1 Alone
We've started season 8 this week. I'm recommending this show to workmates - such a great exploration of people's primal needs.
2 Books
Just finishing The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) and starting Birnam Wood this week. I'd never read the Atwood book - probably more famous now as a TV series - which I haven't seen either. Birnam Wood looked interesting, and its procurement is explained here.
3 Albums
This week's album clubs threw up Bonnie Raitt's - Slipstream and Silver Mt. Zion's He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms, for my listening pleasure. Eclectic is the word.
4 FOBO
Overtime: The persistence of rivers
Farmer and writer, Wendell Berry, on the persistence of rivers:"To a river, as to any natural force, an obstruction is merely an opportunity. For the river's nature is to flow; it is not just spatial in dimension, but temporal as well. All things must yield to the impulse of the water in time, if not today then tomorrow or in a thousand years. If its way is obstructed then it goes around the obstruction or under it or over it and, flowing past it, wears it away. Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged wild animal alert for the slightest opening. In time it will have its way; the dam like the ancient cliffs will be carried away piecemeal in the currents."
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