📚 Ended up reading Second Variety, a short story by Philip K. Dick, to dip my toe into his work. A Scanner Darkly is up next.
That feeling when good ideas are percolating and I am in a way carried by their energy. It’s almost effortless to play with them and see where they lead.
Walking today in Lynn Canyon with Roy. No photos, only a wonderful and deep conversation that kept us out there for over 3 hours.
He mentioned Minority Report, which I must have seen when it first came out (2002). I’m checking it out now and learning about Philip K. Dick.
Reading his Wikipedia page now and curious to check out his writing. So many familiar titles (books Matthew read when we were younger).
🎥 We watched Pixar’s new movie “Soul” last night using the Disney+ GroupWatch feature with Mom, Dad and Will. What a beautiful movie.
“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
— William James
Our Apple One subscription came with Apple Arcade. We found Crossy Road Castle and put in some good time with it over the past few days!
Views at Rice Lake
Drive-by porchetta, torched by Annabel and Johnson 🤤
🎥 Had fun turning this moment into another short video 🎥
Enjoying Endel, both at home and on the go using their Apple Watch app. This is their manifesto.
Snowy walk through Rice Lake.
Can we get to the root of emptiness, self-doubt, feeling trapped, suffering, struggle? If we understood these things would our experience of them be transformed?
Lying in bed, listening to the new album “some kind of peace” by Ólafur Arnolds, and just breathing.
Family gatherings look a little different these days…
Snowy BCMC hike.
Beautiful ~12KM hike up the Kennedy Falls Trail for Sandie’s birthday today.
Having fun during the weekly grocery shop.
FujiFilm X100T vs Sony ZV-1
“I don’t know if on your walks you have noticed a long, narrow pool beside the river. Some fishermen must have dug it, and it is not connected with the river. The river is flowing steadily, deep and wide, but this pool is heavy with scum because it is not connected with the life of the river, and there are no fish in it. It is a stagnant pool, and the deep river, full of life and vitality, flows swiftly along.
Now, don’t you think human beings are like that? They dig a little pool for themselves away from the swift current of life, and in that little pool they stagnate, die; and this stagnation, this decay we call existence. That is, we all want a state of permanency; we want certain desires to last for ever, we want pleasures to have no end. We dig a little hole and barricade ourselves in it with our families, with our ambitions, our cultures, our fears, our gods, our various forms of worship, and there we die, letting life go by—that life which is impermanent, constantly changing, which is so swift, which has such enormous depths, such extraordinary vitality and beauty.”
— J. Krishnamurti
“Our education, our environment, our whole culture insists that we must become something. Our philosophies, our religions and sacred books all say the same thing.
But now I see that the very process of becoming something implies envy, which means that I am not satisfied with being what I am; and I want to understand what I am, I want to find out why I am always comparing myself with another, trying to become something; and in understanding what I am there is no need for discipline.
In the process of that understanding, integration comes into being. The contradiction in me yields to the understanding of myself, and this in turn brings an action which is integral, whole.”
— J. Krishnamurti
Photos from my walk up the east side of Mosquito Creek with the new Sony ZV-1.
