Oliver Burkeman: What if I never change? • Hurry Slowly
Can I make time to listen to this?!
Our current thing is to say, “3,2,1 freeze” and then you have to make a pose.
How could you possibly be patient? Or fun? Or supportive? Or curious? Or attentive… when you’re dead tired?
It’s impossible.
So what exactly are you doing on your phone, scrolling through TikTok or >tweets at 11pm? You should be asleep!
I’m been not using my between 9pm and 7am. It’s been hard honestly but I do feel better for it. I’m 2minutes late! Book and bed now.
Day 78
3, 2, 1 and freeze Single beautiful moments Phone down and heart open
Somehow these photos were taken at 6:45am.
Note for a colleague.
What It Is a book by Lynda Barry
Ok one more to the “I’ll never read it” list. I should make a category.
Note to self: Start using categories.
100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet a book by Pamela Paul
Putting it on a list of books I’ll never read but I would like to.
Day 75
Will hopefully get around to watching Shang-Chi this weekend after it was never released in China. Will see what Lyra thinks…
Time is not given
If we wish, we can make it
We have to make time
Today I was consciously trying to fight the feeling that being constantly busy is the only way to exist as a parent, husband, friend or teacher. As though if I’m not overwhelmed then I’m failing. When, actually, I suspect the opposite is true.
Haiku is mostly words from Daily Dad.
Eddie Kingston Got No Business F***ing Being Here
A wrestler talking about his struggles has me tearing up in the dark of a Wednesday morning.
father, husband, worker bee
father, husband, worker bee
ain’t no time left for me
Super Mario 3D World is considerably easier when I play on my own and not with the kids on co-op.
Also, grass is green, water is wet.
[A Comprehensive Guide to 250+ of Apple Music’s New Mood and Activity Playlists](A Comprehensive Guide to 250+ of Apple Music’s New Mood and Activity Playlists) - Crikey.
Day 58
The guilt is toxic
Never enough, never good
Scalds, poisons everything
Trying to do the best for my family and the kids in my class and also myself feels like an impossible task.
The guilt from feeling like I’m failing both is often too much.
Has anyone used https://boardgamearena.com to play board games online? Any good?
Yumo has just lost self-serving tomato sauce privileges. No single person needs that much tomato sauce.
Also, is it ok to just eat tomato sauce?
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
Source: James Baldwin on Love, the Illusion of Choice, and the Paradox of Freedom – The Marginalian
It’s 7am
Snacks, Switch behind the sofa
At least it’s quiet
