So many blogs, so little time

So, yeah, once again I abandoned my beloved blog for an entire month. That's awful, but the truth is that during that month I've been working in another blog project called The Procrastinator (some) Times.

I use to describe (assume) myself as a professional procrastinator. And the fact is that yes, I am pretty good about it. It is important to mention that I don't necessarily see procrastination as a bad thing, as long as you waste/employ your time in a meaningful way as opposed to watch stranger's wedding photos on Facebook or scroll down for hours looking for memes.

Procrastination, well assumed and practiced, is a valid choice, a way of distributing your time according to the way you know you function better, and a way to look for inspiration in an unstructured way.

Here are a couple of articles that support (somehow) my point: Why Procrastination is Good for You? and Using Summer's End to Boost Your Creativity.

Anyhow. Without further ado, this is the link to this new blog of mine: The Procrastinator (some) Times. I hope you like it, and if you feel like contributing in ANY way (sending interesting links, with a weekly section, sending us photos of your cats, programing a better homepage, etc), please drop me a line.


Have a happy Wednesday everyone!

x


PS. The Procrastinator also have a twitter account, if you want to follow --> @pro_sometimes

It's All About Snow

After the two Los Roques posts this is quite a contrast. Imagine how I feel. Still missing the Caribbean (where I was 10 days ago) but hoping to go out tomorrow in the snow and play. I think is worth to mention that on Monday I saw snow for the first time, and that today I saw snow falling for the first time... on Monday when I woke up the snow was already there, like a belated Christmas miracle. Oh yes, I know how I sound, but you see, I have never got the chance of saying that sort of corny remarks related to snow before, so I'm making up for the lost years :)

While we are on the subject, the BFI shared a wonderful short film called Snow made in 1963 by Geoffrey Jones today in its Twitter feed. Please enjoy and have a lovely weekend! x

Happy Mondays

I want to start this new week with good vibes, and a couple of links:

If you're in London, visit Everything Was Moving exhibition at the Barbican. A very interesting series of photographs from the 60's and the 70's including the works of Ernest Cole, David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide and Larry Burrows.

About the American elections, please see this video of Bill Maher on Romney and the "anti-intellectual, anti-science" Republican freakshow.

Finally to help the victims of Sand in Haiti visit: Universal Giving and the International Rescue Comitee.

The song to fit today's mood would have to be this one ;)

Hope that everyone have an amazing week!

x

Saturday

The winter keeps being really generous when it comes to sunny, beautiful days :)

Now I work a little while listening to this playlist by PeriodicMusik.

Idleness

Yesterday was a lovely day. I met some friends and have a delicious, life-saving lunch in Quimbombo. The lunch then became a tea party, a merienda, a slow walk around Palermo streets, a late afternoon snack in an amazing bookstore, a last coffee, a first wine... and suddenly it was almost midnight. The perfect Saturday wanderlust.

The story of the laziest, more relaxed Saturday I have had in weeks is the perfect scenary to share with you this interesting article that appeared in The New York Times called Anxiety: The Busy Trap. Tim Kreider, the author, talk about how we like to be/appear crazy-busy all the time. Busyness can be seen as a form of existential reassurance in this "modern"/shallow times. I can't help but wonder -Kreider says- whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn't a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn't matter. He also share his ideas about idleness and how, paradoxically, is completely necessary to getting any work done. I really felt totally related to Kreider's words.

“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.” This may sound like the pronouncement of some bong-smoking anarchist, but it was actually Arthur C. Clarke, who found time between scuba diving and pinball games to write “Childhood’s End” and think up communications satellites.

Tomorrow is a national holiday here, so I'm planning an evening with more long calmed conversations, food and friends. Hope you also have a lovely Sunday x