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What you are aware of
“What you are aware of, you are in control of, what your are not aware of is in control of you.” Awareness by Anthony De Mello. This is a line from Awareness (one of the very few books I reread annually and have posted about before) that I’ve been coming back to again and again…
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Bruce Lee: punk and monk
“The joke in China is kung fu is a way to trick thirteen-year-old boys into meditating. Bruce had started his martial arts path as a punk. From this instant forward, he would speak and think more and more like a Taoist monk. This internal dichotomy and conflict between his punkish personality and monkish insights would…
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No great merit in it if it’s mechanical
The beauty of an action comes not from its having become a habit but from its sensitivity, consciousness, clarity of perception, and accuracy of response.”
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My year of reading
I set out at the beginning of 2023 with the aim that it would be my YEAR OF READING; a single theme that I wanted to focus on instead of my typical monthly goal setting. I picked it because, surprise, I love reading, and just as much as that, I love how reading makes me…
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My brain’s a sand dune
My daughter recommended a book to me the other night, Charlie and Me by Mark Lowery, and it’s been a remarkable read. A book that’s just as suited for 10-14-year-olds as it is to 40-somethings like myself. I like the poetry woven throughout, and this “shape poem” called Sand Dune rung especially true.
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Blood, sweat, and chrome
I finished reading Blood, Sweat, and Chrome by Kyle Buchanan last week, which documents the wild story of the roughly twenty-year journey it took to create the movie Mad Max: Fury Road, released in 2015. It’s said that the film is one of the greatest action films ever and one of the best movies of…
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Some of my favorite things from 2020
A selection of music, books, quotes, articles and more that struck a chord in 2020.
Writing and drawings by Nick.
