Imagine Going Back Honesty as a Habit Getting Along in Space

Imagine you are at the end of your life questions. Like, imagine at your life's end and asking yourself if you would instead have done something-something. Why do we place honesty questions at the very end of our existence? A: Because that seems to be where we will likely make honest decisions. Why would we change that at the end if we are not honest the rest of the time? The fundamental insight for me is to be honest now. Be sure to start a good habit before the end. So, with a new pattern of telling the truth to yourself all the time, which period of your life do you choose to repeat? Which phase of life would you want to go back to? Does that tell you how you should spend your time today?

I have placed bookmarks twice in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. They were places where I had opportunities to act. I was finishing one thing and looking forward to some new opportunity. Based on that, I would have my best life by looking for new challenges and opportunities to avoid getting stuck in a rut.

What am I reading this week?

Wayward Galaxy 4 | Jason Anspach and J.N. Caney

Space Science Fiction crossed with Red October military drama is my kryptonite. In book four, the Americans gone native are making colonial life work in a new world where everyone and everything offers a unique opportunity to eat them or wreck their day. Every search mission turns up answers to questions laid out in the first three books. Also, there is building peril from the communist opponents who followed the first colonists from Earth but somehow ended up setting up shop first.

The growing pains of building the military camp into a functional city are added to the military peril. Where the native O.G. settlers are rubbing elbows with former communist enemies and wayward latecomer army forces and their advanced A.I. life forms who provide the brain power to keep everyone fed and trained to function as a single team. The opponents have similar AI capabilities which amuses me when I think about Maxwell Smart TV character robots having a high noon show down on a deserted street. The RUPAC enemies are as campy a version of villians as any B movie comparison you can draw. Think Boris and Natasha with spaceships.

Some descriptions of machines doing difficult things needed to be easier to follow. I will get over it. I like how they tell backstories to fill out the characters in a form that supports the book's pace.

I look forward to the rest of the series.