What I watched: We’ve been streaming All Creatures Great and Small, based on the books by James Herriot (James Alfred Wight). Keitel and I need to take breaks from it now and again, because of the ratio of animal deaths to animal successes. (Not great pre-penicillin.) He is a cottage industry these days.
What I read: I’ve become a very lazy reader, all kindle fluff, all the time. But I currently have two actual hardback books. A dear friend gave me Chani Nicholas’s You Were Born For This, Astrology For Radical Self-Acceptance. I view astrology as a secular way to pretend there is a method to the chaos of life. I like Feng Shui for the same reason. This book is in-depth, and you need to know your birth date and time for it to work; you can get your chart (free) from her website. The other book is The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board, by Keith J. Cunningham. A business acquaintance raved about it, but to be honest, I have only scanned the table of contents. Reading it feels like work.
What I listened to: Trace Mountains, Lost in The Country, from Lame-O Records. Lame-O began in 2012 to document the Philadelphia-area indie and punk scene.
awww piggies!
anyhoo..what ive watched…not a lot actually.. currently slowly watching the asterisk wars on netflix..anime series.. bit fanservicey but its okay so far.. im not sure i’d recommend it.. but its an easy thing for me to watch and get an occasional giggle out of before bed time when i dont want to brain
reading..still nothing bookwise.. reading the news constantly coz i hate my mental health apparently
aaaand listening hmmm…ill take a pick
I hear that regarding the news. We have been limiting our news to the PBS news hour and this site’s DOT. The news hour ends with a short eulogy to people who have died from the virus. It makes me cry.
Watching: Homeland Season 8. One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about this show is that even after all this time they always managed to avoid making the show stupid. You’d think that wouldn’t be difficult, but I have way too many years of TV watching under my belt to think otherwise.
Reading: The Spirituality of Imperfection by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketchum. They use stories from ancient and modern times to demonstrate that spiritual growth (in whatever form it takes in a person) is rooted in the recognition that striving for perfection is both futile and ill-conceived.
Listening: Ruthie Foster did a killer cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.”
That’s amazing, love her!
nice tune
I love the James Herriot novels but I can see where it might require some breaks. Have you watched The Durrells? It’s sweet, has lots of animals but a lot less animal death.
I like the Trace Mountain song, nice morning listen.
I’m watching Dead To Me – it’s so sad and dark, probably not the best choice right now.
I just started the 3rd Witcher novel, I’m not super interested in it but my daughter wants me to them, the things we do for the people we love.
Listening to ~~~ by Ana Roxanne, originally released to little notice in 2015 and re released last year by Leaving Records.
Thank you, will give the Durrells a try!
I’m reading this:
https://www.amazon.com/New-IPA-Scientific-Guide-Flavor/dp/B081H97SGF/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=hops&qid=1589649780&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-7
Each chapter takes forever because it is way over my head scientifically but great info.
Listening to:
The comment re perfection – the older I get the more i see beauty in imperfection. Sort of the Japansese Kintsugi of the human condition.
…I don’t know if it’s apocryphal or a real thing but I remember coming across the idea that in some circumstances (I feel like Persian rugs might have been one & Japanese ceramics another) there was a tradition of introducing deliberate flaws in a piece as a tacit acknowledgement that however skillful or experienced the craftsman perfection was unattainable?
…arguably it could be seen as more arrogant than striving for a mark you know you’ll miss but I guess it depends on how you come at the idea & I kind of liked it for the most part
…the ostentatious repair work stuff is pretty amazing, either way
The way I understood it was as an acknowlegement of the fact that only God can achieve perfection. I really like it in that context.
I started watching Modern Family because it showed up on Netflix.
Admit that it stings once in a while as it reminds me that I’m a middle aged single male with no kids (and probably won’t have any.) Not rage inducing like the Big Bang Theory because Sheldon Cooper is a massive inconsiderate jerk who reminded me of an awful housemate.
Reading a lot of articles on pandemics. Gee, I wonder why?
I am kind of embarassed to admit that I am watching Columbo and reading pulp fiction from somewhere around 1925. It’s working for me, though, so yay!!!
I like Columbo.