Lit and Latte Animal

I was skiing, and the "attendant" for the lift, remarked about my last moves on the slope as "Animal" in a respectable manner. I had been in gear writing regularly then, on the first book, early days of email? 1995 abouts. Dreams of Kindle-like reader dancing about in one's head in dreams, seeing it coming. Really one has no idea sometimes what the connotations are, what is a "mind map" for the individual's experience w/ the utterance, yea, yea, yea, yea. Not my business, say. I took it as a compliment and carried on, not caring, knowing, who knows, years later writing about ideas, thoughts, feelings, energy, mojo, whilst (dec.) Lou Reed, Rock 'n Roll Animal, playing "in the background" brings back moments of memories, prompts. I had hesitated listening to him since his death w/ respects demonstrated. Why tonight? If not now, when?

There is a time when one is in the production state of mind, other times, consumer. 2007-8 showed although w/ somethings out of our control, it is a lion's share effort @ producing that makes change, change being productivity. Microsoft's attempt/efforts @ the computers' changing OS to 8, 8.1 was a transition from the computer evolving from consumer to producer. I don't know what you think? I would rather be a producer. So a balance w/ Window's 8 ... was geared toward 50/50 consumer/producer demographics; unfortunately intuitive transitions were considered thin, ... resultant response; Windows 10.

One thing I learned when I started the business was to be productive w/ a productive learning curve. Id est, efforts were to be geared toward the writing/business and its inputs to making gains in both, following; not to take time to, however gratefully, learn a new OS system, meaning time on the new OS was time taken away from the writing, the business. Not exactly difficult. The thing was it showed, demonstrated the formula, mechanics of a certain problem. Where is the direction/energy to be placed, how can one redirect, minimize, and progress more effectively? Looking back now it was a minor problem w/ eventful gains, and small changes made big differences. Nevertheless these things come up. One wants to not repeat such events, be free from reiterating considered failures, red flags meaning to do something else. It is nonetheless a fool who passes by a lesson. Learn. Learning is a change in behaviour and thought. Learn while one writes, runs a/does business.

Like going to school, college, workshops, grad schools, webinars, on and on, two basic constructs surface. One; you are there to gain information making a foundation for what you need to know, and more, farther learning and knowledge. Two; you are there to meet people w/ similar interests, where there could be a sybiotic environment, where you could have the opportunity of working w/ people, everybody benefitting, gaining in a win/win situation amidst the work. You get better at it. You can get better at it.

Dreams of coffee shops, open air, visions of Neuchatel, Paris, NYC, L.A., Chicago dancing in your brain motivate you to take the writing journal escape. It is an escape that you create, guiding the pen, the root of an idea to explore, growing, being active cognitively, finding advocacy w/ your beliefs, say, your dogma, philosophies, literary turn-ons, ideas that stimulate you, bring pleasure amongst the pain of life on life's terms. Maybe solving the dilemmas? Been said in brain research that the brain knows no difference of visualizing events and the exact events themselves. Maybe that is what hooked you to write? Knowing and not knowing, one is said to live longer, if in their lives they have practiced visualization, fantasizing, on and on w/ related practices.

I have to share this. Well, two things. One; Diligently taking life by the horns and being a committed writer have consequent results. Insights, surfacing of feelings and thoughts help one get to know one's self better, and also understanding this thing called life outside the self manifests itself bringing order. The page by pen and/or keyboard is powerful. It is one place where you can tap into the self, ... maturing into others just as well, as well can be. Healthy dependency w/ its respective positioning in the chess board of life can create a new world, at least in our little niche of it. Reaching out is healthy. People need people. If you are even contemplating the paradigm and perspective of knowing the difference is the beginning of a new of life. Help others. Fill the well. Progress on. I learned about the journey of what maybe can I get from you to :What may I do for you." Two; creatures that live on the inside of the reefs in Australia are rather protected and consequently a drab coloring. Meanwhile the creatures outside the reef, living the energy of the ocean and tides are colorful, brightly, brilliantly. I would ask my students what they would decide. What do you want to be?

One thing I learned in my early years of writing was that it organised thoughts, unexpectedly often so, and increased my awareness and aided the descriptive perspectives, viewpoints that fed into my manuscripts, my books. I believe this helped me cognitively. I also learned to study fears, being in the same line of work. This greatly helped in my quality of life. Awareness is reality, as well as an individual can define it. Leading to the point. After writing for five years of seriously consistent writing I took an exam and qualified for Mensa, the oldest group internationally for those gifted in intelligence. This was quite an event that happened for me. I had the attitude that if I passed, well and good. If not, I still am a good person, and nothing was lost/misplaced/ and/or stolen. I am living proof. Do not buy into some things. I was in my early thirties, and had never formally heard this. Writing is magic. That is my belief, my axiom in the laws of writing. Again, start now. Do the NRM, the next right move, better; the right move now, RMN.

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