The ending paragraph might matter most

Berkeley, Monday, November 22, 2021 5:52 AM

I will invest ten minutes for today on writing a post in here. However, I just interrupted myself to actually make the bed, do a prayer. I just finished a book. There were two pages to finish, and before start writing I made progress a couple of pages with the book I am currently reading. A River Lost by Blaine Harden.

Next on my list is a book, I received as a gift I think about three weeks ago, from someone from California, titled Where I was from by Joan Didion.

I would stop receiving the daily newspapers, four newspapers. I can’t keep up with them, despite I mainly read the Op-Ed that I am interested on. It creates a chaos of disorganzation.

I might have learned though good and bad habits from locals in the process, or perhaps just by talking with people. I have started to watched more movies now and then, and to stream sitcoms as well now and there. A habit I want to cut, despite there are interesting things, it disconnects me from reality, makes inactive. Yet, I usually go into the details about the script and so on. Recently, I started watching The Shrink of Next Door. And I was curious about some scenes Parks and Recreation, one of my favorites, which I binge watched over some time a couple of months ago. I might have discovered it when I got a Peacock subscription for watching the tour of France. I am not sure if I watched it earlier.

One thing is for sure, paid motion records are way better than anything you can find in Youtube. The reason is one is able to analyze the scene, there is often good quality of production, rather than just a quick laugh for a nice silly video one check of youtube, or what I do often checking highlights from sports. And a sequence of unorganized clicks where time loses its importance. It is indeed a terrible thing. That is why still live performance are a very good thing, despite is not possible to bring everything to the theater, so motion recordings from a creation transferred first from a couple of brains to the paper, embodied by some characters, and transmitted to a audience is indeed a beautiful art.

Recently I watched Rush, a story of Nick Lauda and James Hunt, it started from a conversation. So I went I checked the entire movie. The first time I watched I fast forwarded many parts, which use to be a defect of me, but it is better to watch the full thing to provide an opinion. I also watched recently a Man for all seasons, based on an interview recommendation from Prof. Peter Kreeft. Still there is some interesting stuff one can find only on You Tube, such as good intervews.

At some point I need to go to watch King Richard, and to visit Van Gogh exhibition.

Are there regrets in here? It doesn’t sound that much, though time management is definitely often one.

I saw squares with a X in prior posts, at some time, I will try to fix that.

I need to present something in two hours. So now better go back to the data analysis. This might be sometimes a way to release some tension. I would rather organize my notes, and write relevant and perhaps irrelevant books and articles. I assume the audience decides that. A question would be why? Why to write and not just do business, or other kind of work? Perhaps I’ve committed to? Might be because I some times I have to, and many others I like to. Or might because it can be a skill which can keep me fresh with a clear mind, a kind of light carrying feeling, despite my body might have actually keep gaining weight. You teach me about responsibilities.