I saw this image on one of my favourite “blogs”:
I mean its obviously great, and meaningful, and worthy of more than a 5 second flick thru. Maybe you should brew a pot of tea and have a longer think about it.
I bought this book last year which is on basically the same subject - 168 hours in a week – how will you use yours ?
Image here, in case the original gets moved:
I went along to this function this evening, “Join Joyce Morgan, senior arts writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, as she discusses her new book. Journeys on the Silk Road follows the remarkable discovery and journey of the world’s oldest printed book, the Diamond Sutra.
Sealed for a thousand years in a cave in the Gobi Desert, its emergence has illuminated the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road and coincided with the growing appeal of this ancient tradition in the West.“
I was interested as I went there (Dunhuang, China) back in 1987 even before the authors of the above book! Also its good top support the local community – lots of people there!
Didn’t go swiming (still haven’t been since getting over the cold) but there was a good article in the Guardian about “Wild Swimming“.
I finally finished the book Mao-A Life – see my review here. I am trying to review all the books I read, not sure why, just a couple of sentences is usually all I do – you can check out my books read in the past (the last year or so’s worth not all the books I have ever read – there are literally too many to count), what I am reading now etc here on shelfari.
For the last week or so I have had a pain behind my left knee when running – definitely related to tightness in my muscles in my hamstring etc. It definitely feels like an injury now. bugger.
Note for rss feed subscribers – this was posted on 23rd April 2011 but relates to
16th April
2011.
Just watched this:
His book Fat Fourty & Fired is well good also.
I finished the Rowing to Alaska book – (review here). Today I went into the Kinokuniya bookshop in Sydney and bought the Food Rules book, then read it on the train. my review here. I also bought the Omnivore’s dilemma (a review, not mine obviously as I haven’t read it yet, here)
Found just the right website for a guy like me to track my reading habits: http://www.shelfari.com/kevtiller/shelf
Despite the long hours yesterday I still went in to work. I finished the book Indian Summer. It was a good book. I always like books about India. I guess I was interested in this one as the author was the same age as me, and a pom, and I have always wanted to be a teacher in an Indian slum. I think I will get there one day. I liked how he compared the english kids as self-important, self-centred versus the indian kids who were very keen and diligent students. Knowing my kids I know where he is coming from! That doesn’t necessarily mean I am becoming a grumpy old man!
I went to the library last weekend and borrowed 5 books in approx 10mins. I finished reading the first one, the Endless Steppe today. I realised it was a kids book but it was very good. Now I am old enough to have my own family I can see what a trauma the whole thing was. Scary.
The other thing I have found is that I am really keen to always learn more about each author I read, to understand their particular perspective. This book was a true story, and I was keen to see that the author moved to the USA but died last year. I guess that’s a really neat thing about the internet these days – everything at your fingertips.
I tried to get my kids (teenagers) to read it but they are a waste of space where anything cultured is concerned. Jazmin read the complete Twilight series in a few weeks over summer, so she can read stuff if she wants but she’s always on the computer or playstation. Scary.
I am going thru something of a metamorphosis at the moment – trying to work out the type of person I want to be when I grow up. Right now, there is only so much I an take – of work, of coolrunning, of all these other commitments.
So I am acting a bit like a monk at the moment – I have withdrawn off to my “wilderness” bolt hole of the RNP and am just doing lots of running, not much socialising and certainly no races. to be honest the main reason I rarely race is because I am not sure I really fit in to the main demographic of most fun runners anymore. Definitely not the city to surf or many of the other runs. I prefer the smaller runs, SMC, Striders, the M7 marathon is good etc. (also because I am skint).
I am thinking of running Willy to Billy though, that’s a good one.
Anyway, on the metamorphosis side. I have decided to cut the crap and just focus on the type of runner I want to be. So I am putting in some additional runs, and making it a higher priority, and a bit more sleep.
I am reading the more about the types of runners I want to be : Anton, Sleep Train and Shogun.
I have changed my diet a bit (more on that at another time). just shifting it up a gear. If I am going to run sub-5 at Six Foot next year I need to get hard core.
Books – I read this cool book by a total wally. or at least I always assumed that Deepak Chopra was a real wally, but his buddha book is just truly stunning & amazing and it really moved me. Now of course it was written like a novel so you never really know if Siddhartha/ Buddha said or thought that, or if it was that Deepak guy, but it was cool anyway. Well worth reading. anyway my reading is going off on a bit of a tangent for now. No dout I will write more about this later.
Music – the new wilco, and the old bright eyes.
Stop apologising for the things you’ve never done because time is short and life is cruel, its up to us to change (That’s the Jam, A Town Called Malice)
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