Thursday, July 15, 2010

Anyone still here? Am I still here?

I am in fact still here and gearing up for another night of league bowling while doing laundry that has been long overdue. Started writing a post a week or so ago that was interrupted and never resumed and it started something like this. Finally have the motivation to start writing again. I commented to a friend recently about my lack of writing this blog and how my usual method of finding a reason to write has escaped me of late. Rarely do i just sit down and start writing, as I am now, because usually a pattern of some kind emerges from the events of my daily life and then I write about that and how lately I have not seen those patterns emerge. Whether it is from a lack of attention payed to my life or to the details therein or from a lack of a recognizable patten I have not been writing. I then went on to suggest something that in retrospect seems a bit obvious and not very creative of writing about the lack of a pattern. Sounds like philosophical bullshit now but maybe it helped make it okay in my mind to sort of write about nothing in particular. JUST WRITE! Here I am in the middle of the post trying to find some thread that will tie it together but at the same time not really worried if one even emerges. My life since my last post has been really really colorful(to steal a line from a movie). Whirlwind would be a good term to describe some of the things that have happened in the last six or seven months. Freedom, carelessness, beer, golf, music, making out, theatre, pop, dancing, insanity, old friends, new friends, binge, purge, I could go on and on in fact I just did. These are some keywords or characterizations of how my life has wended and weaved its way to where I am today which while not far removed from my last blog post in time is a far far cry from how I live my life now and then. A polar shift of sorts might make more sense. Summer will continue to exert its unpredictable nature on my life and I will go on living and drinking and loveing and golfing...well you get the idea.

2 comments:

shelli said...

Thanks for posting Olaf!
I hope that you keep it going.

rose said...

In Hawaii my affliction has become paradise paralysis... should I call someone and go to the.... should i clean this or that.... should i get that appt. made.... should i??? no... i will just relax and smoke one and watch the waves do the same thing tomorrow....