Every Monday I publish a round-up of videos, articles, news and thoughts that I hope will prove both interesting and chortlesome. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Greetings! In this week’s Start The Week I look at books, home refurbishments, writers’ bravery and other interesting stuff. While reading, do bear in mind today’s date. But enough of this persiflage! On with the newsletter.
That's an interesting selection of books to work through. Look forward to hearing about them in more detail. The map one looks like something my father would joy.
Hmm, the puzzle. Feels like a rearrangement of words. The phrase "ready, willing and able" is jumbled, although that doesn't quite fit properly.
BTW you look very presidential in the photo. All you needed was a waist high stack of paper and a pen and claimed to be busy signing executive orders. Hehe. (Inside American joke?)
Loved this start the week, Terry, and I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified about how at home you look in your 'at-home' Oval office!
'The hardest part of playing the saxophone is to open the case and play the instrument every day' - this really resonates with me as an all-or-nothing, throws-herself-into-everything-100%, gives-up-five-minutes-later kind of person..... Reading what you've then said about the blank page, though, has given me some solace, because I am happy to keep trying to tackle that on a(n almost) daily basis - although I'm set to become neither musician nor novelist! 🤣
Okay, I give up - I can't find your April Fool. Or is it that there ISN'T one?! 🤔
Lots of great stuff today, Terry. I wish I had had an Oval Office when I was raising my boys--as you said, it adds a certain gravitas.
I was enthralled with the little sound clips of the Scouse regional accent. It brought me back to my childhood and hearing the four young Liverpool lads with the funny haircuts for the first time.
Thanks for the shout out, President Terry in the Oval Office! I agree--meeting a fellow writer in person adds another dimension to our work and life. It makes our writing real and our effort more meaningful somehow.
"...there's a big gap between how I should like to sound, how I imagine myself sounding, and how I do sound." Yes. Just like writing, as you say. My only saving grace is that I have no one pressuring me, no obligation to write. It just gives me so much pleasure. I have nothing to lose but my credibility, and maybe a dab of dignity, and I am too old to worry about that. Fun stuff today as every Monday, my friend! Thank you.
It's a pleasure. There are similarities and divergences (even personal) between both Argentine writers. Cortázar is from a later generation, and his approach to the fantastic is, in my opinion, more exuberant on the one hand, but also more 'down-to-earth', everyday, which produces a considerable vertigo. Borges was Wagner, Cortázar Coltrane (and may the muses of comparison forgive me).
Thank you once more, Terry, for your inspiring post to kickstart the week positively. I definitely admire your productivity, even in terms of saxophone playing. Speaking of the saxophone, when it comes to experimentation and literature, I can't resist recommending the work of my dear Julio Cortázar. His story 'El perseguidor' (The Pursuer) is a masterpiece that embodies all those elements.
Hah, love the Oval Office pic 😆
That's an interesting selection of books to work through. Look forward to hearing about them in more detail. The map one looks like something my father would joy.
Hmm, the puzzle. Feels like a rearrangement of words. The phrase "ready, willing and able" is jumbled, although that doesn't quite fit properly.
Lost in Jazzlation... Playing randomly helps myself to don't judge notes for their cover 😅
What a nice round up. Thx for including me.
The Sax! How fab that you are learning.
BTW you look very presidential in the photo. All you needed was a waist high stack of paper and a pen and claimed to be busy signing executive orders. Hehe. (Inside American joke?)
Loved this start the week, Terry, and I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified about how at home you look in your 'at-home' Oval office!
'The hardest part of playing the saxophone is to open the case and play the instrument every day' - this really resonates with me as an all-or-nothing, throws-herself-into-everything-100%, gives-up-five-minutes-later kind of person..... Reading what you've then said about the blank page, though, has given me some solace, because I am happy to keep trying to tackle that on a(n almost) daily basis - although I'm set to become neither musician nor novelist! 🤣
Okay, I give up - I can't find your April Fool. Or is it that there ISN'T one?! 🤔
Lots of great stuff today, Terry. I wish I had had an Oval Office when I was raising my boys--as you said, it adds a certain gravitas.
I was enthralled with the little sound clips of the Scouse regional accent. It brought me back to my childhood and hearing the four young Liverpool lads with the funny haircuts for the first time.
Thanks for the shout out, President Terry in the Oval Office! I agree--meeting a fellow writer in person adds another dimension to our work and life. It makes our writing real and our effort more meaningful somehow.
"...there's a big gap between how I should like to sound, how I imagine myself sounding, and how I do sound." Yes. Just like writing, as you say. My only saving grace is that I have no one pressuring me, no obligation to write. It just gives me so much pleasure. I have nothing to lose but my credibility, and maybe a dab of dignity, and I am too old to worry about that. Fun stuff today as every Monday, my friend! Thank you.
You look remarkably at home in the Oval Office. Don't eat the jellybeans.
It's a pleasure. There are similarities and divergences (even personal) between both Argentine writers. Cortázar is from a later generation, and his approach to the fantastic is, in my opinion, more exuberant on the one hand, but also more 'down-to-earth', everyday, which produces a considerable vertigo. Borges was Wagner, Cortázar Coltrane (and may the muses of comparison forgive me).
Wow! What an epic newsletter! And THANK YOU for the shout out!
Thank you once more, Terry, for your inspiring post to kickstart the week positively. I definitely admire your productivity, even in terms of saxophone playing. Speaking of the saxophone, when it comes to experimentation and literature, I can't resist recommending the work of my dear Julio Cortázar. His story 'El perseguidor' (The Pursuer) is a masterpiece that embodies all those elements.
https://archive.org/details/endofgameotherst0000cort
End of the Game and Other Stories https://amzn.eu/d/6a8wj6f
Interesting books. The videos definitely date us. Grin. Ah the memories…
Thanks for the shout out Terry! 😃👏
I guess you want to have your guests address you as "President Freedman"....
Hope y'all enjoy this.