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Humpback Whale Video Source: AestheticsBackground on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again. Share this:Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading...Filed Under: Inspire, Photography, Quotes Tagged With: Caleb, Hump Day, humpback, humpback whale, Photography, WednesdayTuesday Morning Wake-UpCall December 15, 2020 by Live Learn 26 Comments Remember when you would have been over-the-moon thrilled to have just a fraction of your life as it is now?Look around you: it is enough.KEEP MOVING— Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (Atria/One Signal Publishers, October 6, 2020)Photo: Daybreak. December 15, 2020. 6:39 to 7:09 am. 29° F. Feels like 23° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford CTShare this:Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading...Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: attention, awareness, clouds, enough, Gratitude, maggie smith, orange, Photography, Sky, sunriseMonday Morning Wake-Up Call (224 consecutive days. Amygdala to therescue) December 14, 2020 by Live Learn 47 Comments When there are discrepancies between expectations and reality, all kinds of distress signals go off in the brain. It doesn’t matter if it’s a holiday ritual or more mundane habit like how you tie your shoes; if you can’t do it the way you normally do it, you’re biologically engineered to get upset. This in part explains people’s grief and longing for the routines that were the background melodies of their lives before the pandemic — and also their sense of unease as we enter a holiday season unlike any other. The good news is that much of what we miss about our routines and customs, and what makes them beneficial to us as a species, has more to do with their comforting regularity than the actual behaviors. The key to coping during this, or any, time of upheaval is to quickly establish new routines so that, even if the world is uncertain, there are still things you can count on Routines, rituals and habits arise from the primitive part of our brains telling us, “Keep doing what you’ve been doing, because you did it before, and you didn’t die.” So the unvarying way you shower and shave in the morning, how you always queue up for a latte before work and put your latte to the left of your laptop before checking your email are all essentially subconscious efforts to make your world more predictable, orderly and safe Our brains are literally overburdened with all the uncertainty caused by the pandemic. Not only is there the seeming capriciousness of the virus, but we no longer have the routines that served as the familiar scaffolding of our lives. Things we had already figured out and relegated to the brain’s autopilot function — going to work, visiting the gym, taking the kids to school, meeting friends for dinner, grocery shopping — now require serious thought and risk analysis But it’s mundane routines that give us structure to help us pare things down and better navigate the world, which helps us make sense of things and feel that life has meaning The truth is that you cannot control what happens in life. But you can create a routine that gives your life a predictable rhythm and secure mooring .— Kate Murphy, from “Pandemic-Proof Your Habits” (NY Times, November 28, 2020)Note:My Morning Walk to Cove Island Park. 224 days consecutive days.Photo: Daybreak. December 13, 2020. 6:53 am. 47° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford CTShare this:Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading...Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: amygdala, Brain, habit, kate murphy, pandemic, quarantine, routine, Stress, uncertaintySunday Morning December 13, 2020 by Live Learn 20 Comments [She] says Remember, you’re writing these poems for god.I’m about to ask her what type of poems god likeswhen the wind picks up, sending a flood of small, round leaves down the street. Got it, I say.—  Chessy Normile, from “There Was a Forest of Pines I Loved for Years,” The American Poetry Review (vo. 49, no. 6, November/December 2020)Notes: Poem Source  Memory s Landscape. Photo: DK, Cove Island Park, Nov 12, 2020, 6:45 a.m.Share this:Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading...Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Chessy Normile, cove island park, God, leaves, Photography, Poem, Poetry, stamford, WindThe Sky Is Mine / Floating on like in adream December 12, 2020 by Live Learn 28 Comments Notes:Daybreak. December 12, 2020. 6:30 to 7:00 am. 39° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford CTPost Title: The Sky is Mine by David N. Degnan excerpt:  Head in the clouds, / Living without doubt. / That life is good and / Control is mine. / In that serenity, / That’s where I’d love to be. / Floating on like in a dream. / And in that peace, / I think I could see / Just what living truly means. The truth is that you cannot control what happens in life. But you can create a routine that gives your life a pred… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3daysago

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