Senses working overtime #325

1 The benefits of swimming

Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash

2 Make the sign bigger?

3 Burberry ad starring Adam Driver

esss crazy, no?

4 Here are 25 small changes to improve your life

Photo: Tim Chow/Unsplash

5 A Life Audit

No wait - it actually sounds like a fun and worthwhile thing to try on a wet afternoon!

Overtime: 

“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”

– Kurt Vonnegut Jnr (courtesy of Swissmiss)

Senses working overtime #236

1 Love and marriage, and divorce

This new movie, starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, looks goooood! Looks like a return to Lost In Translation form for SJ. Fingers crossed.

2 Poetry corner

Suggested Donation In the morning I drink coffee until I can see a way to love life again. It’s ok, there’s no difference between flying and thinking you’re flying until you land. Somehow I own like six nail clippers and I honestly can’t remember ever buying even one. My sister came to visit and saw them in a small wooden bowl. I heard her laughing in the bathroom. I hope she never dies. There’s no harm in hoping until you land. The deer are awake. Is one pregnant? If they kept diaries the first entry would read: Was born Was licked Tried walking Then they’d walk away and no second entry would ever exist. I run the deer’s archive. It’s very light work. Visitors must surrender their belongings. Surrender to me your beautiful shirt. Heather Christle (2019)

3 Marks and Sparks get joyously jumpy!
I like this advert for M&S at Christmas!

4 Those fabulous sixties!



5 The Devil Next Door

Jacky and I watched this Netflix documentary about the man suspected of being Ivan The Terrible, from the Nazi death camps, in various stages of horror. So much drama at those eventual trials !

Overtime: Warren Ellis
This is becoming a regular feature but Warren continues to nail it in his newsletter sign offs. I love his positive approach and I'll continue to share them as long as they contain these sentiments:

Recognise that you carry your weight, and that you always turn out to be stronger than you think you are, and stronger than people tell you that you are.  Whatever the week brings, you're strong enough. Take time for yourself, take a breath, do what you need to do.  Weird as it seems right now, you'll figure it out.  Hold on tight. See you soon.