I remember lying on my back in the fields on clear nights as a youth. The Milky way spreading out. Or nights camping in the desert where a series of wakings gets knitted together in my memory and the universe moves, wheeling above me. This is a grand feeling, expansive and free.
The focus can turn, looking from the immensity down to me. Not so grand now. Tiny and insignificant, I flinch, move my mind away grab some mundane.
I had a late afternoon walk around the moot by the Slack’s trig point.
Heavy low cloud and a bit of a breeze.
Autumn is underway, rosehips and hawthorn red.
Blackberries starting to ripening.
Rosebay willowherb and thistles in seed.
The bracken and ferns rusting.
A couple of ravens, one jinxing nicely. I put up a  brace of grouse and heard one go-back-ing. A glimpse of a peregrine.
The rain stayed off and as usual I am delighted, just 15 minutes drive from home in Glasgow.
Yesterday’s tweet from @livedtime, the daily stillness lead to a great video:The innovation of loneliness http://t.co/s1WAfX4fFV
A beautiful video. Of course I recognise lots of these negative factors from my own online life. But I also get some real connections. Thee are made possible by being able to hook up with people who share interests that are not local.
When I started using computers I found a series of interests, professional and personal that were not common locally By being online I could find pals to discus these things.
A lot of things I ‘share’ online are probably not of a great interest to the majority of my, say, twitter followers, but they sometimes do find a target.
The other thing about lonlieness or being alone is that is is sometimes nice:
I’m sorry if I sound arrogant, but I did have something to do with creating this thing. And feel that podcasting is something egalitarian, proletarian, amateur, fun, historic, but not hard.
Dave Winer on podcasting in a comment thread on Do people still use libraries?
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An Alphabet of IndieWeb Building Blocks: Article to Z – Tantek http:/
In this podcast @DaveWiner has a lovely description of what podcasting is to him.
I recently finished a story I’d spent several months obsessing over. When I pitched the piece to my editor, I knew that I’d found a worthy subject, but I couldn’t quite articulate what the story was about. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the words — it’s that I didn’t have an answer yet...
Interesting read on where good ideas come from #serendipity #creativity
Great read along with @cogdog’s http:/
#tds34 How to achieve monkey mind | The Daily Stillness Today you get to find a quiet spot and read this Medium article by Sarah Buttenwieser. A 4 minute read how can you not have 4 minutes to invest in your well being? Well, it may be 10 after you do your task: select from the article and/or add to it and make your very own list on how to achieve monkey mind. You will smile and also remind yourself that you do already know ehow to achieve stillness – do the opposite of one item in your list each day! Tell us what is in your list?
The linked article gave me a good few smiles.
Wake up in the middle of the night, worry about lack of sleep.
