How to think about life, death, the past, and more

I have been saving these good links on life, death, the past and more. On a Sunday, when you are thinking about such things, these could be just the links you want to read.

• How can we think about life?
  • Forget 5…we should revel in all the ways we can sense the world: New research reveals humans could have as many as 33 senses
  • I have found this fascinating….how a few generations can span centuries, and what could that mean: The Great Span (kottke.org)
  • Speaking of a great span, 70 Up (and 63 up and …7 UP) covers the great span of the lives of a few kids in England from when they were 7 every 7 years until they were 70: ‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up | Television | The Guardian
  • We might not have film makers to track our lives like those kids, but we can track our own precious lives: Suleika Jaouad’s Journaling Techniques and Advice
  • When you do track your life, make sure you note…What Are You Proud Of? | Cup of Jo
  • And remember, when the rest of the world tries to put you in some version of an Operant conditioning chamber you need to resist

• How can we think about death?
  • There’s much talk of this in Canada. Anyone curious about it (MAID) should read this: What I learned about medically assisted death, who is eligible, and how it works – The Washington Post
  • The great artist Kate Beaton lost her sister early in life. She talks of how it affected her, here: Living Without My Big Sister 
  • Finally: ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’: hospice workers share 12 lessons about life and death – The Guardian

• How should we criticize things?
  • My goto approach approach to criticizing works of art have been based on Goethe’s Three Criteria.
  • There’s a whole rabbit hole you can go down in reading this, which has much to do with criticism: Box Brown on The Cute Manifesto and BORB – The Comics Journal

• How should we look towards the past?
  • The Grim Truth About the “Good Old Days” – Human Progress

• How much should education cost?
  • Maybe nothing?

• How should we think about the things in our life?
  • This is a fascinating look at how the every day is abundant, relatively speaking: Ordinary Abundance
  • Nothing should be wasted: Could This Fish Be a Notebook?
  • But not everything should be kept: 5 Things Professional Organizers Always Get Rid Of First and How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection

• Finally
  • What does home mean. This piece takes a look at that: Biiiiig Stretch