Tag: gratitude

We got that attitude! – 25th April 2020

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I am so happy and grateful for the temperature today. There’s a cool breeze and no need for a fan or air-con.

To-do list

  • Photos ✅
  • Fill in cracks in concrete
  • Sort more CDRs ✅
  • Clear emails – esp Stoa ✅

I haven’t been particularly happy over the last couple of weeks – all the uncertainty in the world got me thinking too much.

Tomorrow I go back to school (for now at least) and despite really not wanting to go back to work, I think the routine will be useful for me.

I am already thinking about other things I can do ie. now motivated by one thing and provoking others.

This time has not been unproductive but has sometimes been a struggle. I’m motivated to get back into writing this (in my journal) again.

We got that attitude! – 22nd April 2020

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I am so happy and grateful for our Frangipani trees. Blooming and fragrant even in this drought.

I am fond of reading and listening but as to believing, no thank you, I can’t, and I don’t want to.

Anton Chekov, Love

To-do list

  • Finish CDs finally! ✅
  • Look through photos
  • Call George ½
  • Fill in cracks in concrete

Friday now. I talked with Hayden on Wednesday and he told me that his girlfriend had gotten pregnant. I pondered becoming a grandad but then he told me that she had got an abortion. I didn’t really have any reaction to this news – it’s not something I can change or choose to judge. He and his girlfriend will deal with it the best that they can.

I have been enjoying being in my room again though I’m still not 100% happy with the layout – it’s not quite comfortable yet.

Can I count on you if I fall apart? – 19th April 2020

Stewart Lee
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Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that I grew up at the time that I did. Grateful for Punk and alternative comedy. Stewart Lee is a wonderful human being.

2nd Jun 2022 – I always was annoyed that I was just a little too young for the first wave of punk but in the end, it was probably better because many folks from, and inspired by, the first wave ended up leaving it all behind or kind of disowning it. From the second wave, post-punk, UK82, hardcore, anarcho-punk etc the DIY aesthetic became ingrained and influenced every part of life.

I suppose we all rationalise our formative years in one way or another.

Everything you learn turns out to be connected to a hundred other things.

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