Senses working overtime #377

1 A glitch in the matrix

A few times this week I've had the distinct impression that I'm wired up somewhere in The Matrix.

That's the theme for this week's 5 jewels.

2 A Door - W S Merwin (1973)

This is a place where a door might be
here where I am standing
in the light outside all of the walls

there would be a shadow here
all day long
and a door into it
where now there is me

and somebody would come and knock
on this air
long after I have gone
and there in front of me a life
would open
 

3 Space!  

Stunning new pictures via that James Webb telescope out there in the heavens.

4 Planet Squid Game

5 Rhetorical questions by Seth Godin

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

Overtime: A reminder

“The right person will know how to hold your love. The right person will choose you just as deeply as you choose them. You will not have to quiet the way you care, you will never feel like you are too much. You will not have to beg for the love you deserve. One day, you will be met where you are. One day, you will be someone’s favorite thing, and you will not be confused you will not feel like you are fighting for someone who isn’t fighting for you. One day, you will understand that it never mattered how tightly you held on to the wrong people, how intensely you tried, because the right people were always going to find you. The right people were always going to stay.”

– A Gentle Reminder by Bianca Sparacino (courtesy of Swissmiss)

Senses working overtime #376

1 Taller benches

10 benches in Copenhagen have been raised by 1 metre and set up in prominent areas of the city. A copper plate on each bench reads:

“Flooding will become part of our everyday life
unless we start doing something about our climate.
According to the latest UN Climate Report sea-levels are expected to rise with up to 1 meter before 2100 if the global warming continues.”

2 Boris

Excellent piece from the Beeb Beeb Ceeb.

3  The Best Sites and Apps to Track Your Books, Movies, Music, and Video Games

Keeping track of all the media you're into: There are apps for that.

4 Marvel movies ranked worst to best

5 Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere.

Overtime: The Bill Evans Album

Introducing Destination: Records, a new blog to house my album reviews. The Bill Evans' album is the latest MNAC selection (from Lewis this week) which will appear soon on the blog. It's brilliant!

Senses working overtime #375

1 Peregian Beach, Queensland, Australia

This week my senses have been reinvigorated thanks to a week in Noosa, staying at an Air B'n'B in Peregian Beach with the lions share of my family. Therefore, this week's jewels centre on my week in Queensland.

2 Backbeat Records/ Bad Habit Records

I managed a visit to each of these shops in Nambour on the one rainy day we had. Two lovely owners who loved to chat (The Bad Habits guy even opened the shop up for me specially) and a couple of cool purchases later = smiling. 

3 Lord Asher 

Asher was the undisputed star of the show. Here he is with Mema and Papa, shortly before he took an unscheduled dip.

Mema to the rescue

4 Dolphin Point

Cracker day for a walk to Dolphin Point in the Noosa National Park. 

5 Australia Zoo

We're all big Steve Irwin fans so a visit to Australia Zoo was a must do. Elephants and kangaroos were big hits.

Overtime: And then, time to travel back to regular life (that's my pre-flight from Brisbane, pre- 3 hour drive home from Wellington face)

Senses working overtime #374

1 Penguin Classics Marvel collection.

This is a thing!

2 Select committee hearings into Jan 6 paint a picture

3 The endearing power of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah 

4 Where and when the Black Death originated

5 The real story behind the Stars and Stripes

Overtime: The depths of Wikipedia

Senses working overtime #373

1 Twenty great American road trips (yes - the Pacific Coast Highway is in there)

2 A look at the first ten minutes of Pixar's Up.

3 The team at the Oxford English Dictionary felt some nervousness about writing the definition for “Terf”...

4 How to have those awkward conversations

5 Twenty ways the Supreme Court just changed America

Overtime:

Poet Danielle Doby on the power of small acts:

"When you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime.

No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise."

Source: James Clear