Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett.
Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, and include links recommendations, a good meme and more.
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Stella Maris
The Shrine of Our Ladye Star of the Sea was an old chapel on the cliffs at Broadstairs. Dating back at least to the 1350s
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A strange sort of collapse
Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patience obtains all thingsWhoever has God lacks nothing;God alone suffices. — St. Teresa of Avila Narrative I walk from Bank down Bishopsgate. A man shouts ‘Standard’ over and over. I wonder if he’s an NPC: street dressing in the simulation. Though the new…
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Eternity can be found in the minuscule…
….in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.”― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms Narrative Despite all the stuff I’ve been up to so far this…
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Every mile is two in winter
“Good words are worth much, and cost little.” ― George Herbert Narrative I think I’m going to move my post day to Saturday. Fridays is getting busier as the day I have to go in to London. It’s also the reason I’ve spent most of today hung over. I’ve spent the week grazing on the…
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EndSerenading
Recovery from last week continues. A birthday and building of flatpack furniture.
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Well, fuck them. Make it personal
Oh so sick, just mark the middle of our door with a red cross a foot long. I’m writing this with an extremely light head. Narrative Jay Springett, uno de los principales paladines del solarpunk como movimiento, el objetivo es responder a la gran pregunta: “¿qué aspecto tiene una civilización sostenible y cómo podemos llegar…
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A rich palette of ecosystems
It’s frustrating that it costs you well over £10 to step out your front door in London. Hashtag 2018 I suppose.
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Minister of My Own Labor
It’s been a strange week thats for sure but I’m not going to talk about that here. Narrative I’m now twelve days into my new social media diet. The essay “Avoid News, Towards a Healthy News Diet” by Rolf Dobelli has been a big influence on me since I read it back in 2012/13 ish. We…
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I used to bother to post things here
I’m aware that I lament almost every time I bother to login to wordpress to post something… I used to write a round up of all the things that happened during the previous year but stopped in jan 2016.