Senses working overtime #256

Coming to you from Sunday!

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

The lock-down has meant that every day feels like the Sundays I experienced growing up in the sixties and seventies in Nu Zild: no shops open, no mobility outside of the local area I lived in (only so far I could go on my Raleigh bike), no mail, no sport. 

All I had was: local exploration, reading, and listening to music!! 

Hey - exactly what I am doing now in lock-down!

1 Groundhog Day

This great movie is relevant, again, and again.

2 Kenny Rogers

One of my first albums back in the early seventies was Kenny Rogers and The First Edition's Greatest Hits. I remember looking at it for a while in the shop and saving up for it, slowly. When I finally bought it, costing me $5.75 of hard earned pocket money, I played it a lot. 

This interview was suggested by Austin Kleon and it's a great view of KR.

Rest in Peace Kenny. 

3 The semiotics of face-masks

Seth Godin sums it up for us!

4 Stages of grief and the world as it is - Austin Kleon

“We’re feeling a number of different griefs. We feel the world has changed, and it has. We know this is temporary, but it doesn’t feel that way, and we realize things will be different…. Understanding the stages of grief is a start. But whenever I talk about the stages of grief, I have to remind people that the stages aren’t linear and may not happen in this order. It’s not a map but it provides some scaffolding for this unknown world. There’s denial, which we say a lot of early on: This virus won’t affect us. There’s anger: You’re making me stay home and taking away my activities. There’s bargaining: Okay, if I social distance for two weeks everything will be better, right? There’s sadness: I don’t know when this will end. And finally there’s acceptance. This is happening; I have to figure out how to proceed. Acceptance, as you might imagine, is where the power lies.”

5 Tips on living with yourself from an expert with 50 years experience  

Billy Barr lives in Gothic, Colo., a silver mining town
 that was abandoned more than 100 years ago.

This is a good list of 5 tips from Billy Barr, a guy who knows what he's talking about!

Overtime: This week's sign off from Warren Ellis:

Go sit by a window, or stand by your front door, for five minutes.  Take in some light and some air and just be there for five minutes.  Be at peace, take some slow breaths, and relax, just for five minutes. Little steps.  Day by day. You know how to do this. Look after yourself first. Hold on tight.  See you next week.