What Can You Notice?

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 in Hawaii, 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 whichever Whole Foods you are like, whichever Whole Foods you happen to be at. So save on regional flavors at Whole Foods Market, and, maybe I'll see you at the Whole Foods in Austin sometime. Hey, auntie. Can I have one vape? That's 1,200. 1,200? Read the box. One year subscription? $1,200. Vape after vape. It adds up. So you wanna renew your vape subscription? Nah. I get a lot of things I can spend my money on. Get more facts on the high cost of vaping at hawaiiquitline.org. 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 the English countryside, on a walk one day, she comes across a leverette, that's a baby wild hare, and she nurses it back to life. What ensues is a surreal and moving friendship as the hare 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 marten, …