betterment
I'm always working on this one goal to be a better me. Already I think for better or worse that I'm very me which is a good staring off point. Buckminster Fuller had a project to see how much good one person can do for the world. I think I am working to the same goal, especially if as many people as possible work on it from the same angle. With that I am pledging:
A) Movement. This summer I am in Fluid Movement again. This year my scene requires a bit of dancing. I am to put it in a phrase I made up "Kinesthetically challenged". Yes, you might have seen me spin fire or sway some what rhythmically with a keytar. I just don't know how to move unless I have painfully worked it out beforehand or have learned with hard reminders of being hit with flaming wicks. Ironically I have lots of dancer friends and I am in constant awe of how they work with movement on so many levels. So many of them just say "Move how you feel". I usually feel like hiding in the corner with some musical instrument until I know how the song works and adding that part. I know some people who have earth shattering kinesthetic breakthrough, but they seem rather emotionally challenging. I will wear that rock down slowly.
B) Writing. kazoogrrl and friends keep telling me that I should write more. I'm pretty sure that I haven't written a functional paragraph sense high school. The last time my writing was evaluated for school I was told "Write more like a list". Personally I don't like reading lists, so the advice is some what dubious. I think some of my observations are humorous and worth sharing in a format longer than a tweet so I will keep up with the journaling. From there I could share some of my thoughts in an essay. After that, fiction? I'm told that I'm pretty imaginative, but do I subject made up people to that and real people to my descriptions? I think writing an essay to be more committal and almost bossy compared to my personal narrative style. Still, I am going to write here more often and not just after I traveled.
C) fin. I nurse projects along for a long time working in fits and spurts. There is a trap I see called process that I will avoid. Specifically meta process where I work on the idea and never get around to finishing because the idea is more engrossing and perfect than a finished project. My friends that are productive don't talk so much about how they do things but about just doing them. In the interest of productivity I'm going to end this post and work on something rather than talk about working on it.
I think all of you are talented, damn nifty, beautiful and inspiring people and are all walking the same path I am.
A) Movement. This summer I am in Fluid Movement again. This year my scene requires a bit of dancing. I am to put it in a phrase I made up "Kinesthetically challenged". Yes, you might have seen me spin fire or sway some what rhythmically with a keytar. I just don't know how to move unless I have painfully worked it out beforehand or have learned with hard reminders of being hit with flaming wicks. Ironically I have lots of dancer friends and I am in constant awe of how they work with movement on so many levels. So many of them just say "Move how you feel". I usually feel like hiding in the corner with some musical instrument until I know how the song works and adding that part. I know some people who have earth shattering kinesthetic breakthrough, but they seem rather emotionally challenging. I will wear that rock down slowly.
B) Writing. kazoogrrl and friends keep telling me that I should write more. I'm pretty sure that I haven't written a functional paragraph sense high school. The last time my writing was evaluated for school I was told "Write more like a list". Personally I don't like reading lists, so the advice is some what dubious. I think some of my observations are humorous and worth sharing in a format longer than a tweet so I will keep up with the journaling. From there I could share some of my thoughts in an essay. After that, fiction? I'm told that I'm pretty imaginative, but do I subject made up people to that and real people to my descriptions? I think writing an essay to be more committal and almost bossy compared to my personal narrative style. Still, I am going to write here more often and not just after I traveled.
C) fin. I nurse projects along for a long time working in fits and spurts. There is a trap I see called process that I will avoid. Specifically meta process where I work on the idea and never get around to finishing because the idea is more engrossing and perfect than a finished project. My friends that are productive don't talk so much about how they do things but about just doing them. In the interest of productivity I'm going to end this post and work on something rather than talk about working on it.
I think all of you are talented, damn nifty, beautiful and inspiring people and are all walking the same path I am.