I may have too many hobbies. Or maybe I'm just bad with time management?
I've been trying to keep momentum with Screw City Food Co-op business. It gets a lot easier when I don't let myself get too attached to specific outcomes. Recruitment has been dismal, and maybe that's okay. A core group of us have been working on smaller, more immediate projects that should help get us more name recognition and connections in the community.
Music has kept me busy lately. I've been either practicing covers or adding to collaborative work for at least an hour most evenings. My old band Go Nova has been working on some new material (though we might release it under the Cloudkill name)
Obviously, I have not kept up with writing several blog posts per week. That's probably okay. January was a test, and I can keep adjusting. Jotting down little ideas has had diminishing returns---it's not as satisfying after the first few.
I've had an idea floating around in my head for a novel in the realistic fiction genre. Reading about the death of the Man of the Hole last year left a deep impression on me. He had lived by himself in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest since 1995, when the last of his indigenous tribe was killed by illegal miners. I imagine few have experienced that level of tragedy and isolation. For some reason it feels like something deserving of exploration.
Maybe I'll write more about that later. But my point is that even thinking more about writing, and engaging in the activity at least weekly, seems to be getting some wheels turning in my brain. Getting my thoughts down feels good, but exploring the thoughts of someone else might be an even greater boon.
So I guess things aren't so bad. I just need to focus and persevere.
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