Poetry - and Grace Lewellyn

Last Saturday:

- After a terrible end of week, I look forward to some poetry session in the eve. Before that happens I meet up with bro and almost give up the poetry for drinks and masculine stories...man, am I GLAD I stuck to the script! That poetry session was truly something. Them youngsters have lots of feeling and brain in their bodies. It made me want to sit up at night and write a few lines myself. Which I shall. Soon.

Sunday:

- So the poetry ends and Sunday is with me again. Sleep, sleep and more sleep. Awful. However, late afternoon I head off to the 'Flame' with Grace Lewellyn's book underarm (The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to quit school and get a real life and education). Best book I've bought in ten years. I've already read it once, now I'm taking tiny bites and chewing them thoroughly. Came out of that session with a calm spirit and resolve in my heart. Follow my dreams and do that NOW. Not tomorrow. Now.

Today:

- I can boldly testify that yesterday's Lewellyn session worked. I've had quite a productive and relatively peaceful day. Read lots of intense stuff on wedding photography. Who knew something so mundane sounding could be so deep? One website made it sound like calculus! However I ain't discouraged in the least. I'll just get a good mentorship and that should do me loads of good; better than any photography class. That heavy book on photography at Lifestyle wouldn't hurt either.

- Let me summarize with my Theme for the Season: Like Thoreau, I want to "live deliberately...and suck out all the marrow of life..."

Some light - but I'm still in '09

- New year huh? Not for me. Still in '09 mode. Haven't quite gotten a crystal clear vision of the first step to take into the new dispensation. HOWEVER, I just had one really solid thought about where my frustrations stem from:

Most of what I read is not in any way relevant to what I do! My vocation and hobby(s) don't have as much as they should in common! At last I've articulated it. Punched it right in the nose. What's the point of endlessly educating myself on culture, education, photography, cinema, etc. if it only ends up as interesting conversation? How incomplete! That stuff needs to be put into practice. Study and apply: the best way to educate. So the dilemma now is where to begin. My strongest urge is to begin with photography (which seems simpler to elbow my way into). I must get me some leads pronto. As in this week...nil procrastination.

- Is this the end of 'pure' eye-tee for me, for good?

- The woman: she definitely isn't in my sights yet. One radical, the rest all potential...somethings. But certainly not permanent housemates. Not until further scrutiny. I'm putting that one on ice for a while.