It's taken me a couple of weeks but I've finished David Copperfield and feel a little bereft. Charles Dickens' favourite is a great novel. I'm missing reading it and living with the characters already.
2 Something is more interesting than this - Seth Godin
And now, that’s always true.
Whatever you’re doing.
No matter who you’re with.
Something, somewhere, is more interesting than this.
And it’s in your pocket.
All the time. As long as the battery lasts.
There’s an alert, a status update, breaking news. There’s a vibration or a text, just waiting. Something. Right now.
Until infinity.
Unless we choose to redefine whatever we’re doing as the thing we’ve chosen to do, right here and right now.
3 Small kindnesses I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”
Danusha Laméris
4 The Batman
Love this cover for issue 8 of THE BATMAN'S GRAVE
5 Max von Sydow
Star of my favourite movie of all time - Pelle The Conqueror. You absolutely, and utterly believe in him in that role (and others). Rest in peace.
Overtime: McCoy Tyner
Sadly another great artist, McCoy Tyner has also passed away recently.
Overtime: Oh dear, oh dear
Great piece by Frank Rich on the disaster that is Trump and his response to Covid-19. Poor America - my heart goes out to you all (R and D alike).
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