The brook now running brown and a little faster and higher. Another twelve hours of this rain and we’ll have a full on raging torrent and widespread flooding. Chance of making it to work in the morning? 50/50 I’m guessing.
“It boils down to waking up moment to moment. Being present, open, unprotected. Allowing the tenderness, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, the love, and the wonder. The mind can make it all very complicated, but it’s really so very simple.”
— Joan Tollifson
Wet and windy out there so keeping warm and dry indoors watching the footie. Newcastle flying against Forest. Expecting similar from Liverpool vs. City later…
“And that to me is the healthy heart of contemplation (a.k.a. meditation). It’s an allowing. It’s a participation in the living truth that’s always already here, before we even have thoughts or names for it. And it’s embrace with that. It’s a participation with that, and in that, and as that. Contemplation is allowing an embrace from a more original state of affairs, an always already there naturalness. A matter-of-fact wonder of life as it is, ‘before’ we have a technique or an idea about things.”
— Prof. Michael Sheehy
Lovely evening watching our favourite local band, Peiriant, play a homecoming gig. And, bonus, discovered the local brewery have a new beer out!
What a glorious sunny day. Yoga, coffee, fixed gutter, coffee, fires, logs, laundry, 5k run, lunch and now taking the ancient hound for an incredibly slow walk round the church yard…
Torrential rain tomorrow and flooding in all probability so making the most of what’s here now.
”Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?”
— ‘Homeless’ Kodo Sawaki
The whole idea of so-called ‘Productivity’ is, not only just plain bullshit, but a distraction from just getting on with stuff.
As I periodically do from time to time, I’ve mercilessly stripped out loads of feeds from my Reader. Feels good. Experimenting with just my absolute fave ten sources in Sublime Feed (‘cos it’s free and I’m cheap!)
Boredom is wanting something that isn’t there. Contentment is having everything when nothing is there.
Apropos something completely unrelated, a couple of words popped up that accurately describe my attitude to the internet. Dabbler and dilettante.
As far as philosophy is concerned I’ve always thought Wittgenstein drew a rather neat line under the whole enterprise as we had come to understand it. Having seen it degenerate into little more than fruitless semantic language games he declared:
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Indeed. And with that pithy retort he left it all up to the poets.*
*Well, not exactly but it works for me.
Over the years (since around 1999) I’ve had countless blogs (ie. I’ve lost count). Using, in no particular order, Blogger, Moveable Type/ Typepad, Wordpress, Squarespace, Tumblr, Medium and Wordpress again (and again!). I’ve bought and let slide numerous domains and now find myself here on micro.blog sans domain.
Looking back there’s no sense of loss or regret over the demise of (probably) hundreds of thousands of words and pictures and I figure the same will be true of what’s here now.
I still have no idea why I started and continued to blog. Still don’t really. Maybe the answer is the same (and only) one I ever come up with for why I do anything – to see what happens.