Senses working overtime #377

1 A glitch in the matrix

A few times this week I've had the distinct impression that I'm wired up somewhere in The Matrix.

That's the theme for this week's 5 jewels.

2 A Door - W S Merwin (1973)

This is a place where a door might be
here where I am standing
in the light outside all of the walls

there would be a shadow here
all day long
and a door into it
where now there is me

and somebody would come and knock
on this air
long after I have gone
and there in front of me a life
would open
 

3 Space!  

Stunning new pictures via that James Webb telescope out there in the heavens.

4 Planet Squid Game

5 Rhetorical questions by Seth Godin

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

Overtime: A reminder

“The right person will know how to hold your love. The right person will choose you just as deeply as you choose them. You will not have to quiet the way you care, you will never feel like you are too much. You will not have to beg for the love you deserve. One day, you will be met where you are. One day, you will be someone’s favorite thing, and you will not be confused you will not feel like you are fighting for someone who isn’t fighting for you. One day, you will understand that it never mattered how tightly you held on to the wrong people, how intensely you tried, because the right people were always going to find you. The right people were always going to stay.”

– A Gentle Reminder by Bianca Sparacino (courtesy of Swissmiss)

Senses working overtime #242

1 God save the Queen

The freshest opening of parliament once again had the Queen as the star on show.

2 Poetry corner

Wish Please one more kiss in the kitchen before we turn the lights off W.S. Merwin (2016)

3 Christmas spirit anyone?

Try these adverts from UK giants!

4 Christmas music?

Vox has that covered too!

5 Year Of The Monkey

I've just finished this latest piece of writing from Patti Smith. I'll need to re-read this one - loads going on!

Overtime: Leadership lessons from Santa

Ho ho ho for another year!

Senses working overtime #166

1 The Black Monday Murders

As featured on Warren Ellis' newsletter. This is a page from The Black Monday Murders comic by Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker and Michael Garland. 

Extraordinary image - the light giving the finger must have been deliberate, the table that looks like a sinister beetle is very cool and the figures presented at the desk and doorway are intriguing.

2 Mexico!!

Great feel good story - how the Mexicans are thanking South Korea for their World Cup miracle against the world champions!

3 Big Big Train
Brand new from the wonderful Big Big Train:




4 Poetry Corner

In Time The night the world was going to end when we heard those explosions not far away and the loudspeakers telling us about the vast fires on the backwater consuming undisclosed remnants and warning us over and over to stay indoors and make no signals you stood at the open window the light of one candle back in the room we put on high boots to be ready for wherever we might have to go and we got out the oysters and sat at the small table feeding them to each other first with the fork then from our mouths to each other until there were none and we stood up and started to dance without music slowly we danced around and around in circles and after a while we hummed when the world was about to end all those years all those nights ago W.S. Merwin (2001)

5 The Moon
I find the moon endlessly fascinating. 1969 left a deep impression on me. 

Feast yer eyes on these newly released high resolution images:

Overtime: Hi-Revving Tongues
I 've just bought a new compilation of New Zealand's Hi-Revving Tongues. Now billed as Nu Zild's first psychedelic band from the late sixties.

They had a big hit, also in '69, with a cover of Rain and Tears but I prefer this guitar and organ fueled masterpiece from two years earlier.

Oh, okay then. Here's their cool cover hit as well...