I’ve gone through phases of mainly focusing on, in turn: music, songwriting, singing, and artworks. The next up is writing, then performing what I have written. None of the activities are switched-off. It’s just I start to feel pulled more in a different direction.
Random Thoughts:
I’m winning at being slow.
Skills and knowledge can now be learnt at any point in life because the resources are openly accessible. What is truly valuable is a learning that inspires the imagination to create rather than repeat.
Random Thoughts:
Artists observe. Intense feelings of empathy are welcome but lead only to misery if overwhelming.
I don’t think life is about the number of points scored, or marks totalled on both sides of a ledger.
Reliving memories of things going wrong can cause worry when presented with a similar situation. It is better to have learned, so that the replay isn’t necessary.
Why do answerers never say why “that’s a great question” is so great? I also would like to know why other questions aren’t that marvellous, with details of the grade achieved, percentile scored, and marks out of ten for effort 😉
Sunday is my favourite day of the week, but I wouldn’t want every day to be Sunday.
Saturday is when I can work a full day on what interests me most. I plan no work on a Sunday, but ironically this can be my most productive day because it’s usually when the best thoughts and feelings occur.
Random Thoughts:
Less than one workout per week generally sees a deterioration in fitness or strength. Once a week is the minimum to maintain athleticism in the short-term; twice has marginal improvements; three to four times sees consistent gains; more than four has diminishing benefits.
Sonnet 18 sounds great when repeated in a vocal melody with Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major.
Random Thoughts:
It is more fulfilling to create than consume.
Tip: The French in particular love it if, when visiting their country, you speak English at them and expect to be understood. Try also repeating yourself more slowly and loudly, as they might not have heard the first time.
Random Thoughts:
Add depth to 2D habits.
Who you choose to spend your time with is the most important decision you can make.
Getting what you want can be the worst thing ever to happen to you. Not getting what you want can be the best thing ever to happen to you. And vice versa.
I could perform my music, poems and monologues on open mics – and film it if I want to. Sounds good to me, as live audiences always lift up the energy.
Random Thoughts:
Powering down before the upload completes would be a pity.
Books, pen, pencil, paintings, guitar, piano, tea, coffee, flowers, trees, animals, peace, love.
Writing 50 threads within a theme, each comprising 1,000 words.
Random Thoughts:
The tender beauty in your eyes is my breathing.
Experienced reality is an interpretation of the senses.
Acting is imagination.
I really should be doing ALBOD on camera. So far though, better something than nothing.
Random Thoughts:
An over-focus on moving parts blurs the emergent meaning.
Cruelty, callousness, delusion, suffering. Love, kindness, truth, joy.
Increase leverage by delegation. Delegate to someone who is better at the task than you.
Parliament has a hilarious Gallery of the Grotesque, where British politicians have their oil painting portraits commissioned from grateful public funds. They look so masterfully earnest. Much advised if you fancy a laugh.
Random Thoughts:
I tend to pick and choose between “American” English and ‘British’ English, defaulting to the familiar unless the American version is clearly “better”.
If I am a robot then I am exquisite. This robot is rewriting the program, which was the point in the first place.
Sexiness sells the cornflakes.
Businesses refer to units sold. Businesses tap market trends. Businesses sell identity. But when the smoke clears and the mirrors fall, only what is real remains.
Robert Walker 