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dawn_felagund

2006 Retrospective

Jan 01, 2007 20:21

Firstly and most importantly, Happy New Year to my flist! May everyone have a wonderful 2007 filled with joy, love, and plenty of inspiration!

I got this idea from pulsarkat, to do retrospective of the last year. I agree with her reasoning that it will be interesting to look back from year to year and see what major events influenced me, what goals have ( Read more... )

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frenchpony January 2 2007, 02:10:59 UTC

Oooh, I remember the plagiarism thing! Laff-a-minute, that one was.

I think the decision to table the online candy shop for now was probably a good one. You've got the candy-making skills, but I think it takes a certain temperament to be a small business owner, and I think you don't have that. This isn't an insult so much as it is an observation. Just from reading the way you think about life, I have the feeling that, if you were to try to turn your love of small-scale artisan candy-making into a profitable venture, you would lose a lot of your enthusiasm for the art amidst the minutae of running the business. Far better to keep your love of candy and make it for friends and family, and still be able to do something else that you want.

I lose myself in the study of human behavior and art.Since this pretty much exactly describes what I do, I'm certainly not going to fault you for it. I don't think it's a bad thing at all, even compared with Morals And Ethics. In fact, I don't think there's much of a difference between them at ( ... )

dawn_felagund January 6 2007, 18:46:17 UTC

Oooh, I remember the plagiarism thing! Laff-a-minute, that one was.

Yeah, that might just win The Oddest Experience of 2006 for me!

Just from reading the way you think about life, I have the feeling that, if you were to try to turn your love of small-scale artisan candy-making into a profitable venture, you would lose a lot of your enthusiasm for the art amidst the minutae of running the business.

Certainly. Bobby was supposed to handle the business end of things while I handled the creative/website end of things. But the reality of two people working fulltime launching a business on their own...especially since Bobby has been stressed in his job to where he just wants to come home, flop on the couch, and play a video game, which is not a luxury he'd have if we'd started the business.

Human behavior and art, to me, are a part of a larger scheme of human morals and ethics, with aesthetics added in. If moral crusaders are on a scheme to change the world, artists are, too.Interesting perspective...and one I like, naturally. Even when ( ... )

frenchpony January 6 2007, 19:30:01 UTC

Not that dressing in a monkey suit and marching with a picket sign can't be a productive way to spend a day. It's just that it's so much more productive when the sign says something like "87% of all statistics are wrong!" or "Down with Evil!" than some anti-vivisection slogan. If you're going to dress up like a monkey, recognize that you will get a certain reaction from it, and plan your monkey-dressing-up around that reaction.

I think that his music, his words outlive even his actions to where they have more of an impact than distant (mis)deeds.Yes! Right now, I'm writing a part where Maglor has to deal with how to tell the story of one of those (mis)deeds. He has to consider how he remembers it, what he remembers, what he doesn't remember, what he possibly never knew in the first place, who his audience is, and what said audience might understand of the complexities of this tale. It won't be easy for anyone involved, including Maglor. But the way he shapes this story now will have a permanent impact, and he knows this, so he' ( ... )

dawn_felagund January 6 2007, 19:47:40 UTC

If you're going to dress up like a monkey, recognize that you will get a certain reaction from it, and plan your monkey-dressing-up around that reaction.*snerk* My personal belief--and I recognized then as I do now that I was a minority among activists in this--is that this sort of protest does very little good. It makes what might be a legitimate issue look foolish. It makes those who care about said issue look like clowns. And it makes people who know nothing about said issue laugh or deride those making a big deal out of it...and walk away knowing nothing new or caring no more than they did before. Possibly--in the event of activists who are disruptive or destructive--caring even less ( ... )

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digdigil January 2 2007, 02:48:17 UTC

First of all, Happy New Year, Dawn! Second, when I perused your year month by month I couldn't believe how fast it went by! I remember reading about all those events and they all seem so recent, it's almost frightening. Anyway, your busyness makes me feel dizzy. LOL. I hope this year will be even better than the last one. *BIG smooch*

dawn_felagund January 6 2007, 18:49:21 UTC

My busyness makes me feel dizzy, all scruched together in few words like that! But it does all seem so recent; I couldn't believe, for example, that that car accident was already eight months ago. It seems like just yesterday that Juno and I were on YIM talking about applying screws to interesting parts of my absconder's anatomy and pulsarkat was helping me fling virtual unsavory substances at him.... :^P

And my grandmother's been gone almost a year? How did that happen??

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dawn_felagund January 6 2007, 18:50:55 UTC

Thank you! :) I think that it will. Already, things are starting to congeal a little: we've started work at the Aquarium and are in the planning stages of our first dive trip (to Bermuda! *squee!*) and will be starting school in just a few weeks. It'll happen.

mirien January 2 2007, 22:12:00 UTC

Happy New Year! There were a lot of things I wanted to say as I read and now they have of course all gone straight out of my head and all I can think of to say is that I hope 2007 brings you closer to those goals you have now turned towards and I look forward to another year of hearing about life chez Felagund!

dawn_felagund January 6 2007, 18:52:59 UTC

Thank you! And I know how that goes about wishing to comment LJ posts...as I'm reading, I think, "Oh, I should say this about that!" Well, by the time I get to say this, I've forgotten it!

And already, we're drawing closer to our goals. It's just a matter of patience...which I admittedly don't always have a lot of. :^P But we'll get there!

ann_arien January 3 2007, 13:27:51 UTC

Dawn, you have done and been through more things in one year than others have in 10, or maybe even a lifetime. You have every reason to be pleased and proud of yourself. Don't worry about the things that were left undone,or partially done. Knowing you and how ambitious you are, it's only a matter of time ( ... )

dawn_felagund January 6 2007, 18:59:00 UTC

*hugs back* Thank you, Alina, this was such a kind and lovely comment. :)

Dawn, you have done and been through more things in one year than others have in 10, or maybe even a lifetime.

Lol, well, considering that most Americans substitute the urge to try or do something for watching someone else do it on "reality TV," then I'll have to agree with you! (And I promise that I won't rant about that now! Promise!) But my belief is that I have one hundred or so years in this big, beautiful world...I want to see it, damn it! :)

I've been through all your backdated Puerto Rico posts but I haven't had the chance to leave comments, mostly due to being stunned by the beauty in the pictures.No worries! I'm glad that you enjoyed them; I enjoyed creating them certainly. ;) We've pretty much decided that our next excursion will be to Bermuda for a few days in March. We'll finish our dive certifications and test out the SeaLife camera underwater. In that way, I hope that I can take you all underwater with me, to begin to show why I am so addicted ( ... )