Kurt Degoede

I love Mike Mills’s cookbook/memoir Peace, Love, & Barbecue. Last week, we enjoyed one of our favorites: Big Bob Gibson’s White Sauce on smoked chicken.

Sting and The Roots full of joy performing together remotely. It comes off great and you gotta love the scissors (Link).

Tim Harford’s concept of “Slow Motion Multitasking” as a key to creative problem solving resonates for me: TED Talk “Slow-motion multitasking is when we have several projects in progress at the same time, and we move from one to the other and back again as the mood takes us or the situation demands” — Tim … Continue reading →

I heard the expression “together alone” this morning regarding our state of social distancing, and I immediately heard the beautiful Crowded House track of that name playing in my mind: Together Alone (Crowded House) on Spotify

Speaking of David Byrne – one of the great concert movies: Stop Making Sense ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088178/ )

I grew up in the 70’s falling to sleep with Ernie Harwell doing the play-by-play for the Detroit Tigers – one of the best. With the passing of Al Kaline, I found this old recording of the game with Kaline’s 3000th hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0eo4M5Y-g

I’m not sure exactly how this list will evolve, but for now it will start with recommendations of things that bring me joy. One of my favorite websites has become David Byrne’s (Talking Heads) Reasons to Be Cheerful: https://reasonstobecheerful.world/ . New stories post every few days.

Inspired by Ross Gay and his The Book of Delights, I have decided to try to develop the practice of posting something good or joyful each day. I’ll start with The Book of Delights. Here, Ross reads an entry from the book: “The Marfa Lights”.