Daily writing practice
2022/7/3 Some very few things are interesting decades later, but most are only interesting in the very near term. Today's lunch, this quarter's earnings, current news or the vast majority of it, creative works even: music, film, & fiction. Non-fiction based on the 'latest' findings of a rapidly changing field are especially short lived. Still, the influence of these things live on well after.
2022/7/2 #poetry For me, making pasta seems easy. But if I had to grow the wheat and harvest the wheat and process the wheat and mine the ore and smelt the metal and forge the pot and gather the stones and build the cookstove and gather the wood and get the water and light the fire and feed the fire to boil the water to cook the pasta I wouldn't think it was so easy.
2022/7/1 #poetry Seems like I made it. It wasn't so hard. I was tested but I passed with flying stars. I made good and I felt good, I've got real talent it seems. If I can keep it up I should achieve all my dreams. Open to the moment, adapting as I go. Incorporate the new but also stick to what I know.
2022/6/29 #poetry Sometimes, even before you reach the edge, you know you won't be able to stop. The cliff looms up and you take to the air; with acceptance, poise, and hardly a care. You never know what'll happen after that, the free fall is just a metaphor. Inevitability is only ever actualized in hindsight.
2022/6/26 #poetry Well, I repeat myself too, but if I want to be listened to I have to listen first. It works better. More people are willing to play. If you see someone's eyes glaze over and you keep on talking who does that serve? I know it can be hard to stop. Sometimes what you are saying really excites you. But there's an art to conversation and you ignore it at your detriment.