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 #313

1 Shadow play in Curtiz films

Enjoyed this article on Michael Curtiz' use of shadows. Watching a Netflix documentary on Elvis Presley I realised that I've never seen Curtiz' King Creole starring Elvis (still from KC in black and white above). Need to correct that. 

2 The kindest people

“The kindest people are not born that way, they are made. They are the sounds that have experienced so much at the hands of life, they are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson. The kindest people do not just exist – they choose to soften where circumstance has tried to harden them, they choose to believe in goodness, because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary. They have seen firsthand why tenderness is so important in this world.”

– Bianca Sparacino (via Swiss Miss)

3 Maya

Author and poet Maya Angelou on how hard it is to make it look easy:

"I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy. Of course, there are those critics — New York critics as a rule — who say, Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer. Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language."

Source: The Paris Review Interviews: Volume IV (via James Clear)

4 Austin on Star Wars

Fun group of random thoughts as Austin shows SW Episode 4 to his 8 year old.

5 Walking!

The benefits of my walking around the Sports Park at lunchtime (not pictured above) are explained here.

Overtime: The story of Mary Ann Vecchio - the 14 year old girl in that famous Kent State shooting photo (yes - 14 - I was unaware of that as well).