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Organized my sock drawer. It’s been a mess for years. Socks mostly just shoved in. In a pile. Hard to find things. A minor daily frustration near the beginning of every day. One does not realize how those little frustrations add up over time and begin to cognitively wear on you. Like a pebble in a shoe.

Took me about 20 minutes to fix it. Dumped them out, found matches, set aside ones I want to give away, tossed ones with holes. Feels great.

20 minutes to solve years of minor frustration. 20 minutes to make me just a little happier every day.

Now, to find 20 minutes more.

Of course, we can find empathic conversations today, but the trend line is clear. It’s not only that we turn away from talking face to face to chat online. It’s that we don’t allow these conversations to happen in the first place because we keep our phones in the landscape.

Stop Googling. Let’s Talk. – NYTimes.com

(via SLIP | @PhillipChbeeb & Renee Kester | @ElliotMossMusic – YouTube)

Wow. So beautiful and breathtaking.

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This is ingenious!

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Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

William Butler Yeats

The white man in that photo | GRIOT

attila:

Best thing you’ll read on the Internet for a while, I promise. This is one of my top 3 sports pictures of all times, and I didn’t know the full story behind – I’m sure you don’t. 68 and 72 were troubled times and Olympics, I am not sure we progressed that much since.

Strangely, my other two top sports pictures are Ali and Mandela, I am sure you know which ones. And then there’s that photo of Spitz being escorted away from the Olympics in 72, he’s at a London airport and doesn’t have a clue that the Israeli athletes have been killed by the terrorists. Mad world.

Jeepers! What a story.

Prince serenades Madonna at late-night Paisley Park gig | Local Current Blog | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio

As if to show off the band’s newly discovered chemistry, Prince followed up a rip-roaring rendition of “Guitar” with a lengthy, solo-filled jam to the Bill Withers song “Use Me Up.” After giving Grantis and his new bassist a turn at soloing, Prince slowed the song down and morphed it into a spacey, dreamy interlude, then tore through an impressive and complex piano solo that sounded like it was inspired in equal measure by Thelonious Monk and Jimi Hendrix.

Just another night in the Twin Cities.

Sherlock Special: Official TV Trailer – BBC One – YouTube

Can’t wait.

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

David Bohm (via Brain Pickings).

Harvest.