morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
What would you change about modern society?
The education system ought to gear itself to train youngsters in neighborhood appreciation.
Neighborhood includes geography, history of the neighborhood, trees, plants, animals small and big, minerals, public works, sources of water et al.
In India we have been very very poor in doing this.
What do you listen to while you work?
Whom are you supposed to listen to while you work?
I listen to my senses, to my body, to my moods… How else does work happen!
What’s your go-to comfort food?
Sweetened milk with some bread slices.
Chewing on book titles along.
Sometimes just scrolling through the titles fills my tummy.
Is filling the tummy this way comforting?
Tough question in a way.
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.
Evolution
Algorithmic Operators
Selection
Crossover
Mutation
Are you seeking security or adventure?
If I could decide such things so very deliberately, would I enjoy security or adventure, what I decide upon?
This classification doesn’t work.
Even the most secure cannot not let the adventure creep in.
Now, more arduous than climbing Mt Everest turned out to be cleaning the dump on and around Mt. Everest.
If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?
I tend to talk quite a bit over dinner. I would invite the most avid book reader around, and also an arresting book reader, Kindle audible-like, to read to me while we chomp on the amazing food, and before chomping, and after chomping too.
I like this idea of dinner. May host plenty such dinners, if…
What time do you go to bed and wake up currently?
I watched the Spain vs France match late into the night. Woke up at 7:40 in the morning, primarily because a solitary fly that sneaked into my room kept irkingly crawling on my skin.
My ideal sleeping time is 9pm. And waking time is early in the morning just after sunrise. There is a reason this blog is named morningboy.space.
This question feels odd by the use of the word ‘currently’. On the first reading, feels like a usual question. Ponder a little, that ‘currently’ feels so wrong. Do you think about the question before jumping to answer it?
What is your favorite genre of music?
That’s like asking what’s your favorite background.
No, I don’t mean to say that there can’t be a favorite background.
I choose to take a certain route that is more scenic towards any destination in my city.
Sorry, I do mean to say that there cannot be a favorite background.
Can there be a favorite subject or foreground?
I liken the earrings I sell to songs quite often. But songs aren’t music all the time. I surely have favorite earrings.
What are you most worried about for the future?
That the future would dampen my enthusiasm.
What makes a teacher great?
Hypotheses
Experiments
“Let’s try.”
These make a teacher, and a non-teacher too, great.
How do you practice self-care?
Plenty of ways to practice self-care, now that I ponder over the question.
First, I felt, by reading.
Second, it struck me, by rummaging through plenty of titles to find the most intriguing titles to sample new books.
Third, the most convincing one, by being whimsical, in everything I do. With or without showing anyone what I do. That restores my faith.
Fourth, by giving a lot of time one fine day to self-grooming.
Fifth, stepping out to run, no matter the weather.
I am an Indian citizen. So let me tell you the way I see things here, triggered by the word ‘country’.
Yesterday morning I could capture a sentiment this way:
Gormint is a country which rules another country that is non-gormint.
Gormint = Government
So let us read it all over again:
Government is a country which rules another country that is non-government.
Right now, the situation has pinned into this country called government. I do not quite like, even if I can appreciate it in some way. I am here to stay for some time it seems. See you.
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
A China-made HERO fountain pen.
My reading desk.
A little plastic case which holds my credit cards.
Is WINDOW a thing? And the sliding-bars curtain on it, is that also a thing? Do these 2 make the count 5?
What are you passionate about?
Finding amazing books.
Or rather, looking for arresting titles and then sampling those books.
What is your favorite season of year? Why?
Morning is my favorite season.
Sun is out, mind is alert and ready to work on the newest ideas, body is energetic and often itching to break into a sprint, anticipation for my one and only coffee of the day is high. I recall some dreams from the night. Morning offers so much.
Morning is my favorite season.
Describe your dream chocolate bar.
I can describe chocolate bar of my dreams… Does it mean dream chocolate bar?
So it is a huge disc, not a bar, with a hole like the one that fits into the upright stub of a gigantic turn-table. And then it rotates like a music disc, with men and women attempting to dance on this rotating chocolate disc and their feet getting stuck in the gooey chocolate and then they find themselves falling into the chocolate, and licking it instead of getting up on their feet to dance…
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Debt – David Graeber
Sorting Things Out – Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
Consciousness & The Breakdown of the Bicameral Brain – Julian Jaynes
The Myth of Mental Illness – Thomas Szasz
Exactly – Simon Winchester
Loonshots – Safi Bahcall
Even going by the titles of the jobs I’ve had, I can list quite a few. But that’s the problem. It is so so so boring to recall each of those titles. And then as if my listing the job titles shall make you understand what I’d be talking about?
Let me just say, for the last 13 years, the job has been to survive and offer sterling earrings with the hope of looking at beautiful faces every day. Does that sound like a job?!
As part of that, I’ve had to learn photography and shoot a lot of earrings, and collect a lot of cameras. That’s been painful and entertaining all the same.
Do you practice religion?
Some times questions baffle me. Or just some words in the questions.
Say, after you answer in ‘yes’ or ‘no’, what is even left to say? Is the question answered? It may feel like the question is answered but it doesn’t feel like one has answered it well enough. No?
Imagine these questions instead:
How do you practice religion?
How far do you practice religion?
How deeply do you practice religion?
Is there something called non-religion?
Can a non-religion be practiced?
Is it possible to not practice a religion?
O, thank you. Enough of this. It is just a blogging question. What are you talking about. 4:25am and the crows and cuckoo’s are awake. I can hear their calls. I could hear the crows even at 2:30am actually.
Do you have any collections?
Does this question sound a bit odd in the way it is framed?
What do you mean ‘do you have any collections?’
Of course, I do. Everyone does, intentionally or unintentionally.
Check www.mississippiearrings.com.
And then there are books.
And a collection of moves as well.
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