This Podcast…
I listened to an AMAZING thought provoking podcast…The Mel Robbins podcast interview with Martha Beck. It’s about finding one’s purpose, and designing the life of desire. This one gave me chills literally! Martha Beck coaches the audience in this one, and now I see why she is famous for the right reasons…she was there with me, cheering me on as her message was penetrating deep within and striking a chord. It all suddenly made sense, how discomfort and suffering are our friends telling us we are not on the right path.
You need to listen to this one to know the magic of the words of Martha Beck…And I now need to pick up her books and start reading!
This Book…
I started this lovely interesting book by Roland Allen from the library, and am enjoying the trek through history about how we humans came to use notebooks as our external brains. The book starts with an intriguing introduction about Moleskine Notebooks, and the first chapter takes us to the very first notebook that we know of from antiquity. And then we move from place to place, story to story of how we’ve been using notebooks all this time- as ledgers, as sketchbooks, as travel logs etc. For someone who LOVES notebooks, this is a wonderful non-fiction that I am very much enjoying.
This TV show…
My husband and I started watching the TV adaptation of the most wonderful Pulitzer Prize winning book All the Light You Cannot See on Netflix. We have only seen part 1 of 4 of this adaptation, but I am hooked!
I read the book a long time ago, so I don’t remember all the details, but the series starts at the end of the book, and weaves the past in through bits and pieces as memories of characters. The main characters are endearing and complex. The horrors of the World War when this book is set in, are authentic and gut wrenching. I am enjoying this, and am happy we clicked on it…
This Docu-Series
We finally finished our 9 hour saga of the Beatles Get Back that I mentioned in this post. And I LOVED it!
I also really enjoyed how they ended the last part with the Beatles very unusual rooftop concert in the middle of London, and all the complexities around it. These humans who became gods for a lot of people in their day, we simple humans. Not full of themselves. Not rude, or brash, or selfish. They were nice people. And having spent 9 hours with them, I know why they were so adored…I feel like I know them just a little bit, and could take a lesson in their dedication to their craft, their kindness towards each other, and their simply being humans even with all the fame and money they had. And of course, their music was fantastic. I got to watch their last public performance, on a rooftop in London…and it was just lovely.
Highly recommend it! If you can spend 9 hours doing it 🙂