How does your daily engagement with different apps and websites look like?
I’ve been musing on this one for a few days. A few years ago I wrote an AppleScript that would periodically do the F9 show all your windows and dump a screenshot. On Sunday afternoon I dug it out and ran it from just befoe 4pm until 11pm. I pulled these together in a gif.
I am not sure how much this tells me other than I have a lot of windows open most of the time. Luckly it does not show how many browser tab I am using…
take time to enjoy it. Show us in a photo
Well I did a few of those things yesterday, but I don’t think I paid much heed. I had a better chance this afternoon. A walk, a seat beside the loch, a wee bit of stillness.
I have become a bit more aware about how I am skipping by these chances to quickly.
I am finding the daily stillness almost always interesting. I don’t always respond publicly, sometimes I am too busy, sometimes I want to keep my response to myself. I am particularly enjoying the recycling of the exercises.
I am reminded of Jin Shengtan’s list of 33 happy moments, I’ve just found these on tumblr but I read them ia an old secondhand book many years ago.
13.It has been raining for a whole month and I lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to get up. Suddenly I hear a chorus of birds announcing a clear day. Quickly I pull aside the curtain, push open a window and see the beautiful sun shining and glistening and the forest looks like it has had a bath.
Ah, is this not happiness?
from: 33 Happy Moments, 13.
Today, print the article, find a path, walk it and then sit down to enjoy the article after your walk.
The walk round Ardinning today was transformed by the snow. The last time I was here is was damp and boggy. Much better walking today with the ground frozen under the new snow. The odd slippy bit.
The snow brings the attention closer. Shapes are smoothed out and detail emphasised. Sounds are muffled and amplified at the same time. Detail of a nearby hill looms out of the white making it hard to judge the distance. Falling snow seems to reflect the landscape into the sky.
I didn’t print the linked passage, but read it with Reader View which cuts back distraction.
It seems fairly familiar ground to me, I’ve long thought walking as important in lots of ways. I tend toward the countryside and much shorted distances than Gros.
He dislikes an interrupted, uneven rhythm of a city walk. All my walks are interrupted, I stop, stare, snap pictures, examine droppings and dead animals. I also puff and pant uphill so need stops at uneven distances.
I love the interstitial, walking along the canal which is silting and slipping back to the countryside.
The final get up, get out and walk finds no argument here.
#tds142 What does it mean to you to lead a good life? | The Daily Stillness Find a place where you can be alone with your thoughts, what is your answer to this question?
I feel quite uptight watching this video. The answers seem to be around what makes a good life for me. Perhaps it is generational, but I would associate a good life as one in which good was done (that good might just be not doing too much harm).
I was not particularly inspired by these folk. They have been lucky, like me, to have ended up living in the first world, with a tremendous amount of privilege.Â
I am not claiming that I have done any better on living a good life and I am sure in many cases these folk have done great things for other folk, but they define a ‘good life’ in a way that surprised me.Â
 I would have expected the odd mention of the Golden rule.
Do the words tell us anything, I pulled them out of the captions and made a wordle.
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