Great post, Terry - I really enjoy your 'Start the week' pieces! Your report of the council meeting has taken me straight back to when I held a position on a (very small) local rural committee - it really made me laugh.
I'm particularly impressed with your productivity (Iām jealous!) and reports on your post views and subscribers!
I haven't checked out all your links yet, but thank you so much for those - I'm looking forward to spinning that wheel. š
Thanks, Rebecca . Committees are generally pretty awful, and council committees are even awfuller. Yes, that wheel thing is pretty cool. In fact, as a beatnik might have put it, it's straight from the fridge.
Wow, it's gratifying to think one of my comments might actually have been useful! Thanks for the mention :-) I look forward to trying the form if I can access it.
I love the anecdote about the party. When the world has shown you ugliness and chaos, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is try to enjoy the beauty in ordinary life.
Yes indeed...there is far too much emphasis imo on āachievementā in our culture at the moment and as far as I can make it it is the achievement of quite ordinary things that really any decent society should be able to fairly well ensure for its members not make contingent on coming first in some sort of ongoing marathon no one even realised they had entered - In other words existential threat is ever hovering. I know what I blame...!!!
People are indeed extraordinary, especially with matters of education and plumbing. We do underestimate the depth and meanings of our histories. And the ways we live within them. Great post, Terry.
Thanks Martin. I feel his pain. I'm writing on Substack mainly for enjoyment And the hope that others will get some pleasure from reading it. But earning some money from it is definitely helpful and gratifying to know some people like my stuff enough to pay. I will have a look at the YouTube channel you linked to. Cheers
Great post, Terry - I really enjoy your 'Start the week' pieces! Your report of the council meeting has taken me straight back to when I held a position on a (very small) local rural committee - it really made me laugh.
I'm particularly impressed with your productivity (Iām jealous!) and reports on your post views and subscribers!
I haven't checked out all your links yet, but thank you so much for those - I'm looking forward to spinning that wheel. š
Thanks, Rebecca . Committees are generally pretty awful, and council committees are even awfuller. Yes, that wheel thing is pretty cool. In fact, as a beatnik might have put it, it's straight from the fridge.
Wow, it's gratifying to think one of my comments might actually have been useful! Thanks for the mention :-) I look forward to trying the form if I can access it.
I love the anecdote about the party. When the world has shown you ugliness and chaos, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is try to enjoy the beauty in ordinary life.
Lol. Yes, the party story is quite powerful, isn't it. Totally agree with you about the most radical thing.
definitely - a lot of atmosphere too!!!
Yes indeed...there is far too much emphasis imo on āachievementā in our culture at the moment and as far as I can make it it is the achievement of quite ordinary things that really any decent society should be able to fairly well ensure for its members not make contingent on coming first in some sort of ongoing marathon no one even realised they had entered - In other words existential threat is ever hovering. I know what I blame...!!!
People are indeed extraordinary, especially with matters of education and plumbing. We do underestimate the depth and meanings of our histories. And the ways we live within them. Great post, Terry.
Thanks Mark. Beautiful comment.
Great post as always. And congratulations on the new paid subs. Itās very humbling when people pay to access your work.
Thanks Martin. Isn't it just? Amazing in a way.
Do you subscribe to Coffee Times?
No, hadn't heard of it
They have just posted about going paid. They are despairing little.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeetimes12/p/substack-badges-a-good-initiative?r=1nyz10&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Thanks Martin. I feel his pain. I'm writing on Substack mainly for enjoyment And the hope that others will get some pleasure from reading it. But earning some money from it is definitely helpful and gratifying to know some people like my stuff enough to pay. I will have a look at the YouTube channel you linked to. Cheers