Senses working overtime #569

1 Last week of term

Photo by Matthew Halmshaw on Unsplash

2 Listening: The Pineapple Thief - Variations on a Dream

3 Watching: Would I Lie To You 

These are reruns via TV on Demand and I laugh as hard as I did when I first saw them. Lee Mack is a comedy genius. 

4 Reading: The Guardian Weekly

I've started buying these again because of their brilliant reporting using a big picture lens on the Iran War.

5 Listening: WTWMC - Weather with you

This playlist is now complete (it has 1 extra song because member #3 added a bonus selection to the bonus round).  

Overtime: Aung San Suu Kyi

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Senses working overtime #182

1 I love the London Underground!

The London Underground map as it was in 1909! More here.

2 MCU (that's Marvel Cinematic Universe to you)

 

3 Poetry corner

Imaginary Conversation

You tell me to live each day
as if it were my last. This is in the kitchen
where before coffee I complain
of the day ahead—that obstacle race
of minutes and hours,
grocery stores and doctors.

But why the last? I ask. Why not
live each day as if it were the first—
all raw astonishment, Eve rubbing
her eyes awake that first morning,
the sun coming up
like an ingénue in the east?

You grind the coffee
with the small roar of a mind
trying to clear itself. I set
the table, glance out the window
where dew has baptized every
living surface.

Linda Pastan (2015)


4 All those books I've bought but not read...
There's a word for that apparently - tsundoku

5 How The Beatles logo came about
Roll up, roll up, read all the news about it, oh boy!




Overtime: Lee Mack