"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Small Changes
Several times in the last week or so I have had to power through a case of writers block. Where I sit down to write, where I have something I want to write about, where I get started and then just got - nowhere. It is starting to frustrate me. I was in a strange mood last night - almost quarrelsome - and for no apparent reason that I could determine, just because I was. I wanted to run around and poke people with a sharp stick. Not maliciously, well, not totally maliciously. It was more like I was upset by the status quo and just wanted to change things up. I think I should follow up on that instinct over the next couple of weeks. Changing the small items of daily patterns can be a good thing. We tend to think of change only in terms of large scale change, but it is often the small scale changes that have all the impacts. I know that and I need to focus on that and make some small scale changes. Sent via BlackBerry by AT
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