Blossom

My recent reading seems to focus on ‘the immediate’, ‘don’t go searching’ seems to be a take-away… 

Below are some blossom trees in Abbey Park in Leicester that have promised, and delivered recently. Abbey Park may be 150 years old but it still has more to give…

I’ve been meaning to post something for a while, but I can’t find space to form anything cohesive, so here’s (just) a list of recent jottings; (and a word cloud from said jottings)

Fact: apparently, we fall into a hypnotic state roughly ten times a day – for a few seconds only…

‘The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.’
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes

‘Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.’ 
Carl Sagan

‘We create wonderful places by giving them our attention, not by finding “pristine” places that will bring wonder to us.’
David Haskell

‘We live more in the life we do not have than in the life we do,’
‘a poet’ 

‘The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.’
G. K. Chesterton

‘the hardest thing of all to see is what is really there’
J.A. Baker; The Peregrine

‘There are things we will never see, unless we walk to them. Walking is a mobile form of waiting. What I take with me, what I leave behind, are of less importance than what I discover along the way.’
Thomas A. Clark

‘And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.’
Roald Dahl

‘Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it. And so will most people who come into contact with you.’
Jesse Owens

‘logical positivism; if we don’t have a word for something, we cannot think of it, let alone care for it’
A.J. Ayer 

sonder; a noun meaning the realisation that each random passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, populated with their ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness.

‘People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.’
Iris Murdoch, ‘A Fairly Honourable Defeat’