On what's exciting me right now...

Yikes, guys! In true dani form I managed to lock myself out of my blog which is why I haven't written since my first entry. I'm sure I could have figured it out sooner, but I got frustrated and just continued to write in my notebook. So I've deprived the world of my stories, for a week or two I guess. Well, I'm back now and hopefully I won't lock myself out of my account again. Or just get stuck away from a computer for awhile. Or just get lazy and write in my notebook. All of these things are likely to happen, but I'll keep coming back. I will say that I often have ideas that I want to put up here on my lovely ol' blog, but some of them are ideas and I cannot relinquish those to the world yet! Some of them could be worth something someday... and I mean, I have quite the ecclectic mix of people in my life, which makes for very rich and promissing material. That's what I still have to get past though, if I want to become a regular blogger. These days-- particularly in my profession-- it can be a dangerous or stupid thing to publish your life stories on the internet. I like to think of it as a potentially good thing, however, because I love writing and I am excited about this new medium. (Well the computer, the web and blogging are not a collective 'new' medium, but writing on the web is for me.) So despite the risks involved in writing online, I am accepting the challenge and embracing those risks.

Yesterday I did a lot of thinking. Well, I am usually doing a lot of thinking, but lately I have been thinking with a different part of my brain. Or rather, I have been thinking more and more with both of my hemispheres at once, and ideas and topics that I once isolated from one another are beginning to merge. I don't know if this is happening organically or if I am finally allowing myself to accept that there's still so much that I don't know about everything. It's funny... If I were not embarking on a career in a creative field, I've always thought it would be quite incredible to become an astronomer. Now I'm realizing that I am somewhat of a metaphorical astronomer, regardless. I constantly gaze at the stars and seek what is beyond, what is out there. And there is physical space, my brain, the creative ether and quite possibly everything. And I am loving learning more about science. Two days ago I picked up a book called "the ever-transcending spirit" that is essientially a spiritual psychology book. It discussed ideas and philosophies I have thought about before, but approached this ideas from more of a scientific perspective than what I am used to. Shortly after, I flipped through a philosophy book that I have read before, which also concerns transcendence (but in a seemingly very different light.) The two are conncected. Well, if I were transcendent I would say that everything is connected. But my point-- I've always been an English person, a philosophy person, a creative person. The math and science part of my brain has always been less distinctive to me. But I have always been fascinated by that side of my brain. Well I think it just woke up. And it's pretty exciting! Both sides of my brain are talking to each other and now they won't stop! I love it.

On Starting a Blog...

The whole concept of a blog has always been something that has evaded the frames of my vision and has (until now) always floated somewhere in the ether above my head. This may have been because I've always thought this an egotist's outlet for broadcasting his or her life. Perhaps I have just realized I am wrong or... perhaps (and this is more likely) I, too, am an egotist. Whatever the reason, the bottom line is that I have decided to embark on the blog-train. I am a writer. I write all the time, and I also enjoy frolicking about on the internet. And after speaking to Jake's brother, Travis, about the adventures and joys of blogging, I have concluded that it is time to move to the 'electronic journal.' The key here is that I realized that the blog does not have to be a diary-- a word that evokes for me images of sappy girls gushing their hearts to the only thing that will listen to them. I am not like that. No, no... I use my 'journal' (still reminds me of the word 'diary' so I prefer 'notebook')... I use my notebook to write down all kinds of things, and that is how I will use the almighty 'blog'. I can write about absolutely anything and imagine the possibilities, oh my! I will probably write notes, voice opinions, create stories or simply relate the strange and entertaining day to day musings of my life. But I do warn those who do choose to read... it is quite possible that my blog will know no limits (well, within reason.) So the meek-minded, the weak-willed, the easily-offended, the self-righteous, the judgemental, the sensitive-hearted and all the departed... are advised to take everything I say with a little bit of levity. And so the adventures of Dani (and of blogging!) begin...