Rowing through the solstice
I can’t remember exactly why I started to look for a rowing boat, or looking for very long before I found one. More vivid is the long, hot drive down to collect it.
Grief at this time of year
Both Hinduism and Buddhism take a longer perspective upon mortality by viewing death not as the final act, but as a necessary step along the way. Beyond heaven and hell, salvation and damnation, this seems one of the more useful contributions from religion: the reassurance that to move on, all things must pass.
Eight limbs of yoga – 6. Dharana – Focus
The previous instalment in this series explored the fifth limb of yoga: introspection (pratyahara), that post compared our mental experience to a stream of loosely connected and often repetitive thoughts. Dharana, the sixth limb, then considers how to deal with that torrent and focus awareness elsewhere.
There’s another Rainbow Gathering
The Rainbow Festival can galvanise one’s faith in humanity and inspire different perspectives. With tickets limited to around three hundred, it’s also small enough to foster relationships and a sense of community.
Amsterdam, Berlin, the Eurostar and Brexit
Toward the end of the second “Lockdown”, the prospect of a month long, half price, first class, European rail pass seemed too good to miss. But for the best part of eighteen months that InterRail flash sale booty awaited activation.
Dieting – more lessons
You want to lose body fat. Your body fat’s maybe at 15%, you want to get it down to 12 0r 10% and the way you do that is by burning more calories than you eat.
Arnold Scwarznegger
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“More human than human” – something about AI
“I think AI will be capable of making you fall in love with it very well.”
Elon Musk
More creativity
he’s made a few of these at Burning Man, this one stands out.
Dieting – lessons learnt
Of course there’s a graph.
Something about boys 