I’m on Internet overload at the moment. Does that happen to you? I kept this (my Internet computer) turned off for a while and only checked email once a day. I wanted to focus inward a little more. Now I’m back, and it’s like drinking a lot of coffee when you haven’t had any in a while. It’s easy to get carried in many different directions and have trouble settling on one thing. There is so much here! Blogs I like to visit, books to research for my reading list, and lots of reading material right here online, not to mention artwork, people, and news. We are incredibly busy people, and it shows online more than anywhere, I think, because it all bottlenecks right at our screens. Once I settle down again I’ll write a real post for this blog.
What I’m thinking about, and may write about:
- Honeybees (interesting social structure)
- Abstract versus Concrete (in thought, artwork, and writing)
- Making Pearls: Living the Creative Life, a book on creativity by watercolor artist Jeanne Carbonetti (I’ve read this before and just reread it, and I’m doing the painting exercises this time, having lots of fun with it.)
- The importance of family stories
- Some interesting people I’ve learned about online
- Our shadows
- More poetry (I have a lot started but nothing new finished at the moment)
But it’s hot right now, and that’s just one more excuse not to be at this computer very much.
