Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hello, how are you I am fine thank you, and you? I am fine thankyou. I am live in Espain now for over 6 years and I like share my brain thinkings with you, of the lives in Espain, no? YOu listen me! I explain you! Are you worry about your doggy? Is your dog to you most important thing like…
This is what I come home to every day… Chunky couldn’t give a shit if a lesson I tried to teach bombed today, or that they’ve just completely changed the format of the test I’m preparing students for and it’s super annoying. Animals, and especially pets, couldn’t care less that there was this annoying customer at work today, or that you…
The point of writing (whether just for yourself or publishing it) is to document what you do, why you did it, and then reflect on it to see how it went. And it’s also to make sense of the mess. Your mind is full of random thoughts, things people said to you 6 minutes ago, 13 years ago, 4 seconds…
What’s your relationship to drinking? Do you do it to relax? Or for clarity? Or to treat yourself for doing something well, working hard or doing something physical? (This was Socrates’ approach to it.) I’ve done or do all of the above at some point. But is it possible that in the future they’ll laugh that people, once upon a…
This was Chunky after rolling around in the sand down the local beach today: But you think he gives a fuck he has sand all over his face and between his eyeball sockets, looking like some bread crumb-covered weirdo? He couldn’t give a fuck. There’s a reason that our eyeball sockets have stayed in the exact same place since caveman times,…
This is Chunky. And Chunky could give a fuck about the past or the future. All that he gives a shit about is RIGHT NOW. Though his past behaviours, training and experiences have shaped how he behaves, all that shit doesn’t matter now. What matters is how what he’s become is able to be present right now. And isn’t that…
I’m hitting the road for a 20-hour roadtrip today to hang out with my brother in the Victorian high country. And I’m taking my dog Chunky. Now… I’m pumped about it and when playing with Chunky I’ve told him many iterations of how pumped I exactly am about it. You know: ‘We’re going on a roadtrip, Chunky.’, ‘We’re heading out…
Bliss n Eso just came out with a new album (oh, it’s a banger alright) and this is a line from Moments: The only thing we really own is our memories. In the last year, my dog Chunky’s chewed his way through about 10 cushions, a few shirts, a couple footballs, a hockey puck and a TV remote (some of which were…
In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius talks about how to see everything for how important it really is, by taking ‘Plato’s view’. That is, specifically a bird’s eye one. It’s best to take a birds-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets—all blended…
When you’re picking up dog poo in the backyard, it’s important not to look for the poo –it’s to look where you’re stepping. It’s just like life,