Showing posts with label Rituals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rituals. Show all posts

Friday, September 30, 2022

Senses working overtime #386

1 The steady demise of Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras




2 Seventeen ways to be more positive




3 The real magic of rituals 


Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

4 How Tetris went viral




5 The cheating scandal rocking the chess world




Overtime: From James Clear

"The brilliance of the stars would be invisible without the vast darkness of space behind them.

Do not wish away the difficult portions of life. They provide the contrast needed to appreciate the joyful moments."

Friday, June 17, 2022

Senses working overtime #371

1 Collage - Austin Kleon



2 The case for fewer friends


Photo by Nicole Herrero on Unsplash


3 Why we need rituals, not routines


Photo by Ashley Batz on Unsplash


4 Dr Jill Biden




5 Mall walkers




Overtime: 

Sasha Aickin, former CTO at Redfin, shares some financial advice from his grandmother:

"When you buy something cheap and bad, the best you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it. When you buy something expensive and good, the worst you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it."

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Senses working overtime #196

Captain Marvel



Are you really pleased that this is ready to set all sorts of records? Me too. 

See what I did there?

Bruce Willis



An under-appreciated talent? There is a case for that, but we've recently watched him play a brutal revenge seeking surgeon (hahahaha) in 2018's Death Wish on Netflix and, really Bruce? Really?

The Speaker



A superhero movie? Erm, nope. Although...

It's the way the Europeans and Yanks are styling John Bercow, the Speaker in the House of Commons, that is interesting here. 

Rituals and routines



Interesting article - as someone who has had his routines and rituals completely disrupted lately, I can freely attest that discombobulation is the result. This edition of JFTT is coming to you from Sunday! Yikes!

Here's a taste from the article:
As Maria Popova, founder of Brain Pickings writes, though very different in practice, routine and ritual seem to be two sides of the same coin-
While routine aims to make the chaos of everyday life more containable and controllable, ritual aims to imbue the mundane with an element of the magical. The structure of routine comforts us, and the specialness of ritual vitalizes us.
Star Wars Episode IX
Excitement is building. What do we know so far?

Overtime Noddy Holder



Having just finished his autobiography (Who's Crazee Now?) I figured it was time to celebrate with one of my fav Slade songs.