saturday
The question:
29 If you could witness any event of the past, present, or future, what would it be?
I'd like to see Jesus at his Sermon on the Mount (hoping that I could understand the language). Why? Just to see how real it was. I'm not a Christian and don't believe everything in the Bible per se. I'd like to think there was truly a person named Jesus though. What was he really like? What did he really say? The bible is a re-creation by men of what they thought he said. I don't trust explicitly every thing men do.
A damp morning. We got quite a bit of rain in the night though the rain seems to be over for the moment.
*****
Later...
I wrote the above in the morning and got called away. It did rain a couple more times, even a thunder storm but now, 6 pm it's nice and dry.
I got an idea for a handmade book I want to make. I've been wanting to use my colored pencils more but I rarely do. I had an old pad of Strathmore 400 series Artagain paper in the basement in assorted tints. I took the papers out of the pad and now I'm folding the papers so I can sew them into a book form. 12" x 9" papers will make a 9" x 6" book. Thinking that maybe if I have a special book it will spur me on to fill it up. Words, that might become poems; colors and lines, that might become drawings. I'm not going to put a lot of pressure on myself. Just a little doodle with words each day is all I will expect from myself. I need to glue some cloth on the front and back boards to make a hard cover for it, let that dry and then I can get on with sewing it together.
AYOP - A Year Of Poetry. I was looking through my old books and journals today and found this one. I thought I remembered that I had tried to have a dedicated poetry journal once. I started it on Feb 5, 2010 and made the last entry on Jan 12, 2011. That's pretty good. I didn't quite fill it but I did a poem a day for 11 months straight. Not many were good poems but they were attempts at least. I numbered the pages ahead of time for a whole year - that made it more likely to actually do it each day. If I number the pages on this book I'm making now I will be done in 96 days.
29 If you could witness any event of the past, present, or future, what would it be?
I'd like to see Jesus at his Sermon on the Mount (hoping that I could understand the language). Why? Just to see how real it was. I'm not a Christian and don't believe everything in the Bible per se. I'd like to think there was truly a person named Jesus though. What was he really like? What did he really say? The bible is a re-creation by men of what they thought he said. I don't trust explicitly every thing men do.
A damp morning. We got quite a bit of rain in the night though the rain seems to be over for the moment.
*****
Later...
I wrote the above in the morning and got called away. It did rain a couple more times, even a thunder storm but now, 6 pm it's nice and dry.
I got an idea for a handmade book I want to make. I've been wanting to use my colored pencils more but I rarely do. I had an old pad of Strathmore 400 series Artagain paper in the basement in assorted tints. I took the papers out of the pad and now I'm folding the papers so I can sew them into a book form. 12" x 9" papers will make a 9" x 6" book. Thinking that maybe if I have a special book it will spur me on to fill it up. Words, that might become poems; colors and lines, that might become drawings. I'm not going to put a lot of pressure on myself. Just a little doodle with words each day is all I will expect from myself. I need to glue some cloth on the front and back boards to make a hard cover for it, let that dry and then I can get on with sewing it together.
AYOP - A Year Of Poetry. I was looking through my old books and journals today and found this one. I thought I remembered that I had tried to have a dedicated poetry journal once. I started it on Feb 5, 2010 and made the last entry on Jan 12, 2011. That's pretty good. I didn't quite fill it but I did a poem a day for 11 months straight. Not many were good poems but they were attempts at least. I numbered the pages ahead of time for a whole year - that made it more likely to actually do it each day. If I number the pages on this book I'm making now I will be done in 96 days.