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.