Senses working overtime #375

1 Peregian Beach, Queensland, Australia

This week my senses have been reinvigorated thanks to a week in Noosa, staying at an Air B'n'B in Peregian Beach with the lions share of my family. Therefore, this week's jewels centre on my week in Queensland.

2 Backbeat Records/ Bad Habit Records

I managed a visit to each of these shops in Nambour on the one rainy day we had. Two lovely owners who loved to chat (The Bad Habits guy even opened the shop up for me specially) and a couple of cool purchases later = smiling. 

3 Lord Asher 

Asher was the undisputed star of the show. Here he is with Mema and Papa, shortly before he took an unscheduled dip.

Mema to the rescue

4 Dolphin Point

Cracker day for a walk to Dolphin Point in the Noosa National Park. 

5 Australia Zoo

We're all big Steve Irwin fans so a visit to Australia Zoo was a must do. Elephants and kangaroos were big hits.

Overtime: And then, time to travel back to regular life (that's my pre-flight from Brisbane, pre- 3 hour drive home from Wellington face)

Senses working overtime #374

1 Penguin Classics Marvel collection.

This is a thing!

2 Select committee hearings into Jan 6 paint a picture

3 The endearing power of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah 

4 Where and when the Black Death originated

5 The real story behind the Stars and Stripes

Overtime: The depths of Wikipedia

Senses working overtime #373

1 Twenty great American road trips (yes - the Pacific Coast Highway is in there)

2 A look at the first ten minutes of Pixar's Up.

3 The team at the Oxford English Dictionary felt some nervousness about writing the definition for “Terf”...

4 How to have those awkward conversations

5 Twenty ways the Supreme Court just changed America

Overtime:

Poet Danielle Doby on the power of small acts:

"When you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime.

No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise."

Source: James Clear

Senses working overtime #372

1 The race to reclaim the dark

2 Disney adults

It's the happiest place on Earth - what's not to love?

3  Hoboken Hasn’t Had a Traffic Death in Four Years. What’s It Doing Right?

4 The best science fiction books you've never heard of

5 Why you can't remember being born

Overtime: Collective wisdom from Pocket saves - Part 1 and part 2

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."

Senses working overtime #370

1 Solitude is not loneliness

2 The importance of rest - Poet May Sarton

“I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged, damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.” — Journal of a Solitude

3 Proactive and reactive thinking - Thomas Oppong

4 Tarzan in real life (sort of)

(Courtesy of Swiss Miss)

5 The best music of 2022 so far (according to Alexis Petridis)

Overtime: 

"Usually, the better someone does their job, the easier it looks. You rarely realize how hard it is until you try it yourself."

James Clear

Senses working overtime #369

1 Maverick

2 The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi

3 The movies of the summer (American version)

4 Celebrating Wendy Froud (a.k.a. The Mother of Yoda)

5 The science behind likely multiple infections of Covid

Overtime: Euphoria

“For me, euphoria is simply the act of waking up, making my coffee, and sitting down with a book and being able to read.”   Elliot Page