I’m not being silent. I’m listening. It’s just that the listening requires me to be silent.
I absolutely love that my wife calls her iPad mini a “Kindle” because that is, literally, the only thing she uses it for.
Awake with a bang
to the sound of thunderstorms
and nervous doggies
Seth Godin asks, “How many moons?”
In the past, I’ve said, “Our first approximation of others is ourselves.”
Our approximation is, more often than not, incorrect.
A perfect Saturday afternoon.
How To Control Time (Using The Power of Your Mind)
When you are excited for something to happen tomorrow, the day seems to move more slowly. The more excited you are, the more slowly the day seems to move.
When you dread something to come, time seems to move quickly. More quickly than we wish, it would seem.
Desire can control your perception. Especially your perception of time.
In times like now, with such strife, the hours seem like days, the days like weeks, the weeks like months. This is because we just want all of this to be over. We want the virus to be cured, the politicians to find compromise, and our society to become civil and just. We just want things to be whatever “normal” looks like to us.
None of these things will happen as soon as we would like. Most will take years. Some may never come.
You will find, when you accept things as they are and your inability to speed them up or slow them down, time moves at exactly the pace it should. Moment by moment.
After pruning my Twitter follows considerably using Tokimeki Unfollow, I’ve found myself comfortably below Dunbar’s Number.
This feels right.
There is much James Shelley admits he does not understand and likely never will which is exactly why he’s going to keep trying.
There’s lessons well beyond race in here. This is how one practices empathy and compassion.
Why I don’t trust music services…
One example? Maroon 5.
They released “Songs About Jane” independently when they were a LA club circuit band.
That 1st version is raw, funky, and damn near perfect.
After it became a hit, it was remastered and crap was added to make it more “radio”.