An idle mind is the devil's playground. In other words, the perfect mental state. Playgrounds are a font of childlike optimism and opportunity and the devil's only vice was the pursuance of knowledge. Unfortunately, we no longer have the opportunity for an idle mind because every other...
COVID-19 makes for strange bedfellows. In quarantine, previously unknown aspects of the people with whom you share a space and perhaps blood can emerge as a result of lack of external stimuli and under a harsher light than usual, because you're dealing with your own aching,...
These are exceptional times and exceptions must be made. We are all trapped inside, largely unused to such extended periods of our own company or, indeed, the company of those we live with. This kind of scenario can bring out the worst in people and it's important...
Self-actualisation is a poisonous concept. And you can see how truly insidious the worded notion of addressing one's true potential is by how many American self-help books and cults and combinations of the two use it often in their weird passive-aggressive parlance. It may seem like...
At least for a few more weeks, we will have to become more acquainted with the sections of our mind we had originally walled off in order for us to be able to deal with the outside world. Sure, we now have access to most facets...
Sipping Drambuie from the Millennium New Year is a perfectly healthy pastime. 10) Taronga TV 5th-11th April What: Wonder what the animals are up to while the Zoo is temporarily closed? It's zoo-as-usual for the 4,000 animals in Taronga's care - and they're giving you a sneak peak! Over the...
Whisky, anyone? 10) Charli XCX: Live 5th April What: After a week off, the pop singer Charli XCX is back for another week of streaming programming. This live Instagram edition will feature a makeup tutorial with Zara Larsson. Why: It can be genuinely heartening to discover the hidden facets within yourself or...
These are interesting times. That's something people used to say when something mildly odd happened as a way to spruce up the slow, milquetoast march towards obsolescence and eventual quiet death we were facing in 2019. Sure, some truly interesting and horrifying events happened during 2019 and...
It can be a difficult proposition seeking to improve oneself as a person during these scary times. Pointless even. The general January attitude of, 'why work on myself when the world's going to end in 30 years due to climate change' has snorted a bunch of...
The edges of one's world inevitably become familiar and smaller once you've peaked as a human in terms of your potential. Even the most apparently altruistic impact-conscious person will make demons of baristas and angels of bartenders, because without that immediate fantasy, we cease to be...