Senses working overtime #450

1 Feeling this week

Photo by Jorge Vasconez on Unsplash

2 Listening: David Crosby - Too Young To Die (from Thousand Roads)

3 Reading: Writer C. Raymond Beran on friendship

"What is a friend? I will tell you.

It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better, or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you.

With him you breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone. He understands. He understands. You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all—and underneath—he sees, knows and loves you.

A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself."

4 Reading: This is the way

Some practical life lessons from Taoism

5 Reading: Times 1000 - Seth Godin

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Overtime: Watching: Christmas movies

Senses working overtime #407

1 A brief history of pancakes

2 Crosby Stills Nash and Young - David Browne

Kev sent me a copy of this to read - nothing in there was a revelation but great to be reconnected with the twisted CSNY machinations and I still don't get why Young and Nash became so pissed off with Crosby at the end - wasn't like they didn't know him by then, right?! 

It also inevitably took me back to their music - of which I am mildly obsessed. Surprised me how good American Dream was, although it gets a bad press. Worth a revisit!

3 What rewatching old TV shows tells us about ourselves

4 What is a snack, really?

5 How coffee (caffeine) really affects our bodies

Overtime: Still Raining, Still Dreaming - Jimi Hendrix

A good track to listen to while it persistently comes down in the Hawke's Bay of New Zealand.

Senses working overtime #232

1 DB: comic hero

Love this!

2 Wicker's story


Great Vox piece that hooked me in via album covers and held my attention!

3 The Croz celebrated

Great series of links to lessons about music from an old warrior - David Crosby, hisself!

4 Scary guy

Boris as the joker

5 The real Brexit story
 Great summary from New Statesman of how this nightmare started and why it's so mind numbingly stupid!

Overtime: Grammar sticklers take note
The order of adjectives before a noun explained (and yes, there is one - whether you are aware of it or not!)

Senses working overtime #146

1 UK Parliament on the move...sort of

The Palace of Westminster needs a huge repair job. The BBC article asks and answers some questions. 

2 The Croz

David Crosby tells it like it is and I agree with his opinions on his own music: I’ve made three records in the last three years and I’m working on a fourth now. They’re good records. That’s what I should be doing. Whatever time I have left on this planet should be dedicated to making the best music I can. It’s the one contribution I can make. Music helps things; it makes things better. Just like war drags down everything and brings out the worst in human beings, music brings out the best.

Rest of the interview here.

3 Star Wars books: How to buy!

Great run down of what's out there in the Star Wars fiction universe.

4 Love this (from Warren Ellis' newsletter)
Bryan Hitch variant cover for THE WILD STORM 12, colours by Alex Sinclair

5 Moral? Immoral?
Take this test to find out.

Overtime  

Photo by Aaron Bean on Unsplash

The top 15 cities to live in world wide have been named and there are no Nu Zild cities in the list. 

Where d'ya reckon that photo above is from? Coz that's #1...again!