Hanging pictures is not my forte. They usually end up too low, too high or lopsided. That along with the copious, probably visible marks on the wall as I try and measure where to place the picture and too many holes as I make up for afore mentioned mistakes, usually sees my wife going in search of someone else if something needs hanging on a wall in our house.
All of this left us in a quandary over a picture that had been lying around our Alcácer house for good while.
I keep playing Between Two Points from David Gilmour’s new album Luck & Strange. While it ends with a signature guitar solo from Gilmour, it is the beat of the song alongside the hauntingly beautiful voice of his daughter Romany Gilmore who sings, that draws me back.
Between Two Points was originally recorded by The Montgolfier Brothers, who I had never heard of. David Gilmour has kept with the spirit of the original, though it is his version that pulls me back again and again.
Well things change.
Back in July I shared how after six months using Kagi search, I didn’t feel that the benefits over my previous search engine of choice, DuckDuckGo, were sufficient to justify carrying on paying for Kagi.
In the last couple of weeks I have reversed that decision and am now back using Kagi as my primary search engine.
Why the flip flopping?
DuckDuckGo, for all of its privacy features, felt to me as though more ads were creeping in to the search results.
I watched a film unknown to me while flying from London to LA last week. Daddio, staring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, with no other cast apart from extras in the background. 95% of the movie takes place in a taxi, maybe more? Johnson and Penn just talk. They had me. 🍿
These images are a week old. Over the course of a day these rainbows greeted me on the day after my return to Maui. Hawaii is known for its rainbows. Last Wednesday the skies over our corner of the island excelled themselves. 🌈
We watched My Neighbor Totoro a couple of nights ago with one of our grandsons. It was the third or fourth time that I have seen the film. I love this Ghibli movie. I find it beautiful to watch. There are pauses throughout the film, sometimes with some sounds playing, sometimes just silence. The audience is left waiting for what will happen next. It is not suspense, but a pause and unless you know what is going to happen next, one is left not knowing when the pause will end. In this day and age pauses can often be filled with noise. In My Neighbor Totoro we simply have to wait in silence. What will happen next will happen in its own time.
There is not only the lovely Ghibli scenes, but in this animation I love the magic associated with those scenes. While the animistic element might appeal especially to Japanese culture, I believe that it taps into a part of all of us that sees beyond the world that we can see and touch, whether it is something that we chose to name and acknowledge or not.
“I have never lost a bag,” I proudly and gratefully told my wife as we shuttled from one terminal to another while in transit at Heathrow Airport. We were on a bus, zigzagging around buildings and aircraft, occasionally disappearing underground. Nearing our destination we passed some open doors giving us a glimpse into the maze of conveyor belts which carry passengers’ luggage to and from the aircraft. I’m like a kid in a candy store at airports.
