Showing posts with label Happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happiness. Show all posts

Friday, May 19, 2023

Senses working overtime #419

1 Watching: Continuum




Great show - we're up to season 4 on demand.


2 Reading: Something So Strong (Chris Bourke)




It's okay but a very lateral, and then this happened, narrative style. Gives a glimpse behind their cheeky chappie image though.


3 Listening: Masters Of Reality - Sunrise On The Sufferbus




With Ginger Baker employing all of his genius on drums, this is a great album!


4 Reading: The messiest band breakups in history




5 Listening and watching: Hamilton County Bluegrass Band




Great clip from the archives.


Overtime: Happiness is the wrong question

Friday, June 25, 2021

Senses working overtime #320

1 Pleasure and happiness

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

2 Our Land - Langston Hughes 


We should have a land of sun, 
Of gorgeous sun, 
And a land of fragrant water
Where the twilight is a soft bandanna handkerchief
Of rose and gold, 
And not this land
Where life is cold.

We should have a land of trees,
Of tall thick trees,
Bowed down with chattering parrots
Brilliant as the day,
And not this land where birds are gray.

Ah, we should have a land of joy,
Of love and joy and wine and song, 
And not this land where joy is wrong.

3 In Control Seth Godin

Is this a want or a need?

Do you know anyone who has managed to gain control over things outside of their grasp? Honking at traffic serves no purpose other than to express a need to control the uncontrollable.

Why do we work so hard to try to capture control over things that are clearly not in our control?

And what would happen if we stopped trying and worked on the things we can influence instead?


4 How ‘Soft Fascination’ Helps Restore Your Tired Brain



5 Being open-minded 

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith on the challenge of being open-minded:

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

Source: Economics, Peace and Laughter

Courtesy of James Clear's newsletter.

Overtime: 

“The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

Friday, February 2, 2018

Senses working overtime #145

1 Street art from Argentina



More here.

2 Happy happy joy joy
Everything you wanted to know about happiness in one great graphic. Here's a mere snippet:




3 French illustrations



More oh la la...here and here

4 Hogarth self portrait
Excellent bit on a man and his dog - in this case satirist William Hogarth and his pooch.




5 Your train is delayed. Why? 
This is great - a doco that The Lunch Room suggested (The Lunch Room is also a nifty newsletter you should check out).

Overtime




In Groundhog Day, Phil Connors asks his bowling buddy,“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?


And his buddy, who’s a little drunk, looks at him and says, “That about sums it up for me.”

Great piece on one of my favourite movies by Austin Kleon.