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Adult Children

When kids get bigger and older but don't actually grow up, what do you get? Adult Children comics!

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Bird and Moon

Laugh while you learn with classic and new comics from Bird and Moon! Made by Rosemary Mosco, these comics won the National Cartoonists Society’s award for Best Online Short Form Comic and were the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. Rosemary also makes science books for kids and adults and talks at birding festivals. She’s written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, PBS kids’ Elinor Wonders Why, Ranger Rick, and more.

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Brooke Bourgeois

Brooke is a cartoonist and illustrator based in London. Brooke is primarily driven to recording instances of humour and surprise, and her cartooning work has been published in The New Yorker, Private Eye, The Harvard Lampoon, and The Drift.

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Chuck Draws Things

Chuck makes comics about her experiences with mental health, specifically anxiety and depression…using pigeons. Why pigeons? She just thinks they’re funny and a good representation of an underdog figure.

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Cyanide & Happiness

Cyanide & Happiness is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, and Dave McElfatrick. The comic has been running since 2005. The comic and animations use stick figure art to present graphic, dark, and often surreal humor which has been described as 'seeming to have no taste boundaries whatsoever'.

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Daddy's Home

Daddy's Home appears in more than 250 newspapers and websites and is seen by 26 million people every day. Daddy’s Home is a fresh and funny look at the contemporary trials and tribulations of the contemporary family dynamic and the modern dad.

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DadToons

DadToons is a collection of single panel cartoons from the mind of John Zakour and drawn by the very talented Debora Martin. John thinks of these as a combination of dad jokes and cartoon memes on pop culture. Over his career John has sold thousands of gags, written for dozens of comic strips, written Simpsons, Rugrats and Mad comics. Plus he’s written for a number of late night talk shows.

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Dinosaur Comics

Dinosaur Comics is a comic about talking dinosaurs! It appears online and also in print in some newspapers and magazines!

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Effin' Birds

Effin' Birds is a daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words.

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Insanity Streak

Insanity Streak is an unpredictable daily comic strip with an obsessive desire for absurd… and, to make people laugh. The comic strip is written and drawn by multi award-winning Australian artist Tony Lopes, and is distributed to hundreds of newspapers and media outlets worldwide.

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Might Be Magic

A comic about a boy, Zeke, and his fairy god aunt Bela that only he and animals can see. Bela can only use her magic to help Zeke learn.

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Off the Mark

Off the Mark has been awarded Best Comic Panel by the National Cartoonists Society four times. That's a lot! It'll give you a bright and funny start to your day. It covers cats, dogs, and everything else.

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Parker Settecase

Parker Settecase hosts the Parker's Pensées podcast where he and his guests explore the deepest questions in Philosophy, Theology, Nature, and Life.

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Richard Bach

Richard Bach is the author of seventeen books, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, (and Illusions II), Life With My Guardian Angel, and Thank Your Wicked Parents.

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Rubes

Leigh Rubin is an accomplished author and cartoonist. He has written 20 books. 2023 marks the 39th anniversary of Leigh's internationally syndicated cartoon, Rubes®, which is distributed to hundreds newspapers and media outlets worldwide.

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Speed Bump

Dave Coverly, a native of Plainwell, Michigan, is the creator of the cartoon panel “Speed Bump”, which runs internationally in hundreds of newspapers and websites, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Globe & Mail (Toronto), and the Detroit Free Press. His work was named “Best in Newspaper Panels” by the National Cartoonists Society in 1995, 2003, 2014 and 2022.

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Tyson Cole

Tyson has been cartooning and illustrating since 2011 and has been featured in various publications such as Reader's Digest, the Saturday Evening Post, the Wall Street Journal, Air Mail, Yahoo!, the American Bystander, Alta Journal, Weekly Humorist, the Funny Times, Cartoon Collections, Funnies Extra!, Utah Business Magazine, and more.

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Working Daze

Working Daze is a comic strip written by John Zakour that centers around the working relationships of a group of mostly geeks who work for MMM (which stands for either MicroMacroMedia or MacroMicroMedia), a D list giant, impersonal software/tech company.

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Taking a moment each day to step back from day-to-day activity for a bit of peace and contemplation can reduce your anxiety, exercise your mind, and focus your decisions on your true priorities.

