Weekly things
Joy soup, waiting, and “Trust the porpoise”
ICYMI: Things from The London Diary
Things from the day
Monday 19 August
In my final art class, the teacher says “do as I say, not as I do” and at the heart of it is a reminder that even experts favour play over their own advice.
Tuesday 20 August
I get a text from a friend I made during my rowing course, and she suggests a spontaneous walk in the late afternoon to “get this friendship going”—and I can’t think of a better way to do just that.
Wednesday 21 August
Seen somewhere on the internet: “We don’t need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.”
Thursday 22 August
We are talking about difficult decisions of the heart, and my friend tells me that the best advice she ever received was to remember the potential you see in someone is often a projection of what you would do in their shoes.
Friday 23 August
In a video recording, John Lennon uses an analogy to talk about attempting impossible things—say if you were dropped in the ocean 800 miles away from land, you would start swimming.…