Senses working overtime 473

1 Autumn at Maple Grove

Jerry and Gracie, Maple Grove, June first, 2024.

2 Reading: Patti Smith - Devotion

3 Reading: Paulo Coelho - Maktub

Loving this book. 

This resonated this week: Everything always turns out well in the end. If things aren't going well, that's because you haven't yet reached the end.

4 Listening: Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man

From 1968 and tinged with Rishikesh and Fabs dust. Jennifer Juniper sums up that heady mix well.

5 Watching: Bodkin

Overtime: Seth Godin

The third impossibility

The first was radio and television. Humans around the world spending a significant portion of their waking hours consuming audio and video recordings of other people.

The second was the internet. Five to ten hours a day interacting, in real time, with other people, many of them strangers.

And the third is AI. We’re about to spend almost all of our time interacting with software that appears to have an understanding of us and the world around us. All the time, in real time.

Senses working overtime #457

1 Feeling this week (with a seven day virus)

2 Reading: Anne Tyler's Ladder Of Years

Thanks to some time off work dealing to that virus, I have moved on to this after finally finishing Killing Commendatore (681 pages!!). 

I'm about halfway through Roderick Random as well. Ladder of Years has been in the to-be-read pile for over a year - it's time is now!

3 Listening: Donovan's For Little Ones

I've been after this second half of his superb 1967 double album A Gift From A Flower To A Garden for ages. Finally found one in Real Groovy.

If you want just one song - try The Mandolin Man and His Secret.

4 Watching: Yellowstone

Having finished Netflix' three seasons of The Good Doctor, we've moved on to this one, also on Netflix.

5 Listening: Robert Scott - The Green House

The week saw the welcome return of the Wander To Wozza's Music Club (WTWMC) - wherein three intrepid amigos trade album recommendations. 

This is our fourth year of this enterprise. Our 2023 playlist is here. 

Overtime: On love

Teacher and author Bruce Coville:

"Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they've touched you, if they're inside you, then they're still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart."

(Courtesy of James Clear)

Senses working overtime #432

1 The feeling this week...

2 Listening: Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven

3 Reading: Nick Hornby's Just Like You (it's excellent)

4 Listening: Pink Frost by The Chills

I picked up this and two other Chills singles in great condition with their original picture sleeves for $1.50 each in a second hand shop in Woodville today. Score!!

5 Reading: The two weirdest years in music

Overtime: 

from Year of the Rat The hot thud from light to laptop screen to window glass. An irritation set in loops. I asked myself what did I love. I loved to make time go away. Bridget Talone