I’ve been looking at things lately, and there’s something about which I’m unhappy. Well, rather than turn this into a rant, I’m going to do something about it. You see, lately I’ve been checking my email more often, about once an hour while I’m home or at work. I don’t get that many emails, only a couple people email me with any regularity. But it begs the question - what did I do before email, and why do I check it so often?
It is with great pleasure that I announce that I’ve had another article published in Ave News, a bi-monthly metaphysical newspaper published locally in Columbia, SC, and surrounding areas. Unfortunately, the article I wrote is not available online - they only select 3 articles from the issue for online publication, and mine is not among them. However, if you are in the Columbia, SC area, please pick one up.
This is my second article published in Ave News, and I had several published in a now defunct paper published in Pensacola, Fl, called The Light. Perhaps I’ll run a series of posts that are reprints of the articles I’ve had published. For now, I’ll just celebrate getting an article published again. Hopefully it’s a sign of great things to come.
I know I haven’t been writing as much lately, about once a week or so, I’ve been quite busy. It’s quite possible that my blogging may become even more irregular for the next few months. It occurred to me the other day that the Palmetto Fall Clinic is just 5 months away - meaning my black belt test could be just 5 months away. Problem is, I haven’t really gone to class the last couple months, so I may not be ready for the black belt test in November as I planned.
I was watching a movie last week, before my week without tv experiment started, the very bloody and epic Kill Bill Vol. 1. A few days ago I was driving to work, thinking about the sequel, Kill Bill Vol. 2, and the scene where Elle Driver is reading to Budd as he’s lying on the floor, dying after being bitten by a snake. She’s reading from a notebook and says the work gigantic - which she loves but rarely gets to use. So this got me to thinking about words that I like but don’t use very often in day to day writing or conversation.
I was writing an email to my girlfriend earlier this evening, in which I expressed doubt about wanting to be a writer, or what I should do. I’ve noticed a tendency in myself over the last few years, to discard most of the things in my life if I didn’t think I could eventually do it for a living. I’ve actually become frustrated with this approach, even though it has helped me reduce the number of things in my life to a manageable amount. Of course, it does suffer from the singular drawback that a lot of things aren’t much fun any more, and I’m working on a solution to that.
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In which an element essential to success of projects is discussed, the need for one,
the benefit of the other, and the difference between them.
In which writing and sound reasons for wanting a laptop computer are discussed.
In which decisions are reached, and a path is chosen.
I know it’s a little early to be talking about next year, but as much as I wanted to write another post, this one keeps thrusting its way into my consciousness, demanding to be written.
I wrote the first part of this at Riverbanks this past weekend, then finished it up last night and did some significant revision tonight. So without further ado, here is my latest piece.