Senses working overtime #427

1 How I felt this week

2 Reading: Lionel Messi 

How Lionel deals with anxiety. Excellent article.

3 Reading: Marianne Faithfull - memories, dreams and reflections

I finished Loud in New Plymouth and needed something to get me through until I got home, so I picked this up from the little secondhand bookshop by the library. Pretty sure I read it years ago but it's a dim recollection and I'm enjoying her prose style all over again.

4 Listening: Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina

We stopped off at the secondhand shop in Turakina on the way home from New Plymouth and I found a copy of this in good condition for $10. 

5 Reading:

Not All of Us Get to Be Ghosts In December I watch movies about ghosts with a woman I call mama though she is not my mother, only a woman who is kind, this all I require. We take breaks to lean against each other on the porch, her sucking smoke from between her fingers, exhaling its skirling; each mouthful dissipating, becoming something like air. My breath’s a less impressive phantom, fleeting silver in the cold light. Standing there in our small shadows, we discuss the ways of the dead, their metaphysics, as if we were experts by osmosis, a certain knowledge absorbed. I say I think our ghosts become us, or at least reside in our dark like tenants we haven’t the heart to kick out. She says, though she hasn’t quite figured it out yet, there are rules: not all of us get to be ghosts. Leila Chatti (2018)

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