This is my homework.
My favorite part of this photo montage is that all the raw footage was taken with our new DSLR. It's incredible how much I learned about Photoshop even in just the first two weeks of class. I've gone back to re-read one of my favorite books, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, to keep the concepts therein fresh on my mind as I move through this semester. In spite of everything I knew about Photoshop over the past decade or so, my Digital Design professor is still finding ways to make me feel like a beginner.
There is a Taoist saying that reads:
The man who can renovate himself for just one day:
That same man has the capacity for daily renovation.
I created this blog as a repository for all the off-the-wall ideas and concepts birthed by the unorthodox way I interface with the world. The slogan I coined, "one man's ignorance is another man's bliss" is a play on the old adage, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." It speaks to the idea in 1 Corinthians 1:25 - something to the effect of "God's foolishness is wider than man's wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than man's strength." Basically, I'm placing myself in the position of the fool who follows behind the wise, collecting the discarded scraps of insight that they leave behind as they walk their paths.
I'm learning how to let my mind be creative so that I don't have to. Whenever a problem presents itself, I simply acknowledge and accept the problem, take a second to commit it to my subconscious memory and let it percolate for a few days. Then one day as I go about my daily tasks, the answer jumps out at me like all those annoying pop-up windows we hated so much in the late 90's.
So, around this time every month, I'm going to start pontificating on what my goal for the next month should be. Since I realized this halfway through the month, my goal for the rest of February has been to get myself onto a regular schedule to keep dishes, laundry, trash and litter box taken care of. That hasn't been that hard, since I've pretty much already been doing that. I have a few ideas about my March goal, but I need to spend more time in prayer about it.
To tie this all together, I've had plenty of opportunity to stoke the fire of self renovation, and I've been squandering it. So, come March, I'm getting serious about getting serious. ...again.
We'll see. I've also been spending just about every car trip recording (upwards of 10 hours of) my thoughts into my iPhone. Expect to see a separate blog page dedicated solely to the [uncensored] transcriptions of these recordings.
This is all for now.
-R.
Thus the name, "A Fool's Gold."
I don't think I've ever explained that.
I'm learning how to let my mind be creative so that I don't have to. Whenever a problem presents itself, I simply acknowledge and accept the problem, take a second to commit it to my subconscious memory and let it percolate for a few days. Then one day as I go about my daily tasks, the answer jumps out at me like all those annoying pop-up windows we hated so much in the late 90's.
Well, the other day, I was smacked in the face with one such idea. I realized that midway through February, I started slacking on the whole "living life in HD" thing. Seeing as how I was hoping to spend the entire year improving in humility and discipline, I've been seeing this as a 87.5% failure. I should have seen it as a 12.5% success. The answer that hit me like a ton of marshmallows* was simply this: set twelve one-month goals instead of one big, vague sweeping New Years resolution.
So, around this time every month, I'm going to start pontificating on what my goal for the next month should be. Since I realized this halfway through the month, my goal for the rest of February has been to get myself onto a regular schedule to keep dishes, laundry, trash and litter box taken care of. That hasn't been that hard, since I've pretty much already been doing that. I have a few ideas about my March goal, but I need to spend more time in prayer about it.
To tie this all together, I've had plenty of opportunity to stoke the fire of self renovation, and I've been squandering it. So, come March, I'm getting serious about getting serious. ...again.
We'll see. I've also been spending just about every car trip recording (upwards of 10 hours of) my thoughts into my iPhone. Expect to see a separate blog page dedicated solely to the [uncensored] transcriptions of these recordings.
This is all for now.
-R.
