot of good stuff here as well.

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Whenever I see a magazine or blog that teaches us how to live a Simple Life, I get one of two impressions: either simplifying will turn me into a Martha Stewart type person, or I need to be one in order to achieve true simplicity.

Simplicity, as defined by these authorities on the subject, always looks beautiful… like an all-white home with a single red rose on the table, and a bowl of limes on the counter.

Simple hairstyles are polished and refined. Simple clothing is slimming and perfectly matched. Simple exercises give us six-pack abs. Simple anything, then, must mean beautiful… right? These two are practically synonymous, it seems.

Or are they?

I’ll tell you what “simple” means; it means “not complicated”.

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