Senses working overtime #415

1 Wildflowers in California

2 Walking in the woods

Author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau on the value of walking in the woods:

"I come out to these solitudes, where the problem of existence is simplified. I get away a mile or two from the town into the stillness and solitude of nature, with rocks, trees, weeds, snow about me. I enter some glade in the woods, perchance, where a few weeds and dry leaves alone lift themselves above the surface of the snow, and it is as if I had come to an open window. I see out and around myself.

3 The end of the music business

4 Dominion vs Fox News

This was a fascinating story this week.

5 Taylor Swift!

Not only does she do 44-song sets, but Taylor Swift also does her due diligence.

According to a lawyer handling a lawsuit against celebrities who promoted FTX, Swift was the only superstar approached who asked FTX, “Can you tell me that these are not unregistered securities?” Swift apparently didn’t get the answer she was looking for, because she turned down the $100 million endorsement deal she was offered and avoided the legal mess others like Larry David, Shaq, and Tom Brady now find themselves in.

Karma really is her boyfriend.

Overtime: RIP Ahmad Jamal 92

Senses working overtime #345

1 Keanu Reeves knows the secrets of the universe

2 Unmarked Keys - Seth Godin

3 Jennifer Lawrence

4 Gratitude - Henry David Thoreau

Source - Austin Kleon's zine

5 Too much culture?

Overtime: 

The neurologist Oliver Sacks published a handful of essays before his death that were collected in Gratitude. He wrote:

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Source -  Austin Kleon

Senses working overtime #188

1 H D T
Loads of heavy hitters in this edition of JFTT. We've got the Fabs, 'Trane, the Band, poetry corner, and kicking us off this week - Henry David Thoreau.

Let's get this arty party started!!

Austin Kleon has a nice piece in his blog about Thoreau (and I want to tell him to read Walden: Life in the Woods!). He also explains why he put stickies over the eyes.

2 The Biblio-Mat

Ingenious device and a great idea to dispense old books to a good home. Love it!

3 The Beatles by The Beatles

This album is always in my top 5 of all time (usually sits at number 2 behind John Lennon/The Plastic Ono Band). There have been reams written about the album but this was a nice podcast style interview with Giles Martin that you might like.

4 The Band's It Makes No Difference

Excellent piece from The Immortal Jukebox on The Band and that song.

5 Poetry corner

We asked the captain what course
of action he proposed to take toward
a beast so large, terrifying, and
unpredictable. He hesitated to
answer, and then said judiciously:
"I think I shall praise it."

Robert Hass (1979)

Overtime The church of John Coltrane

Senses working overtime #82

1 Holy homework Batman! What a week!

Perspective is required: read this!

And then check out these tweets from Scotland.

2 Bizarro world

Welcome to Bizarro World. Here's how a New Zealand paper reacted to Donald Trump's ascension:

3 WTF part 2
Here's how the world's newspapers reacted.


4 Civil disobedience anyone?

This essay by Henry David Thoreau is a very timely read!

4 This too...

The election in the US has led to an outpouring of words - some nah nah nah toldjaso; many angry; but also some considered like this piece.

5 Hollywood depressed
Carl Reiner had the best tweet!

Overtime
Finally, my award for the best piece on the Trump win goes The New Yorker. Partisan and passionate. But I can't argue with them!