Comforting Thought: We are all made of #stars #quote #inspiration #space #unity #connection #love
“Do not miss me, because I will always be with you. In every drop of rain that touches your tongue, in every breath of air you inhale.” Rowan Coleman
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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #134
Rich people foods that taste bad, letters to a multispecies kin, people vultures, a 33 year old fruit bat, ice-skating, the world’s most horny countries and other esoteric topics, it’s edition #134 #ContentCatnip #Interesting
Comforting Thought: The appetites of the soul by Aldous Huxley
Two great appetites of the soul – the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence – were fused with, and interpreted in the light of, a third – the urge to worship.
~ Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception and Heaven & Hell
Travel: The loneliest buildings in the world
I love secluded and lonely places where there’s nobody around for miles. That’s why the Highlands and Islands hold such appeal to me and so here’s a couple of lonely places may make you feel in turns melancholy or yearning for a place where nobody can disturb you.
Book Review: Only The Moon Understands The Beauty Of Love by Thomas Slatin
Publisher: Self Published Review in one word: Transmutation Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 “Only The Moon Understands The Beauty Of Love” by Thomas Slatin is a touching and thoroughly beautiful memoir that intricately blends personal anecdotes, reflections, and poetic prose. The book delves into the author’s life journey. It’s marked by moments of joy, sorrow, reflection, memory and profound introspection.Continue reading “Book Review: Only The Moon Understands The Beauty Of Love by Thomas Slatin”
Comforting thought: The silence of the bird and the lily by Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) implored people to learn from the silence of the lily and the bird. In other words to learn to refrain from speaking. He believed that we should learn this because we humans possess the power of speech and so we should learn the art of silence. According to Kierkegaard ourContinue reading “Comforting thought: The silence of the bird and the lily by Søren Kierkegaard”
The dodgy B-grade VHS movies of my childhood
What TV shows did you watch as a kid? It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realised that the cartoon Gummy Bears wasn’t just in English, it was syndicated all over the world and many other kids knew this theme song in their own language. Here’s the theme song in dozens of differentContinue reading “The dodgy B-grade VHS movies of my childhood”
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #133
This week, weird #food combos, a timeline of a #posthuman galaxy, wolpertingers, purple jellyfish and their friends, how to have better arguments, and other esoterica #art #culture #connection
Polymer clay figurine making is a small big pleasure
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. As a long-time fan of the UK TV show, The Great Pottery Throwdown I have developed a fascination for hand-building and handcrafting things using clay. Some amazing person uploaded the whole 7th season here, so get in there before it’s taken down! So I tentativelyContinue reading “Polymer clay figurine making is a small big pleasure”
Book Review: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Garcia wrote this essay in a series of newspaper articles in Bogota over 30 years ago. He tells the dramatised story of a sailor Luis Alejandro Velasco who sailed on a ship laden with contraband goods from Alabama in the US bound for Columbia. The ship encountered a turmultuous storm which threw all aboard into the sea with devastating consequences.
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