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Goodreads presented me with a neat overview on my read books in 2017 you can also [take a look at](https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017/5451893). The dull page statistics are of no interest to me, but the kind of books I've read do tell a story that might be worth sharing.
When it comes to keeping track of what I read, Goodreads might be the best thing that happened to me yet. But I can't say that I'm a consequent user of my own listage. I love browsing through books in libraries and bookshops, and that might mean a book or two gets added to my "toread" list. It might take up to two years before I acutally start reading it. I am what you might call a "chain reaction reader": someone who starts reading something, finds something related interesting to that and continues ot read on the same subject. At least that is what Goodreads tries to tell me.
When it comes to keeping track of what I read, Goodreads might be the best thing that happened to me yet. But I can't say that I'm a consequent user of my own listage. I love browsing through books in libraries and bookshops, and that might mean a book or two gets added to my "toread" list. It might take up to two years before I actually start reading it. I am what you might call a "chain reaction reader": someone who starts reading something, finds something related interesting to that and continues ot read on the same subject. At least that is what Goodreads tries to tell me.
2017 has sharpened my knowledge (as far as reading a book goes) on these rough categories: art, food, programming, philosophy. Oh yes, and I finally managed to finish Robin Hobb's Assassin's Fate. The meager 3 books I've read on programming (they were all bad) and food (they were even worse) are not worth mentioning here, which reminds now me to focus more on those subjects in 2018.
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"Let's try to keep silent for a minute and enjoy the complete absence of traffic noise!" I yelled to my friends. We were standing on a sandy hill in the middle of national park "Hoge Veluwe". One of our friends, a biologist, enticed us to help him identify animal tracks in the sand. I don't know anything about even-toed ungulates, but I know a bit about the joy of discovery. <br/>
"Great idea!". I closed my eyes and smelled the very beginning of spring.
"Great idea!". I closed my eyes and smelled the very beginning of spring. <br/>
A few seconds passed.<br/>
A few more.<br/>
"Woah there I can't shut up for more than ten seconds!" muttered a few. After a lot of laughs, everyone forgot about the pathetic attempt to create some silence and carried on with snapping pictures and posting them on-line.
Maybe a big sign upon entering the park that states "cellphones forbidden" would help. Or carrying decibel meters or something like that. But people seem to be preoccupied with whatever they are doing every single day, without one single break, not even on a short vacation. I sometimes feel the sparks of flow and wonder, but they never stay long enough for me to fully enjoy until I look back. I wonder if others feel it too. I doubt my friends were doing that - especially after discussing the ugly car we drove by half an hour ago.
When I drove home form work today, I took the liberty to dismount my bike and walk through a forest I pass every day. The difference between cycling through and walking through is huge, and then I wondered: what if instead of walking, which seems to be an improvement, I simply stop, and stare? The low winter sun and the clear sky combined with light green grassy hills soaked into my mind. I start to notice details. The contrast between the shades of leafless dead trees and the setting sun. The puffy seed pods of the weeds. Things I would not notice while walking, let alone biking.
And yet by biking to and form work, I'm an exception: most people drive. The higher the velocity, the more my mind wanders. I'm convinced this doesn't only happen to me - mindfulness proves that.
When I drove home frim work today, I took the liberty to dismount my bike and walk through a forest I pass every day. The difference between cycling through and walking through is huge, and then I wondered: what if instead of walking, which seems to be an improvement, I simply stop, and stare? The low winter sun and the clear sky combined with light green grassy hills soaked into my mind. I start to notice details. The contrast between the shades of leafless dead trees and the setting sun. The puffy seed pods of the weeds. Things I would not notice while walking, let alone biking.
And yet by biking to and from work, I'm an exception: most people drive. The higher the velocity, the more my mind wanders. I'm convinced this doesn't only happen to me - mindfulness proves that.
![pigs in the woods](/img/pigs-in-the-woods.jpg)
Warthog spotting in the woods...