Friday, October 12, 2018

Senses working overtime #181

1 The Princess bride



Another day, another royal wedding. Jacky thought this dress was 'stunning' so this article is for her.

2 Poetry corner

Numeric Values

The Prime Mover
The Second Sex
The Third Wheel
The Four Seasons (see also Horseman)
The Fifth Dimension
The Sixth Sense
The Seven Hills (see also Dwarves)
The Eighth Wonder (see also Octomom)
The Nine Muses
The Tenth Inning
The Eleventh Hour
The Twelve Tribes

Elaine Equi (2015)

3 BBC 2 idents




4 Weird



The image, a street in Macau with the Grand Lisboa Casino looming in the background, is thought provoking (photograph by Paul Tsui, National Geographic), but the Twitter thread is also a wonderful dialogue.

5 More great poetry
In which Raymond Carver brilliantly sums up the joy of rain (and relaxing about life's mistakes):

Rain

Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgiveable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

Raymond Carver


Overtime
A story abour LeBron James and the most innovative school in America. Interesting reading. What have you got to lose?

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