A year of mind
2022 brought time for reading, now in 2023…reading, writing, and making…books are the guiding light for the year. These are a few of the 2022 pages that inspired new creation.
1984 | George Orwell
The Source | James Michener
Space | James Michener
The Undoing Project | Michael Lewis
Three Magic Words | US Andersen
The Secret of Secrets | US Andersen
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living | Dale Carnegie
Not in a favorite or time order, simply a list of words that through the year shed new light on the way I was able to see the World.
For some years, I felt the pause of time where I was reading, was too effortless and that my time could be spent doing something more productive with that time. Now, the hours of reading are the beginning of each day. A whisking away to another world, with inspiration or stories of growth. Mind candy where the thoughts of worry are whisked away and left in the past. Opening the present to be focused beyond pondering over solutions. Often finding solutions in the days’ readings, as if the solution could only come through the time aligned with that particular chapter. Those insights then put into action, replacing worrying ponderings.
Written pages left as marks of wonders, ponders and expressions. Imagine a world where the words of life flow effortlessly from each one of us, where communications are freely shared, no corruption in the moments of top down competitions, but effortlessly flowing, each expressing a life force for building commUNITY together as one. Are we too far along being mindless, has the eloquence of writing been ignored by too many for far too long? I believe the shift can come, through shifting the gaze of mind numbing media to a fascination with problems beyond our mass of society’s current zombie gazes. We’re left with centuries of hand written data pieces, inspirations to reignite our modern thinking, breaking us free from the top down systems that have lead us here. Clearing a moment to gaze at the seeming impossible through story and empowerment of underdog winnings. Seeing the impossible executed as possible through letters and spaces.
Keep creating, keep expressing, life is a story, express your character.