Still kicking
Gorgeous black tulip from the Dallas Arboretum
For the past several days we’ve been hosting Jey’s parents during their U.S. holiday. It’s been a wonderful time, and I’ll update with details and pictures later in the week, as I’ve just gotten a new Canon Powershot (while I wait for a repair to my Nikon SLR).
My main project for the past several months has been preparing the house for this week, and this morning I realized — it’s done. The curtains were hung, the extra towels bought, the clutter (mostly) hidden away. I’ve been putting down all my project ideas into a notebook for weeks, and now I can actually open it and map out what I will work on.
Off the top of my head, first on the list is: make a dress from a tshirt (and post tutorial), make a little camera case (and post tutorial), lay out plan for metalworking study…lots of things tumbling about but I’m trying to exercise some restraint.
I also thought it would be interesting to document what media I’m consuming each week (and maybe compare it to levels of productivity). Or is that too wordy and against my ideas for curation, which involves editing for clarity in presentation? Oh well:
This and last week, we finished Veronica Mars s1 and Carnivale s1, an early screening of ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’, and the documentary ‘Who the (bleep [I don't know how to pronounce that little bleepy symbol thing except to just say 'fuck']) is Jackson Pollock?’ I also read ‘To Say Nothing of the Dog’ and started Naomi’s new book, ‘The Lessons’. At night we’ve been watching Arrested Development on the ipad. We watched the Jonathan Creek Easter special. And we’ve started watching the new season of Doctor Who.
Hum hum
Jey showed me a comment recently from his friend Fi which mentioned that we’d both abandoned our personal blogs, and I looked and found that I hadn’t posted anything since January, and it’s been even longer since I posted personal stuff. I’ve always wished I was a better self-documenter; since I was a kid I was never able to maintain even a personal diary. But I will try to improve that part myself as a facet of my recent resolution to be a better curator of my own life.
So what have we been up to? It can kind of be summed up in our recent travels —
Utah, for the #goforth game. El Paso, for family. Portland, for us. And Austin for work. There’s too much to cover in detail so I’ll leave it at that broad picture for now.
Radio silence
You know how sometimes you let something slide because you’re so, so busy, and then more and more things happen, so you develop this mental backlog of things you’d like to write about and share, but only when you really have the time to sit and devote to it, and then you keep having more projects pop up that require your absolute attention, and you’re worried that if you spend your time writing blog entries you’ll never get around to the writing-based projects, and by that point you’re just beating yourself up for having let it go so long and you don’t know how to even pick it up again?…..yeah.
Food for thought
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative [or creation] there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have believed would have come his way.
– W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition
