Streak's alive. Still have written every day.
Rode bicycle to work yesterday and today - that streak alive too - ride at least 2x a week to work. Up to 50 miles in January and well on my way to 200 by April 15 - roanoke100miler. Rain expected tomorrow - maybe I'll ride again on Friday and then Monday or Tuesday.
Feeling crusty - tired and expending way too much energy on just getting through the day.
Thanks to 9to5 Mac I bought duet tonight and can share my Mac on my iPad for an extended display. Pretty cool.
Carry on....
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Sunday, January 25, 2015
ROW Check In Number Five
Helvetica tonight for the play I saw last night - Helvetica at Mill Mountain Theatre.
Another four days, another four entries. Keeping after it. Getting deeper into The Wire and The Arcades Project. To a touching funeral today - Penny Siegel - Jackie's mom.
1,700 private jets in Davos. Time for a revolution.
Another four days, another four entries. Keeping after it. Getting deeper into The Wire and The Arcades Project. To a touching funeral today - Penny Siegel - Jackie's mom.
1,700 private jets in Davos. Time for a revolution.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Check In 4
Well it was a better Wednesday than two weeks ago, I think. I haven't seen or read much news today - heads down at work from early until late - a quick dinner, and dashed down a few words and the streak is in tact still. Something put down about life every day. Today and yesterday rather light, but sticking at it.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Check In 3
Kept up the pace until tailing off this weekend - a paucity of words Saturday and Sunday; but tomorrow is a new week and we'll get on track again.
Spent the day (finally) organizing pictures on the computer - consolidating 13 year of photos in one place and starting to pull them together into meaningful groupings and taggings.
Spent the day (finally) organizing pictures on the computer - consolidating 13 year of photos in one place and starting to pull them together into meaningful groupings and taggings.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Getting Going
Check in 2; still keeping after it. Not really keeping a common string of thought but beginning to pull some disparate but related strands together. The goal is keeping me engaged with the writing and that is sustaining some decent thinking, if not writing.
I've been thinking a lot about mockery. Mocking someone. Mocking something. And also thinking of something a friend of mine once told me - "we don't have the right to not be offended." If something offends me, I can choose to ignore it or do something about it. But I'm not sure there is anything that guarantees that I am not to be offended.
The something that I choose to do about it should be within the law - that is, I shouldn't hurt someone who has offended me. I shouldn't hurt someone bodily. Can I inflict mental or psychological pain? Can I offend the person or the thing back? I don't see why not.
What is the fundamental thing at stake? To not be offended? To be honest? To be clear? To be accurate? To make a point?
Somehow I think wanting to be 'right' is near to being the fundamental point. Wanting to be considered more accurate or more learned or more 'in-the-know'. Don't we all want to be right? Don't we all want our worldview to be valid? To be not discounted?
When I was in college and in a fraternity - I think I was a pledge at the time - the fraternity football team won the campus intramural football championship and we pledges thought we'd make a banner touting the victory in a smug, rather pointed way. The members of the team took down the banner - they didn't feel that was an appropriate way to celebrate the championship.
When I was in high school, our principal would not allow any signs or cheers that were about the other team. We were not to cheer against the other school - we were to cheer for ours.
These may not be stories exactly about mockery, but I think there are aspects of mockery in each.
So there is a tension within me, within everyone - here's a quote from a book, a very important book to me - The Necessity of Empty Places by Paul Gruchow - p. 148 in my copy:
Why indeed?
On to the next check in.....
I've been thinking a lot about mockery. Mocking someone. Mocking something. And also thinking of something a friend of mine once told me - "we don't have the right to not be offended." If something offends me, I can choose to ignore it or do something about it. But I'm not sure there is anything that guarantees that I am not to be offended.
The something that I choose to do about it should be within the law - that is, I shouldn't hurt someone who has offended me. I shouldn't hurt someone bodily. Can I inflict mental or psychological pain? Can I offend the person or the thing back? I don't see why not.
What is the fundamental thing at stake? To not be offended? To be honest? To be clear? To be accurate? To make a point?
Somehow I think wanting to be 'right' is near to being the fundamental point. Wanting to be considered more accurate or more learned or more 'in-the-know'. Don't we all want to be right? Don't we all want our worldview to be valid? To be not discounted?
When I was in college and in a fraternity - I think I was a pledge at the time - the fraternity football team won the campus intramural football championship and we pledges thought we'd make a banner touting the victory in a smug, rather pointed way. The members of the team took down the banner - they didn't feel that was an appropriate way to celebrate the championship.
When I was in high school, our principal would not allow any signs or cheers that were about the other team. We were not to cheer against the other school - we were to cheer for ours.
These may not be stories exactly about mockery, but I think there are aspects of mockery in each.
So there is a tension within me, within everyone - here's a quote from a book, a very important book to me - The Necessity of Empty Places by Paul Gruchow - p. 148 in my copy:
"There are two large approaches to life. One is to know your enemies clearly and to poor your energies into nullifying them, into scorn and satire, cynicism and protest, into the arts of nay-saying and emasculation. The other is to know your enthusiasms and to give your energies to celebrating them, to praise and thanksgiving, curiosity and wonder, to the arts of affirmation and lovemaking. Both approaches can be moral, intelligent, forces for betterment. But one is so much more beautiful than the other. Why should it be so easy to make the uglier choice?"
Why indeed?
On to the next check in.....
Sunday, January 11, 2015
ROW80 - First Checkin
Good start for me. Though I didn't officially jump in until this week, I have written daily since 1 Jan. Around 4,700 words, which I suppose for me is pretty good. I expect, from prior experience, the word count will gradually increase as the wheels keep rolling.
It's noteworthy to me that I jumped in on 8 Jan, the day after the carnage in Paris, Charlie Hebdo. Freedom of expression is at the top of my thoughts as it has been since learning about it. It challenges me to stay on task with my goal but to also consider how to exercise my freedom of expression more genuinely, to take my writing that I'm keeping after, away from my desk and my desk alone.
Thanks for this encouragement.
Thanks for this encouragement.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
ROW80
A little late to the 2015 show, but I'm in; to write SOMETHING everyday for 80 days. Here we go. Thanks for the impetus and hope I keep it going.
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