I took a drive down to my folks this morning and ran down the valley to Rottingdean and the sea, sparkling in the chilly sun. I had already got the stitch chasing down another runner on the way down the hill and had all but run out of puff, but since it’s only a couple [...]
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Joe Jaworski, son of the lawyer who indicted Nixon, suggests that by opening ourselves to the possibilities in the world around us and responding to the subtle signs we then see, we can induce predictable miracles to happen around us. That’s how I felt this week. Having written about the power of smiling and [...] I’ve been thinking. Sure, we are all thinking about something from moment to moment, but I wonder how many people sit down to deliberately think about one thing? In fact, since I sold out of my marketing business in 2007 and have been thinking in a more focused way about thinking, I’ve observed that [...] I was humbled that, at Christmas, my folks thanked me for my psychological support during last year. I find it interesting that that despite being a highly evolved species, it is often the simple stuff that makes a difference to how we think and how we feel. Take smiling for example. It may be [...] Once again I tootled off to my parents house for my run, although having got absorbed in re-reading David Eagleman’s book Incognito, the Secret Lives of the Brain this morning, I was even later in starting out than last week. Eagleman writes beautifully: ‘Your consciousness is like a tiny stowaway on a transatlantic steamship, taking credit [...] After a fun-packed day of sculpting and Scouting yesterday, the alarm this morning was an unwelcome intrusion… especially as it was still dark. I even fell asleep again on a chair in the space between putting the coffee-pot on and it boiling! But it was all for a good cause as I was meeting Mark at 8am [...] At the point that I met Mark this morning at 8am at Jack & Jill I was feeling a little jaded. Kim and I had given Karen & Fergus a lift back to East London from an interesting dinner in North London and then driven back to Sussex to arrive very slightly after 3am. [...] I can say unequivocally that I did not want to run, such that I sat in the sun drinking coffee and avoiding it for a couple of hours this morning. The excuses that I offered myself included a stiff back from an uncomfortable night bivouacking Thursday, exacerbated by bending over a craft table mounting & framing ten [...] Three of us ran off into the gathering darkness last night and re-emerged this morning, slightly damper and not so very refreshed from a questionable night’s sleep! We gathered at Dai’s place in Patcham for a weigh-in last night with both Daren’s pack and mine showing 7.8kg. Dai’s was 1kg lighter, but then he’s not [...] The run this morning was a repeat of last week, running to the Beacon & back with my 10lb+ pack. The pack seemed quite a bit heavier as I started out and whilst it might have had a couple of additional things in it, I think it was just me finding it hard to get [...] |
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