Signs and Water

When thinking about writing, the first place my vision or any part of my principle activity goes is to where I am, what I’m doing. What’s happening around me. I once had an idea for a book, just called ‘Those Around’, literally writing about people around me. It was no more elaborate than that. What happened to the idea, I don’t know. Or I do know. Distraction, distracted from it, for something, from something. I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older that I’m thinking more, that I’m more susceptible to what’s around. Sounds self-defeating and maybe not so much because IT is, but I allow the interference, the obstruction. When we think, we throw ourselves into more thought. Writing should be not only free and freeing, but freed from what’s around the act. Where you are and what you’re doing is certainly a topic or place to start, but don’t allow the immediate elements to topple the topic or sever your start.

Where I am now, after being in office and fitting in a quick haircut, with a beer at a small rectangular table, enjoying time before class. Planning yes but as well training self again to just write and not think. Like the industry I’m in, at the company where its CEO reassures his employees that everything in front of them in the building can be utilized to get them to where they want to be, wherever that is, even if outside the company.