Senses working overtime #470

1 Autumn at Maple grove

Yes, a return to that tree at Maple Grove. Leaves are clinging on.

2 Reading: Maktub - Paulo Coelho

I'm trying not to read this too quickly. A couple of pages a day is enough - otherwise I won't digest the messages and I need to savor the experience.

3 Reading: Degrees Of Separation - Laurence Fearnley

After taking ages to read Bleak House and Scattershot, I'm whizzing through two books too quickly.  

4 Listening: All About Me - Mel Brooks

I am still enjoying listening to this audiobook on my daily commute. Mel Brooks! What a guy!

5 Watching: All Quiet On The Western Front (2022 German version)

I have had this on my Netflix list for ages and we plumped for it last night. I'm usually not keen on foreign language films dubbed into English (I'd prefer to watch it in the original language with sub-titles, but I knew I'd be outvoted). Didn't matter too much with this visceral portrayal of a tragic story. Haunting is an overused adjective, but it sums up the experience of watching this film.

Overtime: 

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Voltaire.

Senses working overtime #468

1 Autumn at Maple Grove continues.

2 Reading: Scattershot - Bernie Taupin

Yes! Having finished Bleak House and the current Mojo, I'm on to this easy read (thanks to K Simms esq for the loan).

3 Listening: Fleetwood Mac - Future Games

Rediscovered this one this week. A five-star classic.

If you want a sample of the Christine McVie magic held within its grooves, try Morning Rain.

4 Listening: Mel Brooks - All About Me

5 Listening: WTWMC True Colours

Amigo Kev has this week's choice (he's gone slightly rogue and chosen 'blues'). Watch in real time as the three amigos grapple with choosing 5 songs from the 2 billion with 'blues' in the title. Choices drop from Monday onwards.

Overtime: 

Writer and designer Edith Wharton on what causes old age:

"The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia.

Habit is necessary; but it is the habit of having careless habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."

(Courtesy James Clear)