Resolutions: May Report

This month I decided to read Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind, which I associated with my lunch hours in Berkeley back in the early 1980s. I probably hadn’t read it then, just his Mind and Nature, and I was always daunted by the prospect of reading this one, so I did, although it took me most of the month. Then yesterday I also watched the DVD An Ecology of Mind, which Nora Bateson made about her father. Imagine having a dad who is 65 when you are born and who dies when you are 11! I always thought my mom’s dad, Grandpa Ben, was rather old, and but Bateson was 8 years older than that for his daughter and her father, not grandfather. And then imagine that your dad is someone who tried to change the world, in a deep and thoughtful way – I can see why she wanted to make a documentary about him. He must be mythic to her. My commitment for June is also related to J’s trip to Berkeley and Oakland – I plan to read Tommy Orange’s There, There.

As for games, I didn’t play any more of Nightshade, though I intend to. Yesterday I finally started a new one from my backlog - Subnautica, although I only played it for 9 minutes. I got through the spaceship pod crashing by not looking much at the screen, and then I found a menu of controls but don’t know what to do, so that was that for now.

No lentils, ha.