• Maxims of Ptahhotep
• St. Benedict's Rule For Monks
• Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
• readings from Epicurus
• Khawaja ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī
• readings from Henri-Frederic Amiel
• Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
• Mark Twain
• Lucy Mallory
• Robert Ingersoll
• the Book of Ecclesiastes
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát
• Nezahualcoyōtl (Nahua philosopher-king)
• The Dhammapada (a collection of sayings from Gautama Buddha)
• readings from Evagrius Ponticus
• Epictetus
• precepts of the Odawa and Ojibwe peoples (translated by Makade-binesi a.k.a. Andrew Blackbird)
• Lal Ded (14th c. CE Kashmiri Hindu mystic)
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Pirkei Avot (collection of maxims from the Rabbinic Jewish tradition)
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Sol Plaatje (Tswana proverbs)
• the Rhinoceros Sutra (very early Buddhist text advocating the merit of solitary asceticism for pursuing enlightenment as opposed to practicing as a householder or in a community of monastics)
• Heraclitus
• Rumi

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Update your subscription by texting back to add or remove authors/sources, for example "add epicurus", "remove benedict". You can also add/remove more than one at a time, for example "add epicurus ecclesiastes" or "remove nietzsche rumi". If you want to switch back in the future, you'll automatically resume where in the text you left off. Note: All commands are case insensitive, so you can text back with capital or lowercase letters and it doesn't make a difference.

Sample Command	Result
add epicurus	Subscribes to Epicurus
add 3	Subscribes to Epicurus using the numeric shortcut (see the section below for all the numeric shortcuts)
add epicurus nietzsche	Subscribes to Epicurus and Friedrich Nietzsche
remove benedict	Unsubscribes from St. Benedict's Rule For Monks
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remove nietzsche rumi	Unsubscribes from Friedrich Nietzsche and Rumi

Author/Source	Shortcut	Numeric Shortcut
St. Benedict's Rule for Monks	benedict	1
Lal Ded	ded	2
Epicurus	epicurus	3
Epictetus	epictetus	4
the Book of Ecclesiastes	ecclesiastes	5
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching	ching	6
The Dhammapada (sayings of Buddha)	dhammapada	7
Evagrius Ponticus	evagrius	8
Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát	khayyam	9
Khawaja ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī	al-ansari	10
precepts of the Odawa and Ojibwe peoples	makade	11
Nezahualcoyōtl	coyotl	12
Friedrich Nietzsche	nietzsche	13
Pirkei Avot	pirkei	14
Sol Plaatje (Tswana proverbs)	plaatje	15
Rumi	rumi	16
Rhinoceros Sutra	rhino	17
Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali	tagore	18
Edna St. Vincent Millay	millay	19
Heraclitus	heraclitus	20
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations	aurelius	21
Mark Twain	twain	22
Lucy Mallory	mallory	22
Robert Ingersoll	ingersoll	23
Henri-Frederic Amiel	amiel	n/a
Maxims of Ptahhotep	ptah	n/a

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Samuel Henry created Daily Wisdom Texts. He has degrees in philosophy and computer science from the University of Chicago.

Initially, he wanted to receive the daily reading from St. Benedict's Rule For Monks. Some friends thought it was cool so he added them. Friends wanted to share it with their friends so he built a website instead of adding them manually. It's all grown from there based on user feedback.

Taking a moment each day to step back from day-to-day activity for a bit of peace and contemplation can reduce your anxiety, exercise your mind, and focus your decisions on your true priorities.

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🙏 A daily moment of meditative reflection

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📖📲 Read classics of philosophy in easily digestible and applicable bites

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Adult Children

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Brooke Bourgeois

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Daddy's Home

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Off the Mark

Parker Settecase

Richard Bach

Rubes

Speed Bump

Tyson Cole

Working Daze

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🌐 Authors from around the world and across history

📖📲 Read classics of philosophy in easily digestible and applicable bites

🤔 Why text messages?

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Adult Children

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Chuck Draws Things

Cyanide & Happiness

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DadToons

Dinosaur Comics

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Off the Mark

Parker Settecase

Richard Bach

Rubes

Speed Bump

Tyson Cole

Working Daze

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