Sep 20, 2018
See the highlights from Spurs’ 2-2 draw with Brighton, including the drama of penalties and sudden death to take home 2 points in the group stage of the Continental Cup!
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See the highlights from Spurs’ 2-2 draw with Brighton, including the drama of penalties and sudden death to take home 2 points in the group stage of the Continental Cup!
Spurs’ Rianna Dean and Angela Addison were named in The Times’ team of the week following the 2-2 draw (and later penalty victory) against Brighton on 26th August!
Both young newcomers, and with Addison new to this level in the game, they are named among a team mostly made of Super League players. Dean is also praised in the text beside the selection.
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Emma Gibbon celebrates with her teammates after scoring the winning penalty on her debut!
26 August 2018
28 minutes at bedtime
There is a definite ebb and flow quality of the mind. It’s true about the mind I spend watching in meditation. That’s my mind I am talking about. Hehe. Last night’s meditation session was effortlessly concentrated on God. Knowing that I am probably not going to get a glimpse of the divine for a long time, I was thinking about the Formless One. The delay will most likely be caused by my subconscious.
There is a concept all of us hold about God. This includes the atheist. To be able to hold the concept before the attention intimately and uninterruptedly, that’s the trick the mind has to be taught. It could be any concept at all. It could be a concept in the making. Meditation is so much about the attention one gives.
Like the ebb and flow of the seas, the mind swells to the surface and then falls into its depths. The falling away from shallow restlessness is supportive of better attention. I was definitely ebbing last night !
Strangely, this realisation about the pattern in which my mind works, doesn’t feel like a victory. It doesn’t feel like a moment worth celebrating. It seems like a natural consequence to meditation. There is a feeling that anyone who meditates will at one time or the other discover this about their own minds. That it rises and falls like a heart beating. There is a rhythm to our minds. ‘Am willing to bet that this phenomenon exists even with dysfunctional minds.
May we all strengthen in concentration.
Girona 1-4 Real Madrid (La Liga, matchday 2) | August 26, 2018 39′ Ramos (penalty) 52′ Benzema (penalty) 59′ Bale (assist: Isco) 80′ Benzema (assist: Bale)
I watched the Black Rock Shooter OVA
And it was okay!
The story’s split into two separate but related tales - a slice of life starring Mato and Yomi, and an action show starring Black Rock Shooter and *looks at MAL* Dead Master.
The slice of life stuff, though fairly generic, is pretty good! While neither Mato nor Yomi have much depth, they’re both endearing enough to be fun to follow for a 50 minute OVA. And it also sells you on their friendship quite well, which is a plus. My biggest gripe with the slice of life stuff is that there’s a jealousy arc, with Mato hanging out with someone called Yuu (who also has an unexplained Black Rock Shooter form that appears for like 3 seconds) and Yomi getting so jealous that she goes missing.
Of course, this slice of life stuff is interwoven with the Black Rock Shooter stuff, which isn’t quite so good. See, we’re given absolutely no context for what that stuff actually is. We don’t know where we are, while it’s obvious that Black Rock Shooter is Mato and Dead Master is Yomi, we don’t know how they got there or why they’re fighting, and just in general it’s a very underdeveloped aspect of the OVA. While we’re supposed to be invested in it since it’s still Mato and Yomi, the complete lack of any sort of expansion on what this world is makes it hard to even care.
Visuals, voice acting and soundtrack were all pretty good. Most of the soundtrack’s just some generic rock music but I love generic rock music so I didn’t mind. Meanwhile the visuals, though they look quite cheap, are at least well animated and they pull out good backgrounds and stuff fairly often.
I’d love to say more but despite the 50 minute runtime there’s not much to this OVA.
I’ll watch the TV anime at one point soon. Maybe tomorrow or something.
If the 22/7 girls already have birthdays and I didn't put them in the calendar I just made I'm going to kill myself