I'll try anything once (or twice)

I tried a new thing this week: I listened to an audio book. It was a different experience. I read a lot, sometimes voraciously. When you read, you're just doing that- Your hands are full, eyes busy, mind can't wander, and you can't really do anything else. Reading is probably the closest to "being in the moment" as I get, which is funny because reading typically takes me somewhere else.

What I'm trying to say is there aren't many activities that require that kind of focus, seems like we're constantly doing three things at once. The audiobook was totally different than reading because I listened while I worked, my hands & eyes busy with something else. A very different experience than reading.

A friend tells me, "Paper books have sounded their deathknell, mark my words." If that is so, I'll have a hard time with that for a number of reasons. I like the feel of a book in my hands, as if holding it gives me a better connection to it's contents. Also, i guess I'm visually oriented; seeing the words is different than hearing them. I can retrieve information I've seen easier than that which I've heard. There are textbook pages I can visualize from when I was in college. I'm not so sure I'm a good listener. The fact that I can multi task while listening doesn't help matters. I can drink coffee, or munch salad while I read, but that's about it.

I'm trying to think of other things that keep one so wholly occupied as reading does. Sex, probably, though if it's unsatisfactory your mind might wander. Sports, though unless you're really hard core, you're thinking about other things as you're running, swimming, whatever - again, mind can wander. I dunno.

I don't dislike the audio book, it's just that it's a very different experience for me.

Sleepy time- getting up early to head to my mom's and help her get Thanksgiving dinner done. Yum!

Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you're able to spend it with someone special.

Love and water

I said I loved you; it's not true.
Such long swift tides stir not a landlocked sea.
- Rupert Brooke

Light and water

I so love this water color, it captures me everytime I see it. Painting water is painting light.


"Seldovia Boats" by Vladimir Zhikhartsev

Spira mirabilis

Here's another picture of a chambered nautilus. This design simply amazes me.

It's well past my bedtime, but I can't help it. I love the quiet, late hours when it's dark except for the warm pool of light from the little lamp on my nightstand, when I can curl up and escape into my book, when the list of things I -should- be doing has dwindled to one thing: sleeping.

Wonder how it tastes?

Cool article. Shackleton's whiskey