No hug is too long. No doppio espresso is too dense. No beach is too empty. No new baby is too cute. No moon is too full. No love-note is too long. No week-end is too appreciated.
No, 7 - Nicholas Bate
No hug is too long. No doppio espresso is too dense. No beach is too empty. No new baby is too cute. No moon is too full. No love-note is too long. No week-end is too appreciated.
No, 7 - Nicholas Bate
I don’t often get solitude. Was grateful for the solitude of working out in the gym on my own today. Very much cleared my head and made me realise how much a negative effect on my mental health alcohol has. I’ve had a few drinks the last two nights and just don’t feel great.
Got a notification because my heart rate dropped below 40 to 39 bpm 4 times last night. Hoping it’s the exercise…
“I hold my children, and I hold my wife, and I know that they will die. And I know that it could happen before I die. So I know that our time together is finite. It will end. And so I appreciate them so much more. I marvel at the fact that these particular collections of cells coalesced around these souls for a temporary period, and I’m so lucky to get to be here at the same time as the little collection of cells and bones and nostril hairs. And so I really make the most of it in a way I didn’t before. And I wish that that skill didn’t come from something so painful. But it did. That was the price tag for me to receive that gift. And now I have it, and I appreciate it.”
Rob Delaney was on Marc Maron’s podcast where he shared how his perspective changed following his son Henry’s death.
Students who are able to acquire a lot of general academic knowledge—often those with highly educated parents—typically get the highest scores on reading comprehension tests.
New Study Suggests Standardized Reading Tests Miss a Lot of Learning
Love this from the students in our class.
Guys, length isn’t everything when it comes to film-making - Wendy Ide - The Guardian
Felt this in Wakanda forever. Does it need to be that long?
Sunday brunch… coffee and 碗杂面
Lirdle Like Wordle, but with one lie per answer. Via Metafilter
Don’t play this. It’s horrible. I love it.
Creative insight of any type — be it business strategy, an ad campaign, or computer code — requires cognitive space to emerge. It doesn’t take much daily activity before original thought is starved of the neuronal nutriments required to grow.
I read this after writing this last night…
Today and tomorrow we have foundation wide PD. Some keynotes and smaller presentations and workshops. To be sure some of it is good and worthwhile but it feels like lots of isn’t. That, in theory, it’s an amazing idea but I just don’t feel it works in practice. Maybe I’m the problem?
But…
In amongst the grumbling there’s always these moments. Whereby, having nothing else to do, people end up talking to each other. Sure, some of it isn’t about work but inevitably it comes back to the thing we have in common.
And the talk is golden.
We have the discussions we wish we could have every day but that we don’t have the time to, because we’re always busy with stuff. And if we go to speak to someone it’s because of something.
We never, just chat.
Ain’t got the time for that.
And we’re poorer for it.
“You got an organ going there, no wonder the sound has so much… Body.”
Going in, both L and I know nothing about it. I’m aware of the game but don’t know details.
Blossom
I don’t cross the road
For a moment, I’m in control
As I wait awhile
Kids and worry, name a better combo!
Not eating enough!
Tonight though, it was like they’d not eaten for a week!
Then we finished with pancakes for Shrove Tuesday.
Seems like Substack doesn’t like Kill The Newsletter anymore. Are there alternatives? I much prefer reading newletters in NetNewsWire.
Perhaps the amusement park includes as many rides as you like, even if you’re feeling sick or have had quite enough for today.
The thing about included is that it’s free. But the other thing is that you can say no. But it’s included… | Seth’s Blog
Hotel breakfast, or any buffet too.
Also in a similar vein, food the kids don’t eat… I don’t need to eat it, but I frequently do.
That ending!
Finished reading: Golden Son (Red Rising Series Book 2) by Pierce Brown 📚
noun
the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
I don’t feel like I’m patient.
But I think that’s because my patience is constantly being challenged. As a teacher and parent of small child sometimes my whole life feels like it’s, at its core, a test of my patience.
And of course, I would say that I fail.
Constantly.
Over and over again.
With my children, with student’s and silently with adults.
I never feel like I never really, properly, recover. For the simple reason that I don’t have the time to. I start running again before I’ve properly recovered my breath.
I exercise, regularly, am pretty good about sleeping and mostly eat ok. These are the things that are sacred. First I make sure I do these things.
And so, I feel like I constantly lose my patience and I beat myself up about and say,
“ I will do better.”
But I can’t because I don’t recover properly before I start again.
And again, and again…
King Doggy the Third!
His father lost in the Aegean and his grandfather lost around Hainan.
Long live the King!
Less consuming, more creating. Doesn’t matter what it is, doesn’t matter if it’s bad - Hacker News
via Critter
Like this photo Elise took.
