Edmund Charles Davis-Quinn
Just watched the very, very fun “Magic Mike XXL”. So much more fun than the more serious first movie. ***1/2
Made me think of other sequels that are better than the original: The Empire Strikes Back one of my favorite movies of all time. Blade 2, Spider-Man 2, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, X-Men 2, The Godfather II, etc.
What are some of your choices?
I did something I haven’t done nearly enough this year get lost in the woods.
Now, I wasn’t far off the trail at Osborndale State Park and it was mainly due to not seeing the trail markers easily but it was still lovely.
There is magic in the woods and you don’t have to go far to find it.
We know that as children. So many adventures can happen in a small wood between some backyards.
At least I hope kids do in our paranoid times.
So don’t forget the wild is out there not far away.
And I don’t always love Connecticut but I do love the access to natural places. It’s one thing we could definitely learn from England from reading Bill Bryson.
Have beautiful paths connecting towns could be wonderful for all sorts of regions.
And go get out there in this lovely early fall.
A wonderful short documentary on Netflix about Carmen Herrera whose art was discovered five decades after it should have when she was around 90.
Sexism makes me very, very sad. That a major contemporary gallery of the 1960s wouldn’t show her work because she was a woman is terrible. It shouldn’t have taken until the 2000s.
We are getting there. But, we still have a long way to go.
Sitting on a stone bench waiting for Pokestops to be ready again.
Walking on a cool night. Fall is in the air.
Jazz is in my ears.
Almost done with John Green’s “Paper Towns”, I wish I didn’t see his TED talk before reading it. Still a fun read.
Tonight reading some of and laughing really, really hard. Tales from the short bus and the bed pan can be absolutely hilarious.
Reading the first two X-Men comics in a first ten compendium someone was throwing away. Hard for me to throw books out, even hard to just donate to the library. Although, I think that’s where “Paper Towns” is going. The X-Men book is going to the neighbor’s 13 year old autistic son.
I like these random posts. Oddly flowing together better with music. Maybe I should try to freelance write. I could use help getting better at rejection.
The sun has left time to swipe the four local Pokestops, pray by the two Buddhas outside in front of the Vietnamese Buddhist temple.
And enjoy a couple days off, I could use some time in the woods.
I do enjoy it. I didn’t expect four extra playoff holes on the PGA Championship today.
But, I was only kinda watching it. I was actually enjoying some of the old Simpsons Halloween special more. And watched a bit of football.
But, I feel like I missed out with not going outside and reading or Pokewalking after work. Sunsets are so early now.
And I haven’t actually played a round since I moved to Connecticut two years ago. My clubs are buried in the closet.
It’s nice to watch sportsball, but it is critically important to enjoy the outdoors too.
So it goes…
I’m watching a Highwayman concert from 1990 on PBS. Willie Nelson is now 89 and still making music with everyone. Waylon Jennings passed away recently with his last album with Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson had memory loss which may be getting better after Lyme disease treatment.http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/kris-kristofferson-an-outlaw-at-80-20160606
And of course Johnny Cash went with Rick Rubin into a studio and pared down his sound with the six amazing American Recording albums and a unplugged duet with Willie Nelson that made him my favorite musician of all time. With this Highwaymen show it’s greatest hits. With the American Recordings albums it’s far, far deeper. Not just songs he had played for decades and memorized but songs he could really feel. The pauses and the honesty really matter from “Hurt”, to “The First Time Ever I Saw Her Face” to “Personal Jesus”, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Satisfied Mind.”
May we all try to live more of our personal genius.
I just read Andrew Sullivan’s excellent New York magazine piece about needing to disengage from the internet.
He spent ten days in silent mediation, it sounds like at the Vipsanna meditation centers I have been considering for years
I really think these strange things called smartphones talk to you and want to be used. And you see people with them on all over the place. I seem to use them the most going outside to walk and play Pokemon Go. Although, strangely since my walk goes by a Vietnamese Buddhist temple and I’m waiting for the buzz of a Pokemon, I find that it’s usually very meditative. As I walk with my pajamas on.
It is incredibly easy to get lost on the Internet and Facebook and much less so Twitter for me of late. And these are awfully expensive things.
I am really looking forward to being offline completely and doing some spiritual work at Twilight Convening in two weeks. And with being sick the last few days I have been dreaming a lot more.
And I have been reading a lot more since getting some reading glasses and that has been wonderful too. Especially dreaming outside.
Do remember there is an airplane mode and even an off button on your phone. Sometimes they really are best as bricks. And to just enjoy the outdoors or your inner spaces.