I Would Have LOVED to Get Postcards From Space When I Was a Kid
I listen to a couple of podcasts about independent publishing. One of them is the Self Publishing Show who recently interviewed Miles Hudson about his writing project, Postcards From Space. The idea is that actual photos from space (copyright free images from NASA and the European Space Agency) are sent out weekly from a fictional kid and their dog as they travel through space.
Junior astronaut Tanno, and their spacedog, Iguda
As a child I would have loved this. I adored reading about space and I was so excited when I received any kind of post. So I subscribed my niece and nephew to it and this is what my nephew thought:
He lives in London and it has been tough going through a year of on and off lockdown because of Covid. They are coming out of it now, but Postcards From Space are something fun to read whilst they are waiting to be able to go on their own trips.
Reasons to Be Cheerful - The Benefits of a Social Media-Free February
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I confess that I have been reading The Luminaries (a book about 19th-century New Zealand written in the language of the same) since Christmas, but until now I have only been able to handle a chapter a day. It's a very dense book and at 830 pages long, I was worried that I would never finish it. Or understand it if I did. I'll be glad to finish it and get on to something lighter for a while.
But yes, spending less time on Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram means that I have more time to focus on my Deep Work and I have more time in the evenings to read. It also means that I don't have the anxiety that comes with not posting to Facebook and not checking for any posts I may have missed. I know I'm missing everything, but strangely I feel a lot calmer about it than when I was checking it every day. If you don't know what you're missing you have a lot less FOMO.