Information Overload is the Bane of my Life

My daily struggle is to understand what is important, to my situation, in the constant barrage of information on the Internet.  

What can and should be ignored?  

Is my purpose to seek distraction, novelty and entertainment? 

Or is the goal and purpose to my Net Surfing to gain valuable knowledge?  

What do I hope to accomplish?

“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting."

- Yuval Noah Harari   

  

And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Mister and Lady Day

Mister and Lady Day – a lovely picture-book about Billie Holiday, born on this day in 1915, and the dog who loved her



Billie Holiday-also known as Lady Day-had fame, style, a stellar voice, big gardenias in her hair, and lots of dogs. She had a coat-pocket poodle, a beagle, Chihuahuas, a Great Dane, and more, but her favorite was a boxer named Mister. Mister was always there to bolster her courage through good times and bad, even before her legendary appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall. Newton's stylish illustrations keep the simply told story focused on the loving bond between Billie Holiday and her treasured boxer. An author's note deals more directly with the singer's troubled life, and includes a little-known photo of Mister and Lady Day!

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0152058060/braipick09-20

W. H. Auden

"How should we like it were stars to burn 

With a passion for us we could not return? 

If equal affection cannot be, 

Let the more loving one be me."

W. H. Auden 

The Addiction Labyrinth: The Animal who cannot Sleep

“The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep"
- E. M. Cioran

Born on this day, in 1911

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Addiction Labyrinth: The Animal who cannot Sleep:

 “The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep" - E. M. Cioran ...