THE WRITTEN THOUGHT
THE WRITTEN WORD
Writing can do different things for different people. It can spark passion. It can relieve stress. It can fuel the soul. And it can bring clarity. For me, writing is the best form of stress relief and also my oldest passion. One that I am now sharing with you...
The Written Thought through Time
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There are few traits that I value more than honesty. Honesty in thought, in action, and in emotion. And yet, in recent years I have come to value love and patience above honesty. Whether it is because I finally see the impact of the brutal, unvarnished honesty of my youth, or because that same honesty seems to demand a higher price as I get older and hopefully wiser, I have come to accept that honesty is not always necessary for the human spirit to find peace. I have learned through time that thoughts can be myriad and mercurial. I have found that honesty must be tempered with patience and must stem from a place of love in order for that honesty to be productive and not destructive.
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This epiphany is what drives me to face my flaws with courage, while I work to honestly highlight the problems that present before our species and what I hope may be the solutions to those problems...
Book Reviews for the Book Worm by a Book Worm
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As far back as I can remember, I have been addicted to the written word, and the images of love and hate, fiction and reality, history and future, and human greatness and human weakness they can paint in the mind's eye. I have often found myself happily lost in other worlds for hours, sometimes days on end. If I were to attempt to tally the number of books I have read in my thirty odd years on this planet, I would likely fail. At one point, immediately after I completed my undergraduate studies, and commenced my postgraduate studies, I read a book a day. Yes, you read that right. I read a book a day for a whole year, at the least.
​I have often been told by the people who know of my love of reading that they envy my ability to so lose myself in these strange dimensions. I have often been asked by these same people how I got started and how do I keep going considering all the distractions life and modern technology have to offer. The answer is quite simple, really. I started when I was young. My first clear recollection of reading books on my own, no prompting required, is from second grade, when my parents bought me a book about a rabbit and his friends. It was an illustrated book with beautifully painted pictures of forest fauna. I distinctly remember carrying that book around with me to whatever parties my parents would drag me to, clutching that book to my chest and wishing I could join the characters in their magical worlds and share in their grand adventures. And it helped that I had a journalist for a maternal grandfather who nurtured that love.
I always meant to share that passion with the world, but life intervened in the form of several false starts, interruptions, and interceptions. This blog is my attempt to finally spread the joy that I find between the rough, rich pages of a book with any who are willing to be swept up with me...
Movie Reviews for the Subsumed Cinephile
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My love of movies and cinema is tied directly to my love of a good story. The stories of everyday people. The stories of extraordinary people. The stories about real life. The stories about fantastical realms. The stories about humans. And the stories about super-humans. I love them all. Movies, like books, have a way of hooking your emotions with the sharp claws of edgy ideas and raw feelings. They have a way of charging into your psyche and life, and running rampant until they've had their way with you, however brief the encounter may be.
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I especially love movies that are based on books. The cinematic interpretation of the abstract verbal world created by an author, visualized through the subjective lens of the mix of makers is fascinating in the way that it exemplifies the persistent conflict between the reaches of imagination and the limits of reality. Exploring that conflict is what we will do should you choose to join me in this quest...
Doing it easy for the DIY novice
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Being a creative person at the core means you look for ways to unleash that desire to create any way you can. Combine that with my love of art in all its varied forms, be it painting or sculpture, photography or film, architecture or interior design, you also get the incessant need to put your own mark on anything generic or mass produced. Having recently moved to an apartment, and designing and decorating that space with love and care. And having been enlisted by family to aid their domestic design efforts, it is only natural that I would experiment with different hacks and novel ideas.
Join me as I attempt all manner of DIY projects in my mission to make things beautiful, functional, and just-right...