What’s on your mind?

[kazmac]

What’s on my mind?

Lots of things.

Just grateful about many things including work, home, mom, and rebounding quickly from an arthritic attack that hung around for days.

Not grateful for my indecisiveness regarding computers. Apple has spoiled me with nice designs, solid builds and customer service/support. Trying to find both in PC land is ...tricky. I will find it though.

And -no- buying iMacs or any computer has nothing to do with sexual preferences or not. That’s almost as silly as ‘Does this color phone make me look feminine’ (No!)

Eyesight. Born almost Mr.Magoo-like myopic, and in the last five years or so I take my glasses off to read or draw (but still hold everything very close).

I have been telling the people I am close to I care about them.

And making sure I laugh with mom.

Always glad to read good things in this thread.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

What’s on my mind?

Lots of things.

Just grateful about many things including work, home, mom, and rebounding quickly from an arthritic attack that hung around for days.

Not grateful for my indecisiveness regarding computers. Apple has spoiled me with nice designs, solid builds and customer service/support. Trying to find both in PC land is ...tricky. I will find it though.

And -no- buying iMacs or any computer has nothing to do with sexual preferences or not. That’s almost as silly as ‘Does this color phone make me look feminine’ (No!)

Eyesight. Born almost Mr.Magoo-like myopic, and the in last five years or so I take my glasses off to read or draw (but still hold everything very close).

I have been telling the people I am close to I care about them.

And making sure I laugh with mom.

Always glad to read good things in this thread.

Laughing with your mother is one of the most important things to be able to do, and one that you will look back on in years to come.

 

[kazmac]

Laughing with your mother is one of the most important things to be able to do, and one that you will look back on in years to come.

We’ve always laughed and shared our warped sense of humor. I do everything I can to make mom, me and my older sisters laugh because we all need that laughter badly even more now.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

We’ve always laughed and shared our warped sense of humor. I do everything I can to make mom, me and my older sisters laugh because we all need that laughter badly even more now.

I know exactly what you mean.

But, that laughter with your mom is treasured (and shared) now and will be remembered with gratitude and warmth (and smiles) in the future.

 

[Clix Pix]

Another here who has fond, wonderful memories of laughing with my mother, talking with her on so many subjects and always knowing that when I had a problem or a concern about anything that she was always there to talk with me about it, reassure me, offer suggestions, etc. I treasure the time that I had with my mother -- and am especially thankful that I was able to be with her for the last several months of her life.

 

[arkitect]

What's on my mind?

Wondering who really is listening in on everything we type and speak and do…

Yesterday I joked in a post here on MacRumours about the "Illuminati"… Post link.

This morning I receive a private message on Instagram, yup, you guessed it! Inviting me to join the Illustrious Brotherhood of the Illuminati…

Good grief.

Sometimes I get the feeling I live in a world treacle thick in spam, and there is no way to disentangle ourselves.
I suppose I can expect a message on Twitter later on.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

What's on my mind?

Wondering who really is listening in on everything we type and speak and do…

Yesterday I joked in a post here on MacRumours about the "Illuminati"… Post link.

This morning I receive a private message on Instagram, yup, you guessed it! Inviting me to join the Illustrious Brotherhood of the Illuminati…

Good grief.

Sometimes I get the feeling I live in a world treacle thick in spam, and there is no way to disentangle ourselves.
I suppose I can expect a message on Twitter later on.

Good grief.

Some people seriously seem to have little to do with their time (or, have fallen too far and deeply into a rabbit hole of their own obsessions and paranoia).

 

[Lioness~]

@arkitect Spam might work on the mighty force of synchronicity too

Myself, I was thinking on another aspect of synchronicity in fact myself today.

As we haven’t had an authorized Ashtanga teacher living in my city before my teacher moved here, or moved back to her hometown after living abroad a long time, in fact.
So the Ashtanga community here has been and still is what it is.

The owner of the studio where I’ve been practice with my teacher has not started to let her have Mysore classes yet, because she thinks that there won’t be enough people to attend them. So there’s only led classes, and I want to move on into Mysore practice now.
My teacher is teaching Mysore classes on some of the other studios that have Mysore classes on their agenda.
Thing is that I have been in contact with most of the Ashtanga community here, without not very good experience. With emphasis on the unauthorized teachers. They are simply not accurate, good enough, and definitely not authorized to teach it.
So now I have processed my bad unauthorized experiences with my teacher so I can attend her Mysore classes on a studio where unauthorized teachers also teach. That is not the fact on the studio where I have a membership.
That’s why I joined that studio I did, plus it’s closer to where I live.

