"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Friday, November 27, 2009
Addicted to...self jabber?
There's something about jabbering.
I get these thoughts in my head and I just have to spit them out somewhere. For a long time this was the venue, then for a while I tossed them all over Youtube. Then I went over to Facebook, and then Twitter which works only occasionally because I don't think in telegram.
Twitter is more like your Intenet answering machine. "Hi, I'm on the porch now. There's a bug. Beep."
You know, all in all, I still like it here.
It's peaceful here. There's no the cacophany of Facebook or the drama of MySpace. And somehow, over time, most of the mindless idiots have moved on, leaving only the serious thinkers and those trapped in time.
And this is a good clearing house, isn't it? A good place to accumulate all of one's thoughts. If anyone is REALLY serious, they can come here and read you, and know you, and feel you all they like. Years later, another person can do exactly the same thing, maybe stumbling in on a keyword.
(It was all I could do to resist typing a whole list of keywords here for fun so they would trigger in Google, like....oh, you get the picture :) )
Anyway, I thought I would gather some of the writing I have been doing elsewhere over the past year or so, and drop it here over the next few days. And then make sure I keep this spot updated. Think of it as my "General Practitioner" for web musings.
So there. Open wide. Ima jabber.
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