So there hasn’t been a lot to write about …
… Except, my wife Trish recently worked with a film maker whose name everyone knows – more about that when it comes out.
… And I worked with a couple of film makers as yet little known, but with a very lovely auxiliary result, details here at my day job blog: https://colinmcphillamy3.substack.com/p/quantum-carpets
So there’s that!
It was Earth Day yesterday (April 22nd).
A few years ago I established a Facebook page called Green Ideas
The idea was simply to propagate environmental solutions without activism of any kind.
The global polarity we are currently living through does not, it seems to me, render minds receptive to new ideas through challenge.
But the fact remains that ideas are contagious.
I admit to having left Green Ideas to its own devices only posting infrequently myself. But now there are more than 200 members internationally and one member in particular, an actress with whom I had the pleasure of appearing in Our Town, has taken a great interest and has contributed substantially by posting frequently.
Big thanks and big love to Char Plotsky!
It remains my view that the bees and the butterflies are in need of help and protection, that renewable energy will come because it must come, and above all we cannot wait for the politicians to catch up.
Please share/join/plant a tree!
All kinds of interesting stuff over there!
As I continue to morph from actor to astrologer, I’ve started two new social media accounts.
One is BlueSky, as I understand it, the thinking person’s alternative to what used to be Twitter – find me there – @colinmcphillamy.bsky.social – short form posts
And then a weekly longer post at substack, find me there: @colinmcphillamy3
Please take a look!
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
The Space Merchants by Frederic Pohl and C M Kornbluth
Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke
Shikasta by Doris Lessing
Quantum Physics for Dummies by Andrew Zimmerman Jones
The Constitution of The United States of America
Each of these titles has something to offer in terms of what is happening on the world stage. To me, the first three seem especially prophetic.
Then we enter the wonderful world of sci-fi. The late Dame Doris Lessing says that sci-fi writers are to literature as illegitimate children are to families.
And I put Quantum physics for Dummies in there because I tried to read it when we did Copenhagen ⎯ Chris Oden, Beth Dimon and I ⎯ I struggled through about 4 pages ⎯ but I did get the incredible insight that a particle can also be a wave, and that has been a comfort ever since.
The Constitution is something I’ve dipped into, and am now resolved to read it properly before it’s too late.
And to these literary offerings I now add my own long form blog at Substack
As posted elsewhere, I’ve been following Richard Hester’s excellent “Posts from the Upper West Side” for quite some time ⎯ this actor blog doesn’t seem quite the right venue for actor/astrologer narrative, but I think Substack could be. Rather than re-post my first entry here ⎯ well, just click the link if you are interested!