Autumn has arrived in New Zealand. Finally!
For many of us, THIS is the best of seasons, with the change of colours, the cooler days, the rain (finally) after the Hawke's Bay many days of drought, the changing leaves in the vineyards as I pootle homewards are fun to follow, the shorter days/longer shadows combo, and yet it's not yet cold enough for fires or special heating and the extra layers of clothing are not quite yet a necessity.
I love autumn!
2 Seth's message for the week
Wasting it
When you bought your first smartphone, did you know you would spend more than 1,000 hours a year looking at it?
Months later, can you remember how you spent those hours?
When you upgraded to a new smartphone, so you could spend more hours on it, did you think about how you had spent so much of your ‘free’ time the year before?
If we wasted money the way we waste time, we’d all be bankrupt.
3 Poetry corner
Spiderweb
From other angles the fibers look fragile, but not from the spider’s, always hauling coarse ropes, hitching lines to the best posts possible. It’s heavy work everyplace, fighting sag, winching up give. It isn’t ever delicate to live. Kay Ryan (2010) |
4 The Immortal Jukebox
Great piece on Ry Cooder's version of I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine (from Bop Till You Drop)
5 Brevity is great in an email
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| Photo by Webaroo on Unsplash |
I'm winning the email war (for now - don't get cocky Wozza) thanks to this article.
Overtime: Extra Seth
The paradox of selfishness
Often, we choose to be selfish because we feel insufficiency.
“I don’t have that much, how can I possibly share it?”
The insecurity that comes from feeling like our foundation is weak or our future is uncertain can cloud our instinct to be generous. Like a drowning person, we cling ever tighter to the life buoy.
You see where this is going…
The single best way to find sufficiency and confidence and trust and forward motion is to do precisely the opposite of what our instincts might tell us.
In an economy based on connection, trust and attention, the posture of generosity is not only the highest-yielding strategy, it’s also the right thing to do.
Ideas shared go up in value. Doors opened turn into new opportunities for all.
