Some ideas and thoughts I’ve arrived at.
I’m a content maniac.
What I mean is I don’t much care about editing and finessing I just like putting things out there. It’s almost like that “think before you speak thing” in reverse. What I’m really getting at is that when it comes to blogging, podcasting, etc. I just like to put things out there, I’m to impatient to think through what I’m going to say, and I just want to start saying it. I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
I’ve certainly found that when I podcast I come to a point where I run out of things to say, and since it’s recording and it’s just me in the room to fill the silence I sort of mumble and then press stop. It’s hard to just speak (I think it is) and not stop. It’s something I want to work on and that’s one of the reasons I do it.
When I write it’s the same thing. I have no desire to go back and proofread what I wrote, most of you will understand anyways. But what I wind up with sometimes is just a bunch of jumbled mumbo jumbo.
I don’t have a real appreciation of the arts. What I mean is that I can walk through an art museum pretty quickly. I learned that wasn’t a good idea and that I was supposed to sit and let the piece speak to me, and on a good day I can try and do it. I had a great art teacher in college who gave me this wild appreciation for the arts, but a year later I couldnt’ remember what he had told me. I wish I had taken better notes.
All that to say I want to be a better artist myself. I’m thrilled to look at the sketchbooks of friends of mine that they draw in on the bus. I’m so inspired to do it myself, but I rarely take the time to sit and draw. I want to be a better writer, and try to write some fiction every once in a while, but every time I sit down just random non-fiction thoughts come out. I want to try some poetry, and analogies, and emulating some famous writers styles, but I haven’t done it yet.
I’m on a video kick and I want to video tape everything and put it together in a documentary style. Wouldn’t it be cool to tape this!? But soon I’ll be tired of it.
I’m on a podcasting kick too, and I think it would just be the coolest thing to have my own little radio show where people call in and talk, and I have a cool co-host who says all kinds of smart things and I just sit back and pop-in once in a while with a joke (but they wouldn’t be that funny, becuase I’d probably have to find some on the internet).
I want to read, read, read, but I’m too impatient to just sit down and do it. I chapter ten pages long? I don’t have time. The truth is I have time, and what’s contained in many of those books are kernels of wisdom to make my time and life more meaningful. I’ve just been browsing through a teaching book lately, and every page ignites me with a passion for these kids.
I’ve gotten into a chronic habit of checking out books from the library to read, and then renewing them till I can’t anymore and then returning them. I continually keep maxed out the 25 books checked out limit I’ve got about a dollar in late fees to show for it, and I’ve only read the entirity of about five of them.