Tag: Pentlands
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52and40/39 Method in the Madness
I’ve been unitasking. I like that this sounds like unicycling but actually involves zero circus fuckery. Unitasking’s simply doing one thing at a time. I can multitask but I make mistakes, get stressed and then there’s frustration about rushing or being a bitch to myself or some poor bystander along the way. So, no more…
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52and40/38 Habit Forming
I read thirteen books this year. I’m happy about re-establishing reading after years of total drought. Some say it takes twenty-one days to form a habit. It’s taken me nearer twenty one months. At first my concentration was so poor I had to read every paragraph repeatedly, forcing myself to put down my phone for twenty…
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52and40/30 True Colours
I’ve found so much in the Pentlands since moving to Edinburgh. Beauty and calm, mostly. Birds. Space to walk and run out problems, too. Places to be with the kids, to eat and talk. The city’s wonderful but if I didn’t have something opposite to frame it, I’d appreciate it much less. One 2016 day…
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52and40/10 Air In Your Hair
I’ve never seen a Scottish Autumn and Winter as beautiful, so far, as what 2016’s given. The beauty in these seasons is going a long, gentle way to keeping breathing through the humanity shitstorm we’ve seen happen around the world this year. It’s easier to believe we’re not all doomed when nature’s on its best behaviour. As my…
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52and40/5 Foreground Focus
I don’t rage against the dying of the light in a Scottish Autumn. I like putting on lamps in the afternoon and seeing into people’s windows from the bus; stealing details for stories. I relish the warmth of the house in contrast to the new chill outdoors. I’m letting the idea that, ‘what’s in the way is…
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52and39/49 Three Times A Lady
Triple-thinking is (to me); Thinking about something and failing to make a decision. Thinking about the something again then making a decision that’s carried out with rumbling uneasiness. Regretting the decision and thinking about how I should have done it differently. It’s an inefficient cycle I started at a time when high stress collided with an enforced period of time…
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call it madness
It strikes me that not knowing how to do something is not a good enough reason for not trying to do it. Lots of people don’t like that fact, if you state it as your reality. We like to believe that there are things we can do and things we can’t do. Our minds like to…
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52and39/37 Making A Space
Sometimes, when we’d really like someone to change, we can be willing them on and unknowingly blocking them. Anyone I’ve known who ever changed (including myself) did so because of a big shock; a lambasting, gargantuan shock of the hand grenade in the mind variety; the type that obliterates then rewrites whatever went before. Willing someone to change isn’t…
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52and39/35 Back of the Net
I’m thinking a LOT about self sabotage. I’m thinking about how I’ve elaborately protected myself from failure by subtlely self- sabotaging goals to such an extent that, it seemed, they just weren’t meant to be. *sigh* I guess it’s my age. I’ll be 39 tomorrow. If I’m lucky I’m a little under the halfway point in my life.…
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52and39/30 What’s The Story?
I’ve been reading a book and listening to a podcast I wouldn’t normally choose. Both stories are crime based; one’s real, the other fictitious. Both stories are painstakingly, expertly told. I’ve been intrigued by the acute effects of this different ‘entertainment’ material; I’ve been more alert and somehow quieter. My dreams have gone mad with threats, high risk puzzles, gasping…
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