Current status:
Appreciating how freeing it has been to write about more than education, technology and productivity on my blog over the last few years.
Setting constraints can help give a project focus but it is important to recognise if the restrictions you put in place are stifling your creativity.
Do not be afraid to liberate yourself from self-imposed limitations.
From my morning reading this past week:
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”
~ 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Holy Bible: English Standard Version
And from Nick Cave last year:
“To truly see someone — anyone — is an act that acknowledges and forgives our common and imperfect humanity. Love enacts a kind of vigilant perception — whether it is to a partner, a child, a co-worker, a neighbour, a fellow citizen, or any other person one may encounter in this life. Love says softly — I see you. I recognise you. You are human, as am I.”
~ Cave, Nick, The Red Hand Files, #103, 2020
And from me to my beautiful wife:
Thank you for your patience.
Thank you for your kindness.
Thank you for seeing me.
Reading progress… update #3
Fiction:
Non-fiction:
Morning reading:
Current status:
Let the clickety-clack((The keyboard is a Keychron K8 wireless mechanical keyboard, with a TKL layout, brown Gateron (Hot-swappable) switches and white back-lighting.)) begin!
“The precipitous time travel of literature never ceases to make my head spin. To discover these things all out of order and yet find them in conversation with each other — so close they could be touching. A thought moving at the speed of light, yet also crawling forward with impossible slowness.”
~ Bellwood, Lucy, Make Haste Slowly, 2021
I, too, marvel at those serendipitous moments when ideas appear to echo across time and place; connected as if they are “in conversation with each other”. It is one of the true joys of reading widely and regularly.