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Starting somewhere
Apr. 6th, 2024 06:49 pmI’ve been thinking about how much I want to write more for ages, and not doing it. Finally, today, sitting home alone while my family is on a trip, I decided to start. I’d never heard of this site before but got here by going down a livejournal rabbit hole — a site I was on for many years, and eventually deleted my journals there, but I still have a lot of fondness for the memories created there, the community and friends I kept up with or made on that platform.
I stayed home from the trip because I’ve been sick, sick for weeks, and the only time I thought I was getting better, I made the mistake of playing outside with my kid. The next day I had regressed and was incredibly ill again, and have only been incrementally approaching “better”. So when I woke this morning and everyone was getting ready to load up the car, I ended up decidIHG not to go. I’m glad for that decision, because I needed this time to think and for my body to recover.
Of course, I just texted my husband telling him I’m glad I didn’t come and describing some of the fun stomach issues that started today and his response was basically “shit I hope we don’t get it.” Which I get, but .. thanks for the sympathy.
One big reason I wanted to start this was that I’ve read several books lately — read, or listened, is there a difference? — I’ve ingested several books recently that I felt did a really admirable job of pulling together disparate sources around a topic, creating new thoughts or approaches in thinking by collating and remixing the thoughts of others. One of these books was “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” and the other is one I’m currently reading, “The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath”. Both very different in approach and subject matter but the thing I am finding I enjoy about both is the way they weave art into their own stories — in “How to Do Nothing” much more about visual art and artistic movements, the latter more about writers and depictions of addiction, but both feel like an impressive amalgamation of sources to me. Pulling together the works of others that have been influential, and creating something new from it. This is something I want to work on and one of the things I want to do here.
But for now just writing this has made me tired so it’s probably time to listen to my sick body and get back to listening to audiobooks flat on my back. Stilll, it feels better to have started than to not.
I stayed home from the trip because I’ve been sick, sick for weeks, and the only time I thought I was getting better, I made the mistake of playing outside with my kid. The next day I had regressed and was incredibly ill again, and have only been incrementally approaching “better”. So when I woke this morning and everyone was getting ready to load up the car, I ended up decidIHG not to go. I’m glad for that decision, because I needed this time to think and for my body to recover.
Of course, I just texted my husband telling him I’m glad I didn’t come and describing some of the fun stomach issues that started today and his response was basically “shit I hope we don’t get it.” Which I get, but .. thanks for the sympathy.
One big reason I wanted to start this was that I’ve read several books lately — read, or listened, is there a difference? — I’ve ingested several books recently that I felt did a really admirable job of pulling together disparate sources around a topic, creating new thoughts or approaches in thinking by collating and remixing the thoughts of others. One of these books was “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” and the other is one I’m currently reading, “The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath”. Both very different in approach and subject matter but the thing I am finding I enjoy about both is the way they weave art into their own stories — in “How to Do Nothing” much more about visual art and artistic movements, the latter more about writers and depictions of addiction, but both feel like an impressive amalgamation of sources to me. Pulling together the works of others that have been influential, and creating something new from it. This is something I want to work on and one of the things I want to do here.
But for now just writing this has made me tired so it’s probably time to listen to my sick body and get back to listening to audiobooks flat on my back. Stilll, it feels better to have started than to not.
