The never ending stuff continues but I am focused on resilience and remembering that control is what the other is trying to exert. It must be challenging to be a person who can not let anything go. All that stuff rattling around and controlling your every move and never letting you just be. Mind decluttering goes along with house decluttering.
There are several things I liked today. There was a great interview with Bill Henson over at The Design Files. Just when I was beginning to worry that it was like reading unhappy hipsters, she blew me away with this profile. He said:
I’m very interested in unpopular culture. So what I tend to read are
books which have been out of print for years. So I would nominate as one
of my favourite resources second hand bookshops. I think second hand
bookshops are the most interesting bookshops anywhere in the world now,
whether you’re in New York or London, Paris or Melbourne or Sydney.
They’re interesting because they’re almost starting to accidentally
fulfil the role that libraries used to play. Whereas libraries now are
being emasculated – anything that hasn’t been borrowed for more than two
years is taken out, which is an apalling state of affairs and will
sadly keep libraries entirely superficial and fashion prone in future.
But second hand bookshops are filled up to the rafters with all this
stuff which is not necessarily in vogue, so they’re a real treasure
trove.
Second hand music shops that sell vinyl and CDs I find really
interesting too. I like to be able to browse physically in shops –
record shops and book shops. It’s a totally different thing to browsing
online – because you really don’t know what’s going to catch your eye,
whereas online the path people use really does involve a line of thought
beforehand, so the truly unexpected doesn’t occur in the same way as it
does in a physcial shop.
Also, I love his work.
I had a 6am call and my daughter got up without asking and took the dog out for an hour. Unexpected acts of thoughtfulness. Someone else was writing about what a pleasure grown up children are. It's true, they are delightful people.
The youngest is so much happier. She is friends with all the dog owners who congregate on the parkland to the back of our house. They are a mixed crew but whereas I stand on the sidelines shy and self-contained, she knows their histories, their dogs' histories and is their friend. She says "mummy, you just have to ask them about their dogs and they tell you everything". She has always been good at making connections.
Sadly, I am still on borrowed computer without access to photos but the world is looking brighter.
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