But now I have a membership on a place that don’t offer what I need and want to practice.
After all it’s about to expand her Ashtanga teaching in the city, so the light side of the Ashtanga can grow here, which I love.
Ah well, and hope that energy will expand to the studio where I’m member sooner that way. I mean she will have Mysore classes there too, but it just takes time.

Synchronicity in general, and the dark and light side of things, particular of Ashtanga is on my mind today

 

[Scepticalscribe]

A word that has crept into use in "cultural fashion" is "declutter".

In general, it is meant physically, but I am also speculating about how valid this is as a concept in the human dimension.

 

[arkitect]

A word that has crept into use in "cultural fashion" is "declutter".

In general, it is meant physically, but I am also speculating about how valid this is as a concept in the human dimension.

Well apparently charity shops (thrift stores for the US readers) are the real benefactors of the Marie Kondo craze. People go into a paroxysm of decluttering and give everything away… sit in their newly emptied rooms and then promptly start to refill them with new junk. And in most cases, junk it is.

Myself, I am too much of a gatherer of pleasing things to ever live in a decluttered home.
I live by the William Morris rule: "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
And since I like beautiful things, I am cluttered!

Now a decluttered mind? Hmmmmm. That is a work in progress… a thing devoutly to be wished for.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Well apparently charity shops (thrift stores for the US readers) are the real benefactors of the Marie Kondo craze. People go into a paroxysm of decluttering and give everything away… sit in their newly emptied rooms and then promptly start to refill them with new junk. And in most cases, junk it is.

Myself, I am too much of a gatherer of pleasing things to ever live in a decluttered home.
I live by the William Morris rule: "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
And since I like beautiful things, I am cluttered!

Now a decluttered mind? Hmmmmm. That is a work in progress… a thing devoutly to be wished for.

I like - nay, love - beautiful and pleasing things, too, and have far too much of what is described as "clutter"; but some of it is beautiful clutter - two silver filigreed Art Nouveau decanters (1906 date) - exquisite, Waterford crystal (Lismore pattern) glassware, gorgeous lamps - I love the study of and play of light, in art, photography, pictorial composition, - so, yes, I understand what you are saying.

But, in this sense, my comment (question? observation?) was more rhetorical.

With the passing of my mother, the notion of decluttering offers some (perhaps crude) appeal if applied to some of the people in my life.

 

[arkitect]

With the passing of my mother, the notion of decluttering offers some (perhaps crude) appeal if applied to some of the people in my life.

Oh if you mean getting "rid' of people. (That sounds crude, but I cannot think of a pleasant way of expressing it.)
Yes.

Some people have been with me on my journey through life… others (me included) seem to falter by the wayside, and some, I confess I actively let go. Not because of anything superficial (I hope!) but because the inner connection that I thought was there either never was present, and I only wanted it to be there, or it gradually eroded. I change, they change… and often there is some epiphany where I see for the first time that a relationship is only a one way street.
So I keep the best, and yes, declutter along the way…

My particular horror is FaceBook people with 500, 1,000, 2,000 "friends". Not how life works.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Oh if you mean getting "rid' of people. (That sounds crude, but I cannot think of a pleasant way of expressing it.)
Yes.

Some people have been with me on my journey through life… others (me included) seem to falter by the wayside, and some, I confess I actively let go. Not because of anything superficial (I hope!) but because the inner connection that I thought was there either never was present, and I only wanted it to be there, or it gradually eroded. I change, they change… and often there is some epiphany where I see for the first time that a relationship is only a one way street.
So I keep the best, and yes, declutter along the way…

My particular horror is FaceBook people with 500, 1,000, 2,000 "friends". Not how life works.

Agree with you completely about that form of FB horror.

I think (no, I know) I have in mind certain relationships or friendships.

Some (surprising you) come up unexpected trumps at times such as this. Others disappoint you so much, that you realise that the friendship was a construct based on a set of circumstances that no longer apply.

