Midlifing
Two friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being human.
Midlifing
Making a virtue out of necessity
Lee and Simon take too long getting to the three questions, which in themselves are the start of a chat about community. Also, Lee edited out all Simon's mentions of Bruce Springsteen.
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
Related links (and necessary corrections):
- We don't know whether we got it right about things that are random vs things that are arbitrary, but we know we shouldn't have even tried to talk about: "randomness is not haphazardness; it is a measure of uncertainty of an outcome": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness
- ipotesi vs assumption: https://context.reverso.net/translation/italian-english/ipotesi
- pressgang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment
- flying freehold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_freehold
- sinto muito: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/portuguese-english/sinto-muito
- mortificare: https://www.wordreference.com/iten/mortificare
- deus ex machina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
- Stephen King's Elevation: https://stephenking.com/works/novella/elevation.html
- Medea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea
- report on Jason Sudeikis's Golden Globe speech: https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/2021-golden-globes-jason-sudeikis-acceptance-speech-watch.html
- Leo Tolstoy's The Three Questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Questions
- browser extension that blocks Amazon, Google and Facebook: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/24/22297686/browser-extension-blocks-sites-using-google-facebook-microsoft-amazon
- Harvard study re 47% (NOT 49% Simon) of our time spent thinking about something other than what we are doing: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/11/wandering-mind-not-a-happy-mind/
- it takes a whole village to raise a child: https://rightforeducation.org/cultures/it-takes-a-whole-village/
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The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
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The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)