?
Words
are visual? No? Oh I don’t know…
Anyway,
I type this relatively early, as I predict it may be a lengthy post. We’ll see.
I was facing ‘mental anguish’ earlier this week, so I noted on my phone,
focussing on positive factors…
- Life is tough but I have/
and continue hopefully to show you the wonder of being human. Our existence is
something so great. So great that words cannot describe it.
Incredibly
fortunate, I know I am. I currently search for paid employment. I love my
volunteering roles, very much. It helps having passion for the cause. Although
I search, I have learnt (or, had reinforced) and want to preach to everyone
that the most important thing in life is not money, or even ‘love’, but health.
If one does not have the health to do something, one cannot. In a way, this is
something that can be thought of, quite logically. Basic bio-mechanics, maths,
tell us what can happen.
OK,
enough of the deep talk. Music. Below is ‘Atoms For Peace’. Hehehe, ‘deep music’.
‘Different’,
I prefer to refer to it. As a lifelong Radiohead fan, I welcome any art by Thom
Yorke. For me, he constantly lights the pathway of future music…
I bought ‘Amok’ (album released by
artist above), on day of release, Monday, as I knew that I faced no trouble of
getting to the cd shop (I will obey my new years resolution, stated on this
blog). MP3s are the way forward. However, I immediately face dismay as the
whole industry is in a duopoly, seemingly. If anyone knows of an alternative
route of downloading mp3s (other than ITunes or Amazon), can you please email
me?
I
tried. I was out and about earlier in the week, and I made the conscious effort
to smile or wear a happy/content face, even though the weather was very grey,
horrible, and everyone else was showing faces of depressed misery. I must admit
that I tried but failed. Even I, was wearing a glum face after a few hours!
It
was miserable. So, I kept telling myself that ‘everything has an opposite.’ The
only reason we find it depressing, is that it can be so good yet we don’t take
any notice. Hmmm.
An
extract from a very good, thought provoking book I read at the moment.
‘Mastery
of Fate and Your Forces and How to Use Them’ by Christian Larson
Wednesday,
my voluntary work was cancelled, so I had free time. I spent the morning
pondering what could be done. I had an idea. Up to Central London.
I
arrived in Waterloo, and on route to my destination I took this picture (below).
I had grown up with my father working as a town planner for the ‘Corporation of
the City of London’. Sir Christopher Wren’s St Paul’s cathedral was recognised
by me and hopefully a large proportion of everyone, as an iconic piece of design.
I used to think that this was so special, it was comparable to the Eiffel Tower
in Paris (by far, the tallest structure in the city).
I
guess, I was wrong.
The
sheer humungous scale of ‘the Shard’ (right), dwarfs ‘St Paul’s’ (left)
Anyway,
I continued onto my final destination, the home of coffee’, the ‘Bar Italia’,
Soho. A double macchiato was drunk. Proper place, proper coffee.
Damn
good!!
So,
I sat there, enjoying tasty coffee, as I begun to realise that this was not the
area (Soho) to be my usual self and pathetically attempt to flirt/chat up good
looking girls! So, silence.
A
permanent change maybe, we’ll see…
Anyway, another, alternative, view of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square
?
To finalise this week, a couple of photos. One of my Bianchi, showing its current use a piece of beautiful decor in my hall, and a hat stand. My ever-worn hat lives on the handlebars.
My last pictures show some bent plywood, which I moulded for part of my final 'major design project' at Loughborough University.
Eight years ago...
Now...
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