More To Come

There's nothing quite like making a long story short and if not short then shorter.
It is a great favor to one's readers.
Getting to the point, getting to what you are really feeling is what matters most.
Some of us have the capacity to go on and on. In my case it is a learned behavior.
When I was young, when everything I wrote was created like poetry,
my words were always brief and clear.
It took hours or days to write even a short piece, but I never wasted words.
Learning to fill, adding lots of detail,
and presenting things very circuitously is the direct result of academic training.

In some ways it is like my experience with drawing. I was actually better back when I was about thirteen than I am now.
I have to work and work to get to that level of directness and literal accuracy.
Some of it is being out of practice.
I don't draw every day, in every spare moment the way I did then.
Now I tend to write, in the various notebooks more often than here on the computer.
That is my raw, naked self-portrait usually done on a daily basis.
Sometimes there are many entries in a single day. It is my Zen practice.
Very little makes it out here to my blogs.
The editor cuts a lot, but I write way more than before.
I am becoming more and more liberated, consistent and disciplined as a writer.

The reason for writing this blog is to be completely fearless, in at least one aspect of my life-
to be able to show whatever it is completely, without any holding back.
The material which does make it to these pages does (I think and hope) fit that definition,
but I wish, I hope that more material will begin to appear here on a regular basis.

This is my most general portal of expression. I have some other more specialized blogs. When something new is presented, it is often launched here as well as on its own venue. I haven't really tried promoting exposure much, but it is a beginning.

Here are my other current offerings:
http://lowtidedesparados.blogspot.com/
http://lostandfoundinakayak-driftersjournal.blogspot.com/
http://alchemyfineartanddesignpatina.blogspot.com/

More will follow. Additional material is in development which deal with educational practices that are responsive to the interests and needs of students, poetry, and strategies for dealing with the stress of modern life.


I will be back to work on my day job soon, which is a source of inspiration, but also a limitation on my Wide Open time which is Summer. Mentally, I go back on August 27th.
It will be an informal, but work-related gathering. I am looking forward to getting together with people who have become very close friends, and getting to know some of the new staff better as well, but even so, with the impending end of Summer on the horizon, it makes me long for more time here in the Wide Open territory. There is much to write.