Quotes to Live By – Daily
This daily habit, capturing a piece of morning reading or serendipitous stumbling on wisdom
Six Quotes to Live By
You know when you’re looking for something, and stumble on some scrap of your past that makes you freeze, and snaps you back in time? I this week found a note entitled ‘Quotes to Live By’, marked as ‘last modified’ in the week of my 40th birthday, eight years ago. Thought to share… But first, consider a question: what is the blend of how you are a inspired by or…
Herbie Hancock and Bubbles of Spirit
Strolling down a trail into the magical Stern Grove forest in San Francisco, the crankiness of a long drive dissolved into giddy anticipation. I was just minutes away from seeing a greatest-of-all-time in jazz music. Minutes away from being meters away from the eclectic pianist Herbie Hancock, whose wild arc of jazz piano styles from traditional to funk, electronica and fusion all started seven decades ago in the 1950s. The bass of a warm-up DJ thudded…
Lenses on Language in America, and ‘What Room’?
Hey everybody, What a dramatic week in the US, to put it mildly! As I start to shift from this wonderful year of travels, and the relaxed musings of reflective personal writing in Life Notes, I’m bringing us back to my original aim of sharing a curation of the most interesting things I’ve observed and learnt during the week (yes, still working on brevity!). In weeks to come, you’ll see the content…