At some point I remember realizing that the more you put yourself out there, the more connections you make with life events, and the more things will just end up happening in your life that you didn’t plan on. These events can be good or bad, but the point is that the more you put yourself out there and do things, the busier your life is going to get, often in ways that are unforeseen and can often feel uncontrollable.
We moved to Portland about six months ago with the idea that we would be more active, that we would do more things. And my vague/hard to understand theory above has certainly been holding true. We haven’t had to put ourselves out there much more to make things much busier and have a lot more going on. This is mostly a great thing, but somedays it all feels uncontrollable and I feel the need to check out for a day and sleep in bed with a good book–which is probably why I’m currently reading bits and pieces from a big stack of different books. A bunch of little stolen moments in an effort to calm down my constantly stirring brain.
I’m still in a bit of awe at how much busier things got without a whole lot of effort on my part. If you go out and tell the world, ok, have at me! Apparently, it listens.
I had an emotional and crazy day with a number of events I could tell you about, but instead, I am going to tell you that you should really watch this Zombie Proposal video, all the way to the end.
Lately I’ve been finding it difficult to distribute my time-it never, ever, feels like there is enough of it. Between the time I spend stuck in bed, sick, and the time I spend working on other things, it’s hard to make sure I give enough time for writing creatively some days, and I hate that.
Today I was trying to write an article when I had to pull out another sheet and let my brain get down a story idea I was having. It’s all about lightbulbs…ok, it’s only sort of about lightbulbs. Most importantly, it’s fun.
I have this story I’ve been writing for months, two of the main characters are named Sam and Nick. I have a “Sam and Nick” playlist on my computer that I listen to and let my mind wander off to different places where my characters are living and breathing.
I’m trying to keep a normal sleep schedule, where I sleep at night and get up early in the morning, but I think H.P Lovecraft put best why it is I have difficulty with this…
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.
H. P. Lovecraft
I’ve got hundreds of photos, but I just picked out a couple to share on flickr today. I took all of these right after we got out camera around the building where we live.
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