The Difference Between Effective Action and Activity the new post on The Listening Room H – The Polymath sister site and my men’s practice – is a follow up of The Difference Between Action and Contact. It talks of when life feels overwhelming, more activity isn’t always the answer. Learn why effective action, discernment and rest often create real change. It can be read on The Listening Room HQ site:
https://www.thelisteningroom.com/2026/07/the-difference-between-effective-action.html
Capricorn Full Moon, June 30 – The Things That Continue is my new post at The Polymath site. Between the Gemini New Moon and the Capricorn Full Moon, what quietly continued? Reflections on tending what remains alive, creativity, the sea, conversation and the slow work of growing a meaningful life. You can read it at The Polymath site: https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/06/capricorn-full-moon-june-30-things-that.html
Field Notes – Solstice Roads my new post on The Polymath site is Field Notes from a Solstice journey between Porto and Lisboa. A day of buses, trains, sea water, unexpected encounters, a lost scarf, and the quiet arrival of summer. It can be read here.
The Difference Between Action and Contact, my new post at The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice and The Polymath sister site – approaches the difference between action and contact in men’s lives. How constant doing can replace presence with self and others, and how real connection requires staying internally present even within action. You can read it at The Listening Room HQ site.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #98 – The Of Summer & Football edition is broadcasted Monday 15 and 22 June, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
Summer is around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, the 2026 World Cup is on. The Of Summer & Football edition has nineteen songs and one instrumental that speak of both. The Summer songs aren’t all necessarily season specific.
The Wedding Present’s Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft of from their album George Best, Manchester United’s (in)famous right winger
Billy Bragg’s God’s Footballer is about
Peter Knowles a forward of
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., better known as Wolves.
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John – Summer Nights classic from the film Greece is a perfect Summer evening dancing song. Along with the surfy Peter Gunn by Duane Eddy.
The Smiths’ Golden Lights is a cover of English singer-songwriter Twinkle’s 1965 single, and in itself as little to do with Summer.
New Order’s World In Motionand Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds’s Three Lions where written with England’s National team in mind, while
Belle and Sebastian’s It Only Takes One Lion is their 2026 song for Scotland National team.
As usual on the Summer and Winter programme there’s a cover of The Mamas & the Papas do’ California Dreamin’, this time by José Feliciano.
Tracklist:
01 – Tom Joseph – Brighton
02 – New Order – World In Motion
03 – Frank Rabeyrolles – Bossa In My Heart
04 – The Wedding Present – Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
05: Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Under A Cat
06: The Fall – Kicker Conspiracy
07: National Death Industry – The End Of All The Things We Do
08: Belle and Sebastian – It Only Takes One Lion
09: Calvin Harris – Summer
10: Animal Collective – Goalkeeper
11: Saint Etienne – Nothing Can Stop Us Now
12: The Smiths – Golden Lights
12: Waaves – King Of The Beachaaa
14: Rod Stewart – Touchline
15: Duane Eddy – Peter Gunn
16: Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds – Three Lions
17: John Travolta & Olivia Newton John Summer Nights
18: Billy Bragg – God’s Footballer
19: Weezer – Island In The Sun
20: José Feliciano – California Dreamin’
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud / | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
Gemini New Moon, June 15 – The Things That Remain, my new post at The Polymath, is not an ordinary astrology post.
It starts with real every day life things, a song – The Irish Goodbye by Bernard Butler – conversations, a exhibition – Sentimento Monocromático (Monocromatic Feeling) by Gustavo Sanches de Castro, a poem – Na Spailpíní Fánacha (The Wandering Spailpín) read by Ian Duhig – a radio show – RTE Arena 100 – to arrive to what, for me, endures.
There’s pigeons, swings, sliders, ice creams, conversations too. You can read the full post here.
Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic is my new post at The Polymath site.
After more than twenty years away from ocean swimming, I returned to swim in the Atlantic. Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic is a very personal thing, and post, to mr. Sea swimming, bodily memory, presence, the North Atlantic coast of Porto, Foz, rediscovering a relationship that had never truly disappeared. You can read it here.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #97 – The Of Sea & Cake edition is broadcasted Monday 1 and 8 June, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
You can read my text about the programme here.
Tracklist:
01: The Sea and Cake – Four Corners
02: Dhani Harrison (Live at George Fest) – Savoy Truffle
03: Air – La Femme d’Argent
04: Queens Of The Stone Age – Monsters In The Parasol
05: The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave (Stereo/Remastered 2001)
06: Deerhoof – Milk Man
07: Cake – Distance
08: Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator
09: Brian Eno – By This River (2004 Digital Remaster)
10: Lupe Fiasco – Cake
11: Can – Vitamin C
12: Everything But The Girl – Temperamental
13: The Sea and Cake – Parasol
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud / | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #97 – The Of Sea & Cake edition is broadcasted Monday 1 and 8 June, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
For some reason I had the programme title for a while. Probably, because of Sea and Cake, the band that opens and closes the show. Since I recently went ocean swim again and I like cake, it was a perfect match. Ideas and life catching and matching up.
The songs and instrumentals aren’t necessarily about cake, sweets, or the ocean, although enough are. Like Savoy Truffle written by George Harrison for The Beatles’ White Album is literally about chocolates, and was written for Eric Clapton and his love of said sweets. For The Of Sea & Cake edition I picked the live version Dhani Harrison singings his father’s song.
The Beach Boys’ Catch A Wave is another literal song, this time about the ocean and catching a wave to surf.
Tracklist:
01: The Sea and Cake – Four Corners
02: Dhani Harrison (Live at George Fest) – Savoy Truffle
03: Air – La Femme d’Argent
04: Queens Of The Stone Age – Monsters In The Parasol
05: The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave (Stereo/Remastered 2001)
06: Deerhoof – Milk Man
07: Cake – Distance
08: Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator
09: Brian Eno – By This River (2004 Digital Remaster)
10: Lupe Fiasco – Cake
11: Can – Vitamin C
12: Everything But The Girl – Temperamental
13: The Sea and Cake – Parasol
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud| Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
Full Moon in Sagittarius, May 31: The Difference Between Knowing and Participating the new post on The Polymath site speaks of on creativity, culture, astrology, symbolism, and exploring the space where knowledge becomes participation. It can be read here.
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