(as an antidote to the long posts)
- I find I get inordinately offended if anyone implicitly questions my honesty and honour.
- I inadvertently ate some fresh chillis at lunch. Now I am all spacey and concentrating is a particular challenge, but it also feels like I am incredibly focussed and skillful. It’s a very strange intolerance that I have.
- I just found a tiny muscle under my jaw that is tight on the left hand side, but not the right. Evidence that my back/neck issues are also jaw related, something most practictioners have never picked up on.
- Reading the free papers available at train stations makes me depressed. Reading WIRED magazine, or a proper broadsheet paper does not.
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Re #4:
I have made myself stop reading “Who”, Cleo, Cosmo, etc when I go to cafes, wait for takeaways and so on. It always looks shiny and colourful, but I’ve come to realise that I always walk away feeling dirty and down about myself.
My new rule: Newspapers are fine, gardening magazines are great, otherwise no touchy!
By: Bec Plumbe on 09/11/2009
at 11:42 pm
Absolutely. About a week ago I realised that I was doing something here, that I would refuse to do at home, because everyone else was and it was convenient. There is no way I’d read the Metro on a daily basis in Sydney, because I know how lightweight and trash it is, and yet I was relying on it here for my daily dose of news. Stoopid
Those lower end ‘trashy’ women’s magazines are also in that category. Guaranteed in some way to make me feel depressed and frustrated and sad, and they are completely against my values.
On the other hand, loving WIRED magazine, it’s like the fun pub conversations I enjoy in print form. My next fun research topic: “design thinking”, actually you might find that idea interesting as well, look for work by a company called IDEO. This article was the starting point: http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/12/features/reinventing-british-manners,-the-post-it-way.aspx
My new rule: I’ll skim read the metro if I’ve nothing else, but any article that starts to talk about death or rape or abuse I will skip.
By: Karinne on 10/11/2009
at 2:04 pm
“I find I get inordinately offended if anyone implicitly questions my honesty and honour.”
This. I actually left a site earlier this year for that express reason. Integrity and honesty is a BIG thing to me, and while all humans do have slight revisionist tendencies, I really still feel (more than half a year on) that I was treated extremely poorly in a matter. So here I stand with my patched up shreds… but for the greater self-good.
By: Lillith on 10/11/2009
at 7:51 pm