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This forlorn little cemetery statue stopped me in my tracks recently. It struck me as the perfect metaphor for how I feel lately. Completely buried in a never-ending avalanche of bad news. I am a news junkie at heart, but even I've had to limit my exposure in an often futile effort to maintain mental wellness. The delayed outcome of the presidential election, coupled with the annoying and unnecessary delay in transition, have only served to punctuate an already awful year. And meanwhile the pandemic rages on. I was thinking the other day just how conditioned I've become to a daily onslaught of bad news. I recall the early days of the pandemic and the anxiety attacks that followed even a quick stop at a grocery store. Im way past that point now. Difficult to even remember a time before it all began. Going into stores without a mask; embracing people; shaking hands. Even family gatherings, all gone. Everything has changed this year, for better or worse. I feel oddly detached from the approaching holidays. The Covid format threatens to suck most of the joy right out of the season. I'm not quite as downbeat as this all sounds. I continue to find ways to relieve the stress by staying active and being creative. Can't help but wonder if artwork developed during the pandemic might someday be regarded as a unique genre. I'm not talking about photos of people wearing masks. Rather the subconscious impact on our worldview that emerges when we create. No doubt the pandemic has influenced us all, perhaps in ways that are yet to be recognized.
18th July 2017:
Rufus: "Izzy warned me last night that Mum was pointing a new picture making thing at anything and everything, but at us too.
She took loads of pictures of me inside, but there was something wrong with all of them, so she took me outside and pointed that new thing at me again.
There are limits and I wasn't going to look at her whatever she said, but I think I look as good in profile as I do any other way.
Just hope Mum stops pointing that new thing at us for a bit now."
Me: I won't be doing it all the time now Rufie, promise."
PS: Will catch up with you all tomorrow. Graham had a fall earlier and I'm keeping an ear out for him, in case he needs help. :0(
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This was yesterday morning. Today, -1C and 70km winds.
Not impressed. What kind of crappy year are we having anyway?
Looks like black and white but not... just super drab.
I was on the way back to the car, it was getting dark quickly, I had packed my tripod and camera away, (which I do not usually do) and I was presented with this! I nearly didn’t make the effort, I nearly thought, I can’t be bothered, but something told me to. Anyway, I’m glad I did, because this composition was interesting, mainly due to the depth and blocks of colour in the distant trees. Anyway, there are problems with the composition, but I am going to accept the imperfections here and just accept its complex nonconformism.
1st November 2018:
Rufus: "I have tried avoiding having my photo taken for ages. When Mum points her picture making thing at me, I just give myself a good scratch and she then can't take a picture. Or I go and hide on the floor on her side of the bed, where she can't get me - hehe!!
But today she was more determined than usual. So when I'd been out for my after tea walk and had snuggled up on the bed for some piece and quiet, she came in and pointed the picture making thing at me again. I gave up and let her take some photos.
After all, I'm far more handsome than Izzy, she's just pretty."
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Be flickr. Or a bit daft, whichever comes first :~)
Explore #176 on 22/11/08
Textures from ghostbones
(spot the blatant flouting of Scrabble rules!!!)
Got intentionally lost in some woods yesterday just as it was getting dark. Quite an interesting experience really, especially in the fog. I kind of knew I was ok, as I had my phone with a map of the woods and I knew the rough direction I was taking, but I wanted to see if I would become disoriented and go around in circles. Well I was disorientated, but by chance, I ended up where I was heading in the end, but it was interesting to see how my mental map was fooled. I did feel a little uneasy, but I somewhat like that, as it shows me I still respected the environment I was in. anyway this is an image is of the woods that reflects how I felt (o:
I took some cheeky pics of this stand off- ish Alpaca today. ... all the other residents were keen to have some of the munchy nuggets from my brown paper bag. This one must have been fedup with the food we were offering and was quite content to stand and stare while chewing. .... nothing... lol!
A little bit of HDR added to enhance colour and textures on an overcast day.
😊 Happy Sliders Sunday everyone!😊
I know this was taken a few days ago but it's just like the second shot at the moment....again....and has been rather a lot recently :-(
I didn't do any drawing yesterday as work took over my day ( and it wasn't a good one!), but this cat is from Wednesday.
