I continue to experiment with this newsletter to allow more expression. This week, a comic about a Soft Thing that followed me into my room.
From my notebook
1- “You live in an eternal present. Even the memories you are having are neurons firing in the now.”
2- “Accepting things as they are is not the same as being defeated by them. It is to recognize the situation and respect it. Tailoring thus your actions for desired outcomes. The opposite is railing against it, wishing it didn’t exist and in the disquiet of the mind not seeing what the situation really needs”
3- ”Everything works in progressions and compounding. There are no overnight results in nature. Nature is not shy of starting.”
3 interesting gleanings from the web
1- Came across the work of artist Deborah Osberg who lives off-grid in the mountains of Serra Da Estrela through this small documentary.
I don’t think the future is straightforward, I don’t think we can envision the possibilities that exist in the future. Everything is possible, even the things that we currently think are impossible are not necessarily always going to be impossible. - Deborah Osberg.
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2- Montaigne on a well lived life:
The purpose of life is to explore your own self, to live as much as you can as much as you want and not be fettered with societal expectations, norms and conditionings. Give unto yourself everything that is of interest to you, there is nothing else to life. A life explored is a life well lived. - Montaigne
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3- Toxic Pre-conditions are conditions we put to start or maintain a new activity that we’ve always wanted to do. Oliver Burkeman explores this notion beautifully in this article.
“the tyranny of purpose” – (is) the oppressive idea that the activities with which we fill our days must be leading up to something, to some final and finished state of having arrived at our destination in life, if they’re to be worth doing in the first place. - Oliver Burkeman (on Tiny Experiments)
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Nothing in Particular is a fortnightly newsletter discussing….well, nothing in particular.
Hope you have a great weekend and a lovely fortnight ahead!
I love this.
3- ”Everything works in progressions and compounding. There are no overnight results in nature. Nature is not shy of starting.”