Verizon saga continues… largely, my problems have been sorted… but, just now, I received an “Extender” from Verizon… even though I told them I did not need it… since returning the last one caused all my disconnect problems, I think I will put this one in a closet and forget about it.
Mind, Body, Earth, Community :: Essays On Attention Paid
What I learned from Ms. Federici is that capitalism is an organizing force of enormous consequence. Consequence that is brutal and harmful to the mind, body, earth, and community connections I began this post with. It has rearranged the relationships between men, and women, and the earth, in profoundly destructive ways. It has fragmented the world and its creatures into things that, in their thingness, are maximally exploitable. This includes you and me. Divided, everything and everyone is exploited and utility is the quality everything and everyone must have.
From yesterday…
So, Verizon can disconnect your Fios service with a push of a button, but a technician is needed at the house to reconnect it? This makes no sense to me.
Mind, Body, Earth, Community :: Essays On Attention Paid
For the next few weeks, I periodically ran into her and would ask if things had gotten any better. She would say not really, and I would encourage her to hang in there, these runs of frustration and struggle do, eventually, end. I always wished her a better rest of her day as I walked on.
Mind, Body, Earth, Community :: Essays On Attention Paid
Another analog social media app is my daily early morning walk and photograph practice. Often, they are strictly mind-body-earth affairs. Occasionally, they are community affairs, too. I meet people I know. I see people I don’t know, but know them as regulars on the street. Every so often, I learn their names.
From yesterday…
From a couple of days ago…
I have decided to focus on getting out of the house and going for walks (mind, body, earth, sometimes community) and winding up at local coffee shops, where I can have direct human-to-human contact (definitely community). Even if that contact is superficial banter with a barista whose name I know and who knows mine, it’s better than the social media app stand-ins we are plagued with. Even if I know no one, and talk to no-one, I am in a space alive with people interacting analog fashion. The coffee shops are my analog version of social media apps.
Judgment used to be the foundation of the idea of reasonableness–a concept you may remember, but which we are in danger of losing, if we have not already done so, in a mechanised, bureaucratic society.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist
Acquiring a degree of judgment that can make these elements intelligently cohere is–or used to be–the whole purpose of education. It is why we study the humanities. What history and classics and literature tell us is not to be found in the sciences anywhere. Nowadays we seem to have forgotten this crucial insight, on which the future of our civilisation nonetheless hangs.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist
I am discovering that the best calendar app for me may be Apple’s Reminders. It’s ability to apply a date and time to a reminder renders a simple timeline list of events and proposed actions that adjust to each addition of a new reminder.
Went for an early morning hike with the pack…
From this morning’s walk…
We watched Red, White and Royal Blue last night. The movie is based on the Casey McQuestin novel of the same title. It’s a latterday fairytale with a plot only viable in fairytale land, but, it is amazingly frank about homoerotic male relationship and sex. Highly recommend.
From this morning’s walk…
In the category of Wow! Just, Wow!
August 14, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson(https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-14-2023)
Today, U.S. District Court Judge Kathy Seeley found for the young Montana residents, agreeing that they have “experienced past and ongoing injuries resulting from the State’s failure to consider [greenhouse gas emissions] and climate change, including injuries to their physical and mental health, homes and property, recreational, spiritual, and aesthetic interests, tribal and cultural traditions, economic security, and happiness.”
Unfortunately, by being purely strategic in intent, the left hemisphere makes strategic mistakes, since it remains largely ignorant of the reality on which it relies. As a sophisticated computer would. And very soon, no doubt, will.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist
From this morning’s walk…
Today I deleted all social media apps from my phone. I will use my browser to access the accounts once or twice a day. Any service that doesn’t have a web portal is toast.
Today I tried to sit down and plan the week with my various digital apps. I came to a standstill trying to make them do what I wanted. I was so frustrated! Then I opened my paper journal book and wrote out a list of things I thought needed doing. My frustration disappeared. The week got planned.
This seems important…
August 12, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
In Marion, Kansas, yesterday morning, four local police officers and three sheriff’s deputies raided the office of the _Marion County Record_newspaper; the home of its co-owners, Eric Meyer and his 98 year old mother, Joan Meyer; and the home of Marion vice mayor Ruth Herbel, 80. They seized computers, cell phones, and other equipment. Joan Meyer was unable to eat or sleep after the raid; she collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.
I think of the conspiracy soaked far right… McGilchrist arguing society shows signs of schizophrenia… 📚📖
… the schizophrenic subject appears to occupy extremes simultaneously: both sceptical to the point of paralysis about matters that must be taken for granted if one is to function at all, and yet gullible enough to espouse enormously improbable belief systems that are clearly delusional.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/20ZzSLa
From yesterday and today… 📷
About Habit :: Essays On Attention Paid
… our lives play out through this dance of individual and together habits… we live and love, hate and grieve, in our beautiful lake of habitualness… itself a splash and rippling of a glassy sea of continuity that engulfs every possible dream of our being…