Senses working overtime #481

1 Feeling balanced this week:

Photo by Deniz Altindas on Unsplash

2 Reading: All You Need Is Love - Peter Brown/ Steven Gaines

A collection of interviews the two did back in the day (mostly with others, rather than the fabs) while researching for their book The Love You Make.

3 Listening: Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

The title track takes up side one and it never gets old.

4 Listening: WTWMC True Colours

Yes!! We. Are. Done. 

The playlist boasts 240 songs with a colour in the title. I feel it is our best effort yet. You be the judge.

5 Rest in peace: John Mayall

Mayall's breakthrough. He's far left next to Slowhand

Remember him this way - Room To Move

Overtime: Joy

If we want to turn sadness to joy and suffering to pleasure, we must always consider the interest of others before our own; in all matters we must be optimistic and never pessimistic. This will naturally change our mood for the better.

Venerable Master Hsing Yun

Senses working overtime #479

1 New listing: Maple Grove

Yes, we have decided to sell Maple Grove, so we have listed it with Property Brokers (Waipukarau). Tough decision but we are looking for a fresh start in another location.

2 Listening: WTWMC - True Colours

The amigos have just completed White, Blue is happening next week.

3 Listening: Strawbs - Hero And Heroine (1974)

I found a secondhand copy of this at My Music Taupo. It's brilliant! More info about it here.

4 Watching: UEFA Euros 2024

Two semi-finals and two amazing, cracking, breathtaking goals. One by Lamine Yamal and one by Ollie Watkins.

Final is Monday morning NZ time. Come on England!

5 Reading: The best movie soundtracks of all time!

Overtime: Projects and the long haul - Seth Godin

Rome was built in a day.

It wasn’t finished in a day. In fact, it’s still not finished.

But the day someone said, “this is Rome,” and announced the project, it was there.

Sometimes we get hung up on the beginning, unwilling to start Rome unless we’re sure we can finish it without incident.

Sometimes we get hung up on the finishing, starting things all the time but blinking in the face of Resistance and wandering away. The long haul is simply your list of completed projects. A career is not a series of tasks. It’s the chance to build things.

Senses working overtime #477

1 Theme of the week: I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more - Bob Dylan.

More about the song here.

2 Listening: Wonderful Life - Black

A great video to this one too. Always worth watching.

3 Reading: George Orwell - Selected Essays

4 Watching: The Yellow Birds (on Netflix)

I really loved this film. Would hold up to repeat viewings too.

5 Listening: WTWMC True Colours

Yes this is still going strong - we had a brief hiatus while Greg and his wife were overseas. But the boys are back!

Latest colour was Purple and its offshoots.

Watch in real time as offshoots of Green is up for exploration this week.

Overtime: 

"One of life's counterintuitive lessons is that you will often gain energy by spending a little bit of energy.

When you feel lethargic and like you want to lay around all day, it is usually the case that getting up and moving will make you feel better than simply sitting around. Getting outside for 10 minutes or doing the first set of a workout or simply stretching on the floor for a moment — anything to get your body moving — will often leave you feeling more energized.

If you want to get your day going, then get your body going. It's harder for the mind to be sluggish when the body is moving."

James Clear

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)

Senses working overtime #467

1 Autumn at Maple Grove this week

Same tree at Maple Grove, different week - really! Check it out.

2 Listening: Field Music (their debut album)

If you wanted one song to try: If Only The Moon Were Up

3 Reading: Bleak House

 

I know, it feels like Groundhog Day in this edition, but now at page 603 (out of 720), I'm on the home straight. Plus, it's good!

4 Watching: 3 Body Problem

It was okay, started well and kept us watching but it could have run half the length and still been as effective.

5 Listening: WTWMC True Colours playlist

We're up to shades of red - watch how it plays out in real time this week (G 'Yee Har' K's choice).

Overtime: 

Writer and scholar C.S. Lewis on what why small choices matter:

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible."

(Courtesy of James Clear)