Did you clap for the carers last night at 8? JJ and I were on the doorstep again.
bic et pastel blanc sur papier - 25 x 35 cm
En anglais, ça pourrait donner quelque chose comme "I am fed up with girls"...
This post was due to go up in May but then a bunch of stuff just happened (as it does) - all good stuff though like Anime Expo and a bunch of new license deals with Bandai Visual, Sunrise and more. Much has changed since we last had a look at Desk Diary - not just layout of the office, shop and home but also the equipment that I use which has in turn changed my workflow.
Running the business continues to be a challenge which I want to talk more about in depth - I think its going to be a long post as it will focus on helping other bosses out there who will be having similar challenges in terms of managing people, inventory, time, office logistics, workflows, marketing, profit & loss, trying to grow the business and more on top of the competition playing dirty.
I spend a lot of my time thinking - processing events that have happened and am constantly trying to seek new ideas on how to grow the business and optimise workflows for the current one.
Whenever I sit down and try to write something - because I've got so many ideas I want to share - I end up spending hours on a single section which I then end up copy and pasting into a text file to split off into another post because its just too long - this is another reason for the lack of Desk Diaries and A Week in Tokyo because they contain sections of my life.
Today I'm just going to run through the changes of late starting with my desk which is a reflection of a life project that I've been focusing on - "un-stuffocation" or "Danshari" (pronounced Dan - Shar - Ree and written as 断捨離) in Japanese.
Over the years, I've accumilated many things - some of it still useful - and some of it not so useful but I find that I'm having to find time to organise and clean possessions even though I don't use them.
Remember that the speed of time is relative to how long you have been alive - if you are 2 years old then 1 year will feel like half a life time where as if you are 45 years old (like me) then 1 year is just 1/45th of a lifetime which passes without you even noticing it.
Given that time is running out, I need to make sure that the rest of the time I have is spent on the important stuff - not on the stuff that won't make a difference in the remainder of my life.
This is another subject that I want to spend more time to talk about but for today I will just leave you with a thought.
I was tidying up the office one day and after getting fedup of doing the same thing over and over again, I said to myself - "none of this (stuff that I dont really need) is going to make a difference when I'm dead" and then made the decision to take a leap out of another comfort zone that I crawled into and started to throw or give away stuff that I knew was just using up precious time. Stuff needs places for them to be kept in. Stuff needs to be dusted down unless you like that Halloween cobweb look n feel - all this requires your time but is it worth it for stuff that you dont really need?
Owning more stuff means that it will take longer to find the other stuff that you really need - which is fine if you feel you have the time.
Getting rid of stuff however is a big sacrifice but once you realise that the reluctance to throw stuff out is related to the Comfort Zone then you will start to realise how holding on to stuff prevents you from moving forward. The "well I may need this someday" is related to self preservation that is built into our DNA - and in the society that we live in today that means that you don't feel like getting rid of something because you may need to pay for it again - pay with money that we need for self preservation - pay with your hard earned money.
But out of all the stuff that I've thrown out - there only has been 2 cases where I had to buy that item again - one was an iPhone holder (which fits on a tripod) and some cable - both of these items cost a couple of thousand yen but through the excersise of proactively throwing stuff out, I've probably saved gabillions of yen in terms of my time which I have been able to put to use by spending it on business deals, health and family - or I could have been spending my time (I repeat) to look for stuff, store stuff, clean stuff.
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...but then again, something must be making all the noises out there.
there is a song we know about people who build themselves into a hidey hole. would you like to hear it?
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"if we're going to keep that Steinbeck chappie happy, one of us (and I mean you) is going to have to be the mouse."
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I did get out and took some photos, but even the one I had thought was OK for today didn't really say much to me. So once Rufus had come home from his afternoon prom and made himself comfy I took a quick photo of him.
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I know a way, it's coming back to you
I know you know a way, it's coming back to you
all away, back in the way
better than back in the way
I know a way, it's coming back to you
I know you know a way, it's coming back to you
were just slippin' away
slippin' away
oh, you know it's coming back to you
and when you go
and when you go
when you go away
I'd know, you know
I know you know
I know you'd know the way
Music&Lyrics by rodny gold
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