This is probably going to seem like a trumpet-blowy, tiny violin-whining kind of a post. And I am allowing myself this with the hope that to get it out there might be the next step to doing something differently. I have recognised for a long time something that it difficult to admit to others: IContinue reading “Watered down and weary”
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Read for your life!
When life gives you an internal sludge swamp of emotions, read. Preferably about BIG MYSTERIOUS THINGS, and convince yourself you’re interested (and interesting?) for a while.
Less kinaesthetic, more anaesthetic
At my computer in the office, I locked the screen to go and get my second coffee of the morning. This beautiful locked-screen image met my eyes and distracted me (temporarily) from thoughts of my next coffee (only my second one of the morning. By 09:09, I know!) It’s a picture of an Indian white-eyeContinue reading “Less kinaesthetic, more anaesthetic”
Do it while you can (or, why is there any quantum to fluctuate?)
Something has to change. There are some small relational things that shrink my world to fit them. My perception is distorted and suddenly these minor things become the most urgent and important things in my world. Considering that this often involves colleagues/acquaintances, let’s just say that these relationships are certainly not the be and endContinue reading “Do it while you can (or, why is there any quantum to fluctuate?)”
On the usefulness of dream decoding
I enjoy recording my dreams and applying some light interpretation to them, and this week I experienced (again!) just how useful they can be! I went to Vienna a couple of weeks ago (and I still need to write about it). I visited the Freud Museum, the place where he lived and saw his patients,Continue reading “On the usefulness of dream decoding”
Every Third Thought – On Life, Death, and the End Game, by Robert McCrum
‘Turn a page, and you find a new distraction, or another version of reality. Is this not the search for a fuller kind of experience? Art, which helps us focis on our quality of life, might also inspire a richer understanding of our mortal existence.’ ‘There’s nothing straightforward in the relationship a thoughtful person hasContinue reading “Every Third Thought – On Life, Death, and the End Game, by Robert McCrum”