Quite a few friendships - or, what one thinks are friendships - are thrown into sharp relief by the stresses and strains placed on them by a shattering bereavement.

Some of mine came to an end after my dad's death, when the normal pattern - for I had tended to play the supportive and listening and counselling role in the friendship - was suspended; this was because at that time, I needed support, and was unable (and unwilling) to offer it.

The shock for me was not only did I not receive it, - this pair (who did not know one another) remained as self-absorbed as ever - but I did sense their resentment (unconscious no doubt) that I was no longer available for them in the way that I had been, and had been established for decades.

They wished for a speedy restoration of the status quo ante; I came to the belated realisation that I had no intention of playing that role ever again in those two relationships, and while I did not end them visibly at the time, privately, I did so, - for, over time - I deliberately allowed them to wither.

Now, I am faced with something similar; the boundless and bottomless self-regard of someone I have cared for deeply; nothing will puncture his self absorption and he is utterly incapable of offering any support while still demanding time, sympathy, support and attention.

However, I'm too tired for that, and too raw and wounded.

 

[Lioness~]

I think of connections that are no longer a real connection, as outgrown.
Depending on our choices and interests of growth in life, people pass through.
Connection with truth remains.

I have no problems of letting go of connections where I don't feel there's a real connection with mutual sharing.
It's better in my experience to let go earlier rather then later, too avoid issues and drama.
If there is a connection of heart that have some real substance, the meeting will stand the pause.

At a later time it might even feel like it was just a period when growth just had different branchings, and they never really disappeared. We were just busy following our own truth in different directions

 

[Matz]

Interesting topic, clutter.

Declutter is a descriptive term, but I prefer the term simplify.

I think of some of the beautiful things I have, things that are useful, and things that were once useful to me but no longer are. It is the last of these upon which I try to focus my attention in the process of simplifying, and which are sometimes quite difficult to let go, mainly because I imagine they might again become useful to me. A form of denial.

But of the objects I want to keep, I also feel each needs the proper amount of space to be appreciated fully, either in terms of beauty or usefulness. Sometimes both.

When I look at my SO’s collection of bottles she’s acquired over the decades, I at first saw clutter, but upon further reflection, see that the individual bottles are of a piece. The collection sits atop a cabinet, occupying maybe square four feet, and is aesthetically pleasing. A nightmare to keep dusted, but pleasing. However, that same cabinet would benefit from more space on either side, to more effectively display it as furniture.

The individual artwork (prints, save one) hanging on the walls need sufficient space to be fully appreciated.

And furniture, in my opinion, benefits from sufficient space to effectively use and to appreciate aesthetically.

Carpentry and automotive tools, of which I have many, need both density and surrounding space in order to be useful. Right now mine are mostly in that unhappy state known as disarray, where they are far less functional than they should be. It’s a project.

I could go on, as it’s what’s on my mind, but will stop now.

 

[kazmac]

What's on my mind?

Wondering who really is listening in on everything we type and speak and do…

Yesterday I joked in a post here on MacRumours about the "Illuminati"… Post link.

This morning I receive a private message on Instagram, yup, you guessed it! Inviting me to join the Illustrious Brotherhood of the Illuminati…

Good grief.

Sometimes I get the feeling I live in a world treacle thick in spam, and there is no way to disentangle ourselves.
I suppose I can expect a message on Twitter later on.

Throw some Cthulhu HP Lovecraft at those Illuminati types. Have fun with it.

Well, apparently spammers know when I use my debit or credit cards because I start getting robot calls. Never answer them though.

What’s on my mind?

Getting home and setting up my iPad Pro 10.5. Best Buy has the absolute best sale (so far) on the 256gb, so despite my no-yes-argh! with Apple lately, I know this is the best drawing tool for me and I can finally give mom the 2018 iPad I bought for her last September.

She needs it so bad...

But now I must earn the money to pay for said iPP.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Letting friends go. Been there, done that.

I recall one friend who I used to see weekly at one point. I helped them out financially and with my time and stuff.
Anyway eventually they moved away. But I’d still call and text as you do.
But eventually I saw that he’d only ever respond to my texts or calls. And you just decide the friendship has run it’s course.

No big falling out. Just part of life.

