“If you look for meaning, you miss what happens.”
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Can’t fault her commitment to keeping the door open rather than relaxing in her bed.
RIP David Lynch. Things were never quite the same after seeing Eraserhead.
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
— Susan Sontag
No matter how small and simple a life may appear to be, it is whole and infinite.
We are not Black Holes. Our darkness does not consume light. Rich and fertile, it is the very stuff out of which our light is made.
“Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.”
— Carl Jung
“…we uncover the essential impermanence of everything that arises; and that of course includes ourselves. Once this is seen – truly seen, not just accepted intellectually to be true – then there is nothing more to fear. To watch this unfold, from breath to breath, all the timescales from pulse rate to year’s end to geological epoch, unpicks in a moment our own house of anxiety in which we have been taught to live. Our long schooling in the myths of progress and responsibility, the weight of the future, the despair of failure – all gone in the lightness of the breath, the flicker of sounds from beyond the window, the actual presence of our body’s warmth against the good floor.”
‘Just enough’ technology seems exactly the right amount. Or of anything for that matter.
The only way I found that successfully dealt with the whole To Do/ Tasks/ Lists farrago was to get rid of them altogether.
No system, no lists, no problem.
I used to waste so much time faffing around with all sorts of apps and systems to absolutely no avail.
I find the things that really do need dealing with urgently tend to stay circulating in my head while the rest get automatically sorted by my mind without me having to do anything.
The things I remember get dealt with as and when, and what gets forgotten isn’t a problem anymore.
It’s not perfect but overall the benefit of all the time gained by not having to manage a Tasks/ Ideas system definitely outweighs the odd occasion when something does fall through the cracks.
The new Reeder app is an extraordinary product I can highly recommend.
A unified timeline of just about anything on the open web: RSS, the Fediverse, Bluesky, YouTube, Podcasts, micro.blog, Glass, Flickr, Comic Strip and Reddit (with more promised to come).
And all beautifully designed with an elegant yet simple and intuitive UI.
I haven’t seen Iconfactory’s Project Tapestry but Reeder certainly appears like a tough act to beat.
Happy hound.
It’s that time…
Where would we be without the darkness?