Category: Found objects
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Simplicity is the way home
The following quote is by William Rivers Pitt who was writing after the death of Eric Carle, author of the children’s book The Hungry Caterpillar: Simplicity: whatever can be done within reach of your arm. Eric Carle took 224 words, 22 lines and his paintbrush, and made the world better. Such a small thing, such…
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Do you remain awake for a short time after having your head lopped off?
OK, I don’t even know what to do with this. I came across it looking for something else. And if you are squeamish you might want to move on right about now. But. I know that when you watch a movie, like Game of Thrones or some other horror movie or period piece, and somebody…
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App review: Obsidian
I have been using Obsidian for well over a year now. It is my go-to tool for knowledge building and synthesising information. Five stars. Obsidian is a simple text-based information management system. It uses markdown language (basically a shorthand way of formatting your text) to build and organise personal notes. It also allows you to…
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Beyond words.
The proper response to this realisation is not argument, but awe. To be human, in my view, is to feel a deep gravitational pull towards something ineffable, that, if we can just for once get beyond words and reasons, is a matter of experience, and to which we reach out, silently, though not without misgivings;…
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Book review: the matter with things.
You are probably familiar with the idea that the two sides of our brains are responsible for different functions of our personality. For example, that our left hemisphere is more analytical, maths-oriented, more reasoning and ordered, whilst the right side is more creative, artistic, intuitive. Well this popular idea that our personalities are more dominated…
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Music: Jacob Collier
Take a quiet break to check out this musical offering. Jacob Coller is a young (28yrs) singer-songwriter out of London. His music has a heavy jazz influence but he cross-pollinates from many other music genres. A video of him performing the Bee Gees song ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ fell into my YouTube stream (link…
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Do you know the international hand signal for: ‘help me’?
I just found out about this today. Originally launched by the Canadian Women’s Foundation last year as an emergency signal for girls and women in abusive situations to covertly express their need for help whilst on video calls. The signal is useful in that it only requires one hand and can be flashed discretely and…
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