 

[Clix Pix]

Decluttering has certainly been on my mind the past several days and I have just finished clearing out and reorganizing the antique Hoosier cabinet in my kitchen. It's a nice feeling to see everything so nicely organized now, everything in a logical place! Now I have to get some boxes in which to put and transport the glassware and other items that I've decided to donate to a charity shop; once that is done then I truly WILL have decluttered! Alas, that is only one cabinet, though...... The rest of the kitchen cabinets could benefit from such a reorganization, too!

 

[kazmac]

Letting friends go. Been there, done that.

I recall one friend who I used to see weekly at one point. I helped them out financially and with my time and stuff.
Anyway eventually they moved away. But I’d still call and text as you do.
But eventually I saw that he’d only ever respond to my texts or calls. And you just decide the friendship has run it’s course.

No big falling out. Just part of life.

That’s happened a lot with me. As you say the friendship ran it’s course.

Gosh, I need to deciutter and clean my room. And clean other parts of the house too. Have to rethink my movie purchases too. Lots that I’ve bought and haven’t opened or watched.

 

[Apple fanboy]

That’s happened a lot with me. As you say the friendship ran it’s course.

Gosh, I need to deciutter and clean my room. And clean other parts of the house too. Have to rethink my movie purchases too. Lots that I’ve bought and haven’t opened or watched.

We have loads of DVD’s and BlueRays gathering dust. Not to mention two gaming consoles I’ve not turned on in years with their associated controllers and games.
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Decluttering has certainly been on my mind the past several days and I have just finished clearing out and reorganizing the antique Hoosier cabinet in my kitchen. It's a nice feeling to see everything so nicely organized now, everything in a logical place! Now I have to get some boxes in which to put and transport the glassware and other items that I've decided to donate to a charity shop; once that is done then I truly WILL have decluttered! Alas, that is only one cabinet, though...... The rest of the kitchen cabinets could benefit from such a reorganization, too!

Well Spring is coming! A good time to declutter and sort.

 

[Mefisto]

Have to rethink my movie purchases too. Lots that I’ve bought and haven’t opened or watched.

Yeah, there's some of that going on around here as well. When I exclusively bought DVD's, it was good. Then the BD's came, and I swore I would not double dip on films. Now there's 4K UHD BD and I'm, at times, at the point of quadruple dipping which is not fun. Or maybe it is, who knows at this point.

Another thing.

Usually after a day's work we go out for a beer or two with the crew to unwind before heading home, or to another bar.

Today, probably for the first time ever, I skipped all of that and ended up buying some cold medicine and a nose hair trimmer before going home to actually get some rest.

I feel old, but luckily not entirely useless. If I had one of those foot spa machines, whatever they're called, I'd soak my hooves in there for a minimum of two whole days.

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

[kazmac]

Yeah, there's some of that going on around here as well. When I exclusively bought DVD's, it was good. Then the BD's came, and I swore I would not double dip on films. Now there's 4K UHD BD and I'm, at times, at the point of quadruple dipping which is not fun. Or maybe it is, who knows at this point.

Another thing.

Usually after a day's work we go out for a beer or two with the crew to unwind before heading home, or to another bar.

Today, probably for the first time ever, I skipped all of that and ended up buying some cold medicine and a nose hair trimmer before going home to actually get some rest.

I feel old, but luckily not entirely useless. If I had one of those foot spa machines, whatever they're called, I'd soak my hooves in there for a minimum of two whole days.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Yeah, I’ve been triple and quadrupling certain movies a lot here. Thank goodness I sort of came to my senses. Like I need more than one version of most of Dario Argento’s movies? Not really, no.

You’re not old, just had a rough week and needed to downgear in a different way.

 

[Lioness~]

Time to practice some self-compassion. Fever broke out.
Pushed body pretty hard recently Been intense.

Probably the visit to the solarium that pushed the edge too mush.
Was walking on the border last week in self-treatment.
Now I’m can stay in bed all next week. Without bad conscience

 

[0388631]

Wondering how I lost track of the last five hours while enjoying my cherry sours. Also bought some organic candy which omits gelatin in favor of starch for a winegum like chew, but not sticky.

a nose hair trimmer

I need a new one... recommendations?

 

[Apple fanboy]

Wondering how I lost track of the last five hours while enjoying my cherry sours. Also bought some organic candy which omits gelatin in favor of starch for a winegum like chew, but not sticky.


I need a new one... recommendations?

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