Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I learned a new word thanks to the BBC: hiraeth. It is “a pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost.” It’s a “blend of homesickness, nostalgia and longing.”

Isn’t that a perfect word?

It’s that realization that a moment has passed, and you can never get back to it. Like college—you can revisit the location, and you can visit individual people from that time period, but you can’t get the moment back where you were that age in that space with those people.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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No Complaints (she makes the amazingly wonderful Shedunnit podcast) posted a story of using (and breaking) a special cup. She points to a sentiment that has been guiding a lot of behaviour this year: “Use the fancy stuff … Enjoy it all now, because who knows what trouble is just around the corner.” Everything feels so precarious: why save a bar of chocolate if you could end up with no sense of smell (or taste) tomorrow?

But she also points out the flip side: “If you use it, you have to be prepared to lose it.” Using the nice cup is wonderful, but in using it, you need to be prepared that you may drop it and lose it.

I am definitely in the latter group. I think more about the fact that I could lose it if I use it. Which group are you in? The “use it because there will never be a perfect time” or the “save it because if you use it, you could lose it” group?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Maybe we can’t technically leave our home right now, but we can mentally leave our home with this completely amazing website that pairs radio stations around the world with video footage from a car. So you feel like you’re driving around London. Or Tel Aviv. Or Stockholm.

Or maybe it’s a drone sometimes.

Regardless, you can also change the radio station if you don’t like the one that autoplays when you log into a city.

I love, love, love, love, love this. It’s a life-changer.

What amazing things have you found?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I recently started reading romance novels because I discovered I like happy endings. I like stress-free slides into happiness in the final pages. I just read a very funny book with a very wistful, somewhat sad-ish ending, and I sort of refused to believe the final page was the final page. There needed to be a second ending that was 100% happiness.

Which isn’t to say that I’m only reading happy books. I was just reading The Push. Not happy. But, yes, I really like happy endings.

But I also love this post asking if happiness (or the happy ending) is worth the risk (to honest reality). Life usually isn’t neat and tidy.

What do you think? Do you like happy endings? (Um… not those happy endings. I mean, the kind in books and movies.)

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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The New York Times had a fantastic article about how to tidy up your life, digitally. It went well beyond the usual, low-hanging fruit advice and provided links, breaking down all the places you need to tidy and how to do it.

The nicest part is that it’s split into seven steps, so you can tackle one per day or one per week, and the whole thing is less overwhelming.

Plus, unlike a lot of articles that focus on cleaning up clutter so your machine runs faster or organizing data into folders, all of these steps are about tidying your online life so you have fewer accounts open or browser extensions used.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.