Back to School !

Holy Crap.

I was up at four a.m. I think I slept a grand total of three hours. I got a drive with my neighbour who dropped me off at the Irving. I picked up a coffee and paid the rude grumpy, girl behind the counter. I ask myself, why to rude people work in the service industry? I say people get another job! I just wish I could get the nerve to say it out loud to them!

I didn't have to wait too long for a ride and a very nice truck driver stopped. He said he'd spent the last 22 years in Israel and was originally from Russia. He said he didn't like the Summer weather all the time in Israel. I thought on that a minute and about prying the icicles from my arse.

Well I have fifteen days within the month left to finish school.

We had our in progress critique today for Open Media and I got some good ideas regarding my final project which involves my late husband's writing and my long hand journals that span from 1972 up to the present. Someone suggested I scan them both. Good idea!

Good thing I got my painting done over the weekend, it's due on Thursday.

On a totally unrelated topic, I hate house work.

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968

Writing Everyday

Why you should keep a handwritten journal.
I have been trying to be very diligent in posting every day, but honestly not always writing. It is a different kind of journaling when you sit working from a computer. I recently heard a news item that said neurological science has proven that those children who are fluent in writing long hand, had actually developed parts of their brains that enable better brain function and with those of an older age can off set dementia and keep the brain active. There is also a link to an increase in creativity with the development of the the process of actual hand writing.

This is great news and it confirms and further explains to me why I have held the belief that writing long hand is such a beneficial exercise . If it is done on a daily basis well then it stems to reason, the more you do it, the more of a benefit it would have. That said, here I am writing on this here darn computer and think I need to get back to writing long hand again. The temptation of writing on the computer is a strong one. The computer is an escape of sorts and regardless if what I am doing resembles work. I have noticed quite acutely as of late, since I have been daily blogging as part of a daily project, for my Open Media class that my regular long hand journaling has gone by the way side in many ways, though I am still writing some, just not nearly as frequently like I was. So, I need to make a concerted effort to get back to this. I have discovered writing long hand is a way of anchoring my life, because I have something tactile that has a physical commanding presence, that the virtual world does not really offer me. I think this enables and forces me to see myself, and helps me to grow as a human being.

I'm off to do some long hand writing in my journal.

Mid Life Journal

I was running through the blogs I subscribe to and the great blog, The Mid Life Journal I started to read and found this lovely drawing from a book called, How To Make A Journal of Your Life . I haven't read it or heard of it. But I sure liked the picture on the cover.

Well I had enough of this day. Going to get horizontal.