So, since last week’s Sunday Salon, I shared two posts here: on a podcast on The Five Remembrances and on 3 Good Things Thursday. I haven’t done much reading, though, and still haven’t finished what was/is supposed to be my first book of the year: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. I’m in the last third of the book, and I’m finding it hard going since he is getting into breathing techniques that are complex and aren’t for the laymen, i.e. me.

I have seven books on hold through Libby at three different libraries: my home library, Free Library of Philadelphia, and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the latter two which offer free cards to anyone in Pennsylvania. However, with the exception of one, the other six are a few weeks or even months out from being able to borrow. The one is The Promise, a part of the Elvis Cole & Joe Pike series, by Robert Crais and even might be available today. We’ll see.

I’ve also been dipping into some magazines via Libby, including a couple of poetry magazines. Maybe this week I’ll finish my first book of the year, even if it’s nothing what I intended.

Aside from reading, and the reason I haven been reading much, I discovered a new show High Potential on ABC and Hulu, which I’ve been binge-watching (some with my wife Kim). It’s based off a French and Belgian show called HPI, which stands for Haut potentiel intellectuel, “high intellectual potential,” an alternative term for giftedness. The main character is a cleaner at a police station and in the process of cleaning, comes across a case that falls out of a folder that she sees something the detectives don’t see. She writes “victim” under the photo of a woman they have identified as a suspect for the murder. It reminds me some, in a good way, of the British version of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

As for what I’m listening to lately, I’ve been going back into my favorites from years gone by (2012) and discovered this gem, a bonus track from Kendrick Lamar’s second album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, a duet with Mary J. Blige:

Lamar coincidentally is the headliner at halfway point for for some big sporting event here in the U.S. tonight. We will peek in from time to time as being from Pennsylvania, we are pulling for the Eagles. Go, Iggles!

So, what have you been reading or watched or listening to or doing this past week? Feel free to share in the comments.

Bonus photo of brunch from this morning: