Senses working overtime #449

1 Activity this week (painting window sills)

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2 Reading: The Boys - Ron and Clint Howard

3 Reading: The Lone Star Ranger - Zane Grey

4 Listening: Fighter Command from Gathering Speed - Big Big Train

5 Writing: Goo Goo G'Joob posts

Having re-organised my collection into straight alphabetical order I've been feverishly writing mini reviews for my music blog. Each time I have a rule that I need to listen to the record before I write about it.

 

Overtime: Maya Angelou on finding your family:

"Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what."

Senses working overtime #448

1 The feeling at the end of this week

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2 Watching: Welcome To Wrexham

3 Reading: edwin + matilda - Laurence Fearnley

4 Listening: Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde

5 Reading: Time's person of the year - Taylor Swift

Overtime: 

All I have learned, I learned from books (Abraham Lincoln)

It's holiday time which for me means more reading time - smiley face.

Senses working overtime #447

1 Feeling this week

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2 Watching: Mandalorian Season 3

3 Listening: Phil Collins Hand In Hand

4 Reading: Charle's Good Tonight - Paul Sexton

5 The best thing I read this week:

Ex-Microsoft general manager and writer, Peter Atkins on how to live life.

“Laugh. We’re all going to be dead anyway some day. So while you should try your hardest to make the most of your life, when something funny happens, when you make a mistake, or even (and perhaps especially) when bad things happen, it’s easier if you can laugh about yourself and the world.”

Source: Life Is Short And So Is This Book: Brief Thoughts On Making The Most Of Your Life

Overtime: 

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius

Senses working overtime #446

1 Feeling this week

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2 Reading: James Clear

"If you're stuck on a problem, try solving it at a different level.

If you ask, "What can we do to create a more unified country?" then you end up with vague answers that are difficult to implement. The problem is mostly unmanageable at that level.

But if you ask, "What can I do to create a more unified neighborhood?" then you can likely think of many small things you can do to connect your friends and neighbors.

Zoom in or zoom out. Problems that seem impossible at one level are often quite accessible from a different one."

3 Poetry corner

Leviathan There's a creature that usually lives in the sea. We brought it to land, fed it half of our own food. measured its wingspan, weighed its brain, stole its nightmares, sent it back to sea. This is why we can drown, why our dreams never match our lives. Victoria Chang (2022)

4 Viewing: Looking at Trees

5 Watching: The office on wheels!

Overtime: Seth Godin

In a competition between someone who knows the most and someone who is willing to learn the most, the edge usually goes to the curious and empathic professional, not the one who is simply protecting what’s already known.

Senses working overtime #445

1 The feeling this week

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2 Reading - The Stakes - Ben Sanders

3 Poetry corner

Prose poem Another day in the ruinous world, eating peanut butter off a knife. Tom Snarsky (2023)

4 Reading: Lost In Translation at 20

5 Listening: Daylist - Friday evenings on Spotify

Just type 'daylist' into your search and be amazed... Here's my chill alternative Friday evening playlist. Thanks to James for the nod to this and that LIT Guardian article above. Chur bro.

Overtime: 

Patience

It’s worth the most when it’s the most difficult to find.

Seth Godin

Senses working overtime #444

1 The feeling at the end of the week

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2 Listening: A Day In The Life - Brian Auger and The Trinity

3 Watching: Bodies (on Netflix)

4 Reading: Serotonin - Michel Houellebecq

5 Reading: Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello calls you to find what grips your soul:

"You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it or not, whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not. How many activities can you count in your life that you engage in simply because they delight you and grip your soul? Find them out, cultivate them, for they are your passport to freedom and to love."

Source: The Way to Love

Overtime: 

"You have to live with your mistakes, but you don't have to compound them.

To follow up an error with a foolish reaction is to lose twice. Given the reality of where you are right now, what is the best next action?

A wise response may not erase a dumb mistake, but it can redeem it."

James Clear.

Senses working overtime #443

1 Start of the week

2 Listening: Courtney Barnett - End Of The Day

3 Watching: Quarterback (Netflix) 

Really enjoying this one (although Jacky isn't). A lot of leadership lessons to be drawn from this series.

4 Reading: The Beatles - Now and Then

5 End of the week

Overtime: 

Haiku 307

I feel autumn rain
Trying to explain something
I do not want to know.

Richard Wright (1960)