A time-out window to my world
(^Video clicks out to a separate browser, where you see the clouds dance this morning. I have no idea how to ensure a video plays in email!)
When was the last time you looked outside your window? Someone’s likely to say, just before it rained - which was such a reprieve from the past few days of scorching heat in Singapore, but if your laundry was out in that downpour, oh boy..
Hot weather aside, it’s been pretty ideal for cloud gazing and making up funny stories about them. One thing about cloud gazing is that you can’t be wrong about what you decide you see (but please take care of your eyes and wear sunnies!). Sure, I could say that’s an anvil, and you could be snotty and say “cu-mu-lo-nim-bus, hor” and we could both be caught in the subsequent flash rain while trying to outshow each other. But it is a-okay, and we move on to see an elephant’s trunk or a cherub, and be awed by the artwork of Nature. For that cumulonimbus friend, there’s always this Guide to Everything Fluffy in the Sky.
If you think your window view feels a little mundane or doesn’t have the right sort of clouds to blank out about, I’ve been pretty tickled by the fact that you could open up a window in the other parts of the world and sit through a few minutes of Elsewhere while your mind wanders and rests for a bit. Otherwise, here’s a series of Pandemic Porch Cocktails where the mundane (literally 424 photos of the same staging) is comforting. You’re welcome.
Guided prompt (giving you an excuse to look upwards) - feel free to snap a photo from your window and send it across as a reply to this mail :)
Turning the pages
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To relieve yourself of decision paralysis and if you are just in the mood for “someone tell me already!”, there are always book recommendations of what other people are reading. Thanks Grace for the link!
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If books aren’t your thing, and nostalgia could hit the spot, Spotify users could tap on the Time Capsule, where it’s touted to be “the playlist that got you before got you”. I’ll just say that I only listened to The Killers’ Mr. Brightside in the last few years so it doesn’t trigger nostalgia, but Anna Nalick’s Breathe (2AM) was a solid favourite, and someone please, please erase 911’s duet with Fann Wong from my memory.
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And since we’ve moved on to talk about music and memory, this Guardian article about an NHS trial with Alzheimer’s patients and hospital staff was really interesting to understand how using music could potentially manage chronic pain and on managing anxiety and depression in dementia patients. Scroll to the bottom of the article to see some recommended playlists for sample demographics.
#Adulting thoughts
Sharing my latest necessary purchase of a Tineco A11 Hero handheld vacuum that looks like it came off a Tron: Legacy set. Scored a 6/6 deal on Lazada! #aunty Click for potential OST while vacuuming.
My electricity bill is going to be high this month,
Medhā