"Perfect Day" by Lou Reed

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Funny. I think this a lot - but never quite put my finger on it.

🔗 Geography is four-dimensional

But that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore.

💬 Derek Sivers

When it gets down to it I always - always refer to myself as English. On first introduction maybe a Brit - or British - but deep down … English.

And - there is my ‘home’ - but haven’t really lived there much in my life.

I was close to nine before I even got to the country that I wasn’t even born in and lived in the US longer than I ever lived in the UK - and now down here in New Zealand. And the magnet that is home pulls me there - but I know enough that it isn’t the place I left.

I am in New Zealand and not (yet at least) returning to the USA - because I know that isn’t what it used to be. And that just isn’t to do with the clown. I found myself disenchanted with Silicon Valley fifteen years ago - even living in it - it was clear that “‘It’s’ not like that anymore” … Fifteen years later … other people seem to be catching up.

Home? Definitely - where I hang my hat in a day-to-day sense.
Spiritually? England - no doubt - even though it’s not like that anymore.
From? What’s the context?

When Finalist first appeared - of course, I tried it out. Couldn’t get into it. I blame muscle memory. Meanwhile Gruber has talked about it a lot and I happened to actually listen to one of his shows recently - the one with MG - and in it he gave a link to 6 months free - so I am trying again.

Still got the muscle memory problem - but now I have 6 months to make it work.

This post - and others that I have read by Slaven (he that is Finalist) really resonated and sticking with it. (It helps that back in the day was a really big user and advocate of Filofax.)

Once notes are inside a planner, they stop feeling like notes; they become the glue that gets you through the week.

💬 Slaven - he of Finalist

Time will tell.

🔗 The Missing Half of a Daily Planner

We lived on Waiheke for a year and the daily constitutional was along the beach on Oneroa.

I found this a related and interesting read …

🔗 The Disappearance of the Public Bench – Pixel Envy

A bench is one of the few places you can sit and spend time for free. Their absence in so many public places is notable for what it says about who we consider part of the public.

All along one half of the Oneroa beach there are chairs to sit in. On?

They don’t belong to the houses. This is not a council service. This is just the love of a single person who noted that on such a vast and beautiful beach there was no place to casually sit - which particularly affects older / infirm people so took it upon themselves to keep the sitting places well populated and goes down twice a week to keep to add and restock the chairs. Yes I know who it is. No I won’t tell you. They travel under the radar.

Side note - the Rotary Club has placed (to date) 58 Public Access Defibrillation Units across Waiheke - so maybe it’s an ‘island thing’? Though I don’t recall one such machine on Maui when I lived there.

When I first saw this film … film, not movie - film … I logged it as one of my top, personal favourites of all time.

My opinion hasn’t changed.