Senses working overtime #280

 1 Dorothea Lange's photos

2 Sonny Rollins interview

3 Get Austin Kleon's favorite 31 records here

4 Song Exploder is coming to Netflix

5 Rest in peace jazz critic Stanley Crouch and Ronald Bell (Kool and The Gang)

Thanks to Austin Kleon and his excellent newsletter for a lot of this week's choice cuts.

Overtime: A Fabulous Creation by David Hepworth

Loving his look at how the LP saved his, and my, life.

Senses working overtime #279

 1 The eight secrets to a fairly fulfilled life

Photo by Fabrizio Verrecchia on Unsplash

2 Poetry Corner

Haiku It is September, The month in which I was born; And I have no thoughts. Richard Wright (1960)

3 Optimism

Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash

Seth Godin on optimism: 

Optimism is an attitude and a choice. It involves context and focus. We’re not deluding ourselves with the reassurance that everything is going to be okay (because that’s not productive). Instead, we’re committed to finding things we can contribute to, work on and improve. We’re devoted to seeking out useful lessons and to discovering where the benefit of the doubt might be helpful.

4 Punctuate!

5 Karen explained

My kids used this term recently and I drew a blank (which they thought was hilarious!!).

Overtime: WeChat

Interesting.

Our family uses WeChat to keep in touch with our eldest son in China. It's the only app that he could connect to when he moved there a few years ago. So his three siblings and my wife and I all joined up. 

We use it purely as a communication tool and I had no idea there were other aspects to it.

But, as I like to say, "Who knows what's good or bad?"

Senses working overtime #278

 1 Spring 

Photo by Jacky Purdy Sept 2020 Takapau

2 Why the NBA matters

3 John Boyega interview

4 Pursuits

It is not that you want to be the one to make prints in the untrampled snow It is that you want to be in the snow without having touched it to be of the snow not beginning Everywhere commerce dictates the shapes that move you along that seat you at the table far from the snow far from the act of not touching  It only gets worse A girl’s gotta eat And your hunger’s  not even your own Heather Christle (2013)

5 Breathe

Overtime: Bill Withers Live in 1973

Senses working overtime #277

 1 An Earth Gone Mad

2 Tulsa turnaround

Great article from the BBC on that failed Tulsa Trump rally.

3 Bees

A man whose arms and shoulders and hands and face and ears are covered with bees says, I’ve never known such pain. Another man comes over with bees all over his hands— only bees can get the other bees off. The first man says again, I’ve never known such pain. The second man’s bees begin to pluck the first grave yellow bees off, one by one. Jean Valentine (1997)

4 Churchill's speeches as free verse

5 Poor Melania Trump.

Married to that guy.

Overtime: Rest in peace Sir Ken Robinson

Senses working overtime #276

 1 Let It Be? No chance!

The greatest band of all time are ALWAYS interesting to read about. Nuff said.

2 In the air tonight

Watching these guys listen to Phil Collins for the first time (we ever met) is cool, man.

3 Reporting on Kamala

Female politicians are up against it when the press reduces them to their appearance.

4 When black people appear on Seinfeld

5 Strategic mindset 

(a.k.a. setbacks and challenges)

Overtime: Light vs dark (Joe vs Donald - why are dark triad people so seductive?)

Senses working overtime #275

1 Fear of losing jobs

“It [increased productivity while working from home] was people being terrified of losing their jobs, and that fear-driven productivity is not sustainable,” Mr. Bock said.

New insights into the sustainability of working from home.

2 In praise of Schitt'$ Creeker Eugene Levy

3 Rejected! - Seth Godin

They didn’t reject you.

They rejected an application. They rejected a business plan. They rejected a piece of paper.

They don’t know you.

4 So, this is interesting...

Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's running mate.

So is Barack Obama's response: 

Kamala Harris as America’s next vice president, he’s underscored his own judgement and character. Reality shows us that these attributes are not optional in a president. They’re requirements of the job.

5 And this is just shameful by Trump and his cronies.

Shows, yet again, his lack of judgement and character .

 

Overtime: Random coffee. I like this. I think.

Senses working overtime #274

1 Mmmm - fresh vinyl in the morning!

2 Low grade depression

Michelle Obama speaks up.

3 The strange science of memory

4 The age defying benefits of gardening

5 The Mandela Effect

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