Robert C. Day's Blog, page 38

Music of the Spheres

Like massive humming tops in space,the planets eachemit adifferent tone, and together, they create a musical harmony – much like a solar-systemly choir.

And if you believe that, you’re not as bonkers as it might seem.NASA (the North American Space Agency)detected, way back in 20003,sound waves 57 octaves lower than middle-C ‘rumbling away’ from a supermassive black hole in the Perseus cluster – so there you go.

Do you know how easy it is to write music? It’s an absolute piece ofcake! It’s inc...

The Four Noble Truths

I bet that if Buddha had gotten his head screwed on right he would have gotten into the songwriting game instead of messing about with seven whole years of mortifying his flesh and all that dread business. I mean, really? That some kind of radical diet, dude!

Here are four songs that Buddha might have wished he had written in order to more effectively illustrate his Four Noble Truths:

“You can’t always get what you want.” (The Rolling Stones)
“It’s just an illusion, illusion, illusion.” (Im...

flibberty-gibberty

So, what’s the difference between trust and faith, apart from that trust is a verb and faith is a noun? The answer is that you can trust in things that you can see, but for things that you can’t see, you need to have faith.

What kind of things can we see? Well, that would be anything physical. This actually ties in nicely with the fact that trust in a verb – a ‘doing’ word (as they used to tell me at school). You can only do things with physical objects – things you can see or touch. And as I...

Rhythm Method

Imagine that the rhythm of your life is like a wrecking ball –moving ponderously backwards and forwards, round and around. Imagine thatthis solid mass is nowswinging towards you and you want it to stop at the exact place that you’re at.Here are some options:

Stand in the path of that huge weight and try toseizeit and keep it there Wait until theballis where you want it to be and then savour that moment Jump on top of that ball and let it take you on a journey to wherever Find a better metap...

Blues #01

(partially inspired by this post: https://vermontloonwatch.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/day-by-day-582/)

Nirvana

Nirvana or ‘snuffing out’ is the state of enlightenment achieved when karma and craving are extinguished –clearly nothing at all to do with the Seattle grunge scene.

Writing can become an addiction, much the same as any other, and when it reaches the stage where it’s affecting your health, peace of mind and relationships with loved ones, maybe it’s time to take a break.

Here are the warningsigns that writing hastoo tight agrip on your throat:

Stealing. When you get home from work it may be w...

Soothe Me

sugar in my system
too much chocolate
solow for movement
belly too stretched out
head too high for doing

they can’t hear me
need toturn me off
noise ofthem talking
shouting inside to stop
impossibleto accept them

people to pleasure
somany things to do
too small to help them
too full of contrariness
always people expecting

against my desires
lists and tick boxing
ordered andsorted me
how very dare they differ
a clockwork world is mine

pain in my neck
sloth in my limbs
swollen little finger
te...

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me,

Happy Birthday dear Robert,
Happy Birthday to me!

Versatile Blogger Award

Thank youto Deirdre at https://wordsareallihavesite.wordpress.com for presenting me with this award earlyin April 2016. Thanks for you kindness and ever cheerful support, Deirdre –apologies for the length oftime it took me toreply to this!

Thanks go to Mary at https://mbryant613.wordpress.com/ for presenting me with this award towards the back end of April. Sorry it’s taken me so long to get there, Mary – thanks again.

The Rules:

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Vegetarianism

Did you know that Pythagoras (yep – the triangle guy) invented vegetarianism, and that before the word was coined in the 1840s, non meat-eaters were known as ‘Pythagoreans’? Nope – me neither – because he didn’t – he was just the first important person to advocate that diet. But still – that bit about ‘Pythagoreans’ is true.

Some diets make you perform better than others, and others make you think better than some. So if you want togetcreative with your thinking and doing, you might find that...