Recently I ran across a quote by Douglas McArthur that read, " We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction". How true, how true. Perhaps it's the weather or perhaps it's the good old reliable "forces beyond my control," otherwise known as RL, but I've only managed one post a week for the past few weeks. WTF? I take one step forward and then it seems like I hop, skip, and jump a few steps back; then again, does it really matter if I ever do another post in this blog again? Never mind that, I've just hit one of those black patches where nothing I write seems worthwhile to share. I'm going to take a break away from any major writing to see what it is I want to do with this journal. Hmmm. (Skip ahead while I rave at my private pity party. Wah wah wah. End of whine. Carry on.)
In any case, I still want to document my progress with Project 365. These days I'm thinking more about photography than writing, how the light and shadows play on the wall and how nice it would be if I framed it just so in the camera instead of writing about how it looked. This week I focused on still life and composition. It was so much fun arranging the little plastic figures of Leela and Fry from Futurama in different places and trying to tell a story in one glance. I suppose that's why I've never been able to keep a private journal for more than a couple of pages at a time and why I gravitate towards poetry rather than novel writing. I want to describe a mood, an emotion, a thought, an idea, that indescribable something in just so many words or within the frame of a photograph. Does it tell a story? Does it make you smile or laugh or think? Do you care about it? I didn't consciously arrange my still lifes with any or all of these questions in mind but some of "me" comes through in the end and that's what matters.
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Indeed.
Ack, so many words and nothing behind them. All right, enough with the smoke and mirrors. Let's just say that I'm on a journey to find myself through this journal and call it a day. Perhaps it will morph into a photo blog or perhaps it will take a right turn somewhere along the way and turn into something else. Hmm. Already I feel excited about the prospect of something unexplored up ahead. Ha. Figures it would take the scent of the undiscovered to lure me back here. It will be a bumpy ride but it sure will be a lot of fun!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 12:45 AM ;)
It's summer, it's hot, it's hooky time. I'm not sure anyone noticed but I took a week off to recharge and start the great cleanup of 2010. The dust and clutter in my work office finally set off that timer in me that screams, "clean up and throw out the garbage, fool!" Egads! how much crap can one person hoard? 
;)