1.6.25 - Beautiful places

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An ode to the beautiful places I have visited this year

Our school

Rathlin Island

Rocarmadour


Rathlin, again

Ballycastle - but we also went to the Giant's Causeway

Market in Brieve

For some reason listening to someone read the audio book of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt makes it sound really annoying and sentorious. and overbearing. He sounds like a total fuddy duddy and quite annoying. Well the whole thing comes across as very dull and preachy - when I know it is not preachy. It is trying to sound an alarm bell about the effect of gaming and screens on children. 

I often wonder what my sons would have been like if they had been state trained. Would they be the beautiful, loose limbed smiling children which I know? Or would they be studious and dull and risk averse. Who can tell?

I do know what I tried to make them NOT be though - I tried my best to ensure that they did not have toxic masculinity as their role models. That they had good role models and where I couldn't provide those, I tried to acquaint them with people who were. In the end, I think they did alright.

I have been some incredible places these year already - from Bordeaux, to Rathlin at its best, the West Coast - it is kinda hard to remember sometimes that I already do stay in a beautiful place. I am very blessed. 

So, these four weeks, any movement regarding goal weight is good. I am just gonna have to buckle down and see it through. I have literally not run for two months now - since March.

Right. Time to things. And I have some many things to organise... but before I do so, I'd like to work out a few things around my thoughts on Gaza, AI and where the life thing is taking me...

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