Often, we want everything to match, to look the same, to be part of a set that goes together.
But it is so much easier, and can be just as beautiful, when things don't match, don't look all the same -- when each piece, though it shares characteristics with others, does not look like an exact copy of the rest.
Good morning Mastodonians! Whew, I've had a crazy morning already...it's raining, getting windy, and I had to go supervise the setup of porta-johns at the Roadeo course first thing. Still waiting to hear from the tent people. Thankfully it's to be clear tomorrow, so we'll have a good day to run buses through our course.
Well, started the day with a 10k (10.63km to be precise) which was fantabulosa!!
I'm always a bit self conscious when it comes to sharing my running times...mainly because I've had to dial back pace, or else face long spells Injured, and now I run like a tortoise through peanut butter. However today was the best I've felt running for a long time....Hopefully my days writing will be as smooth and enjoyable. #run#running#Malta#FridayFeeling#Motivation#writers#writingcommunity
Puerto Rican music is a blend of salsa, reggaeton and the country's own bomba style. Here's a Tiny Desk concert from El Laberinto del Coco, a collective of 14 singers and musicians, led by Hector "Coco" Barez. "Barez's vision is to dig deep into the African roots of call-and-response with four vocalists and four horn players to remind us throughout its performance of the power of bomba to create community," writes producer Felix Contreras, who is the co-host of NPR's Alt.Latino.
NPR's Tiny Desk studio had never hosted a hardcore punk band ... until Soul Glo. Here's the four-piece's 15-minute set to send you into the weekend, described by NPR producer and fan Lars Gotrich thus: "Hardcore and punk are vital not only in how I understand the world but also challenge myself; it's music that feels first, then screams. Soul Glo crystalizes its anger and anxiety — about trauma, anti-Blackness, mortality, survival — with a pummeling prism of classic hardcore speed, psychedelic noise, sludgy riffs and a spitfire vocalist with exasperated-but-exhilarating run-ons, who finds moments to step back and bounce like an emcee would."
…going about my day and New Order's "Ruined In a Day" comes on, and I have an odd moment of reckoning with the song and my attempt at completing my projects… historically.
Pup has got her priorities figured out and is teaching me! Cosy reading and snuggling. Perfect Friday afternoon. Reading about the chakra system to prepare for my yoga practicum. I have been chipping away at Eastern Body Western Mind over the past few months (I always have at least six or more books going at any given time). Some of it resonates, sometimes I would like a background in psychology to be a little more critical about it. But I am enjoying that it makes me think! #AmReading#BooksAboutYoga#PuppySnuggles#FridayFeeling#Yoga#Chakra#DogsOfMastodon
Thought I would try to recreate the bread I made with my mother in my own kitchen! 👨🍳
I think it turned out well! It smells great! Here's hoping it doesn't fall apart when I take it out of the bread pan cuz I forgot to spray the pan with vegetable oil! 🎛️
Happy #friday
Hand Embroidered #smile with crooked teeth. It's so happy. The fluff is all hand stitched in Turkey work and then brushed with a wire brush. #mastoart#dentist#fridayfeeling