17-Prod

My Tasks ToDo tracking list has 28 items. Starting at the top row, it’s nice to know, without having to decide, what’s to be worked on next.

Monet’s Garden

All 28 tasks in the sequence can be done in one day, but completing the entire list, even at nine minutes per item, would be 252 minutes, or 4.2 hours out of the 16 available to me.

14-Home

From beyond the Moon, View from Artemis I, 430,000 kilometers from Earth

Besides being mostly void and bereft of matter, the universe at large is cruel and unfriendly. If the aliens are here, it’s for the conviviality of this one planet.

apod.nasa.gov

11-Ning

Dragon Drop by Karen Seapker

The smell of coffee in the morning is great incentive to wake up for the day. Drinking a cup o’ joe which has such pleasant flavor makes life worth living. And coffee gets one moving, and you know: moving is good for you.

10-Hilo

Wild StrawberriesIngmar Bergman (1957)

Old Man Isak Borg Listens To Anders & Viktor Wax Philosophical

A: Ah, when creation shows so much beauty, how radiant must be the source!

V: How can anyone today study to become a minister!

A: Your rationalism is as dry as dust.

V: I say that modern man believes in only himself and his biological death.

A: Modern man is a figment of your imagination. Man regards death with horror.

V: Religion for the people. Opium for the aching limb.

09-Taga

ChessMap

Anatoly Karpov vs Viktor Korchnoi (1974)
Yugoslav Attack vs Sicilian Dragon Defense

Chess skills are most helpful when you are playing chess. However, when you climb & jump on rocks, your entire brain & body are put to work.

The board & pieces are all the material, but the METAGAME dynamic is certainly a factor in competition. The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig is about losing the battle to a weaker player who uses a novel psychology.

Feline Inscrutability vs Dogged Tenacity.

05-Liev

Prashanti Villa by Vastu Villa Studio

The Coffer Illusion by Anthony Norcia – Believe it or not, there are 12 circles in this image (and 12 is a hint that will help you see them).

I will understand if you quit looking for now, but if you decide to give up: click here.

Every time you let go of something limiting, you create space for something better.

Stephen C. Paul