No Thought For The Week - Issue #4

Hello to new subscribers and thanks to this week's contributors of the Creative Nudge weekly newsletter. It's good to have you here and so encouraging to read your responses.

On Thursdays, I invite my connections to share a "THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK"

"Sorry I don't have any," wrote Jason Arbiter.

"Thank you for not sharing your thoughts today," I replied.

"It’s a pleasure. I’ve got loads of the same non-thoughts I can share."

Nobody else responded, something in the air.

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Playlist For March

from Love's Labours Lost by William Shakespeare

When daisies pied and violets blue

And lady-smocks all silver-white

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

Do paint the meadows with delight,

The cuckoo then, on every tree,

Mocks married men; for thus sings he,

Cuckoo;

Cuckoo, cuckoo: Oh word of fear,

Unpleasing to a married ear!

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,

And merry larks are plowmen’s clocks,

When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,

And maidens bleach their summer smocks,

The cuckoo then, on every tree,

Mocks married men; for thus sings he,

Cuckoo;

Cuckoo, cuckoo: Oh word of fear,

Unpleasing to a married ear!

(via Poetry Foundation)

Learning Space

We need to get over our human self-centered outlook. The Maslov pyramid is actually a circle, not a climb to optimal self-gratification.

When the crow whisperer appeared at the side gate to Adam Florin and Dani Fisher’s house, in Oakland, California, she was dressed head to toe in black, wearing a hoodie, gloves, and a mask.

I believe #neonicotinoids have no place in a #wilderfuture, so I've joined @wildlifetrusts in calling on the Prime Minister to overturn this terrible decision.

“A crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase,” Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker wrote in his wonderful modern guide to style, “are among life’s greatest pleasures.

The Adventures of Manny Kay

Nick The Teacher

Nick is an English English teacher living and working in east London. I like lots of different things, including English and teaching. Which is a result!

3 Sentence Book Reviews

"The Seven Sisters" by Lucinda Riley.  An amazingly laid-back book that pulls you in and keeps you hooked. With no sinister love stories or gory details. via Nadia Best

"Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. It's by the leading sleep neuroscientist in the world. Easy to read and understand. Full of powerful and effective life-changing strategies, via Phil Shepherd

Geek Stuff

When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open. In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images.

Weird Nostalgia

"Google Tame Alligators. I was so excited to read about them because I went to see them in their house with Granny Stamp when I was about 5 years old. Pete didn’t believe me. Granny used to visit them to collect insurance and perhaps do her chiropodist job. The house is more or less opposite Carol and Ron’s I was so excited." said my Mum

Potato Gathering

"I love the fact it's nostalgic," said my brother-in-law John.

Fun Nudges

"Or are they brownies?" Cath Whittaker

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Some-things Lovely

The film tells the story of a boy who rather spends his time indoors playing videogames instead of discovering what’s waiting outside. One day his Mum decides to get a little surprise for her son, which makes it hard for him to concentrate on his video game any longer.

Sidney Poitier presenting Julie Andrews the Oscar® for Best Actress for her performance in "Mary Poppins" at the 37th Academy Awards® in 1965. Introduced by Bob Hope

Be supportive and helpful to all those concerned. Stop and reflect on how you have grown

Always nice to receive. Who do you appreciate and have you told them recently?

Thought For The Week

nobody had any

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And Finally

And A Bit More Finally

Please respond to this week’s issue with your Creative Nudge(s), maybe you’d like them to be included in an issue too.

Until next Friday…

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