Small Thoughts for a Quiet World.
Can generate excitement in the early stages. Hard or stressful things kick us into gear.
But when it hangs around it turns into dread. Those chemicals turn into something hard and weary.
Some of that is attitude, we have control over our responses. But it is still something we need to deal with.
I've seen this on my father-in-law's piano for years, but this weekend I started looking at the text more closely. I really love the letter shapes, and the way the whole page was laid out.
I'm not a designer; I like typography, even if I know next to nothing about it. Still, I think this is pretty great stuff.
Ten planned chapters, nine of them have had at least one draft pass.
Granted, I have seventeen chapters planned for Part Two, but hey, progress is progress. #PainlessGit #amWriting
I discovered this album years ago, on accident, on Pandora. And at the time I couldn't find any information about the band “Big Spaceship”, the album seemed to exist in its own quiet, fragile, quirky universe. Big Spaceship made one album, then disappeared, it seemed.
(Later I discovered the rest of the story, but let's leave it a bit magical for now. You can look it up if you like.)
So, what's on this little, peaceful album from outer space?
Well, let's see. It starts with a song about a woman who, in the words of the song:
She She not robot. She She Chantal.
So...she's not a robot. That's nice Not usually something you have to explicitly call out.
The album fluidly mixes cool, weird, electronica with saxophones, silly vocals, and some self deprecating humor:
Then emits...a thunderous applause! [Crickets chirping]
If you listen to only one track off the album before you buy it, start with Find a Place to Land, it's a quiet, weary, but beautiful declaration of need. Somehow, even though it's about landing a spaceship because
It's too heavy on me now
It's still relatable. We all “Gotta put this spaceship down” once in a while, and rest.
It's really our choice what we put out there. We can respond to the overwhelming tide of negativity that seems to be all around us, or we can take arms against that sea of troubles in some small way, and add our own little spots of happiness to the flood.
I'm mostly telling myself this, of course. It's easy for me to be cynical, sarcastic, and jaded. But who does that help? It doesn't help me, it wouldn't help you if you experienced it...It doesn't really help anyone.
So this is my goal. To share things that improve and increase the overall light in the world. This isn't to ignore all the very important bad things that are going on, but to provide a reprieve from them.
I never meant for my main blog to turn into what it's turned into. It's my “public persona”, the version of me that is linked in to LinkedIn and Twitter and the rest. It's not the quiet place.
And I get restless. I tend to shift around a lot. So I have this now. Simple, uncluttered this. Ten personalities, and I don't have to tell anyone which one is linked to which. What simplicity.
So this is the place for things that are me but not corporate me or student me or public me. These are the thoughts that fit into a small space with people who only kind of know who I am.
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