24 June 2007
The Wrong Thing to Do...
27/06/07 19:39 Permalink
Well, my
power supply arrived today and now I can get back to
blogging. Not that there's much to report. I am
content.
My days are pretty sedentary and simple. I eat, I write, I study French, I read and when I need some, I bicycle to village a few kilometers from here called Chalabre. I'm in the middle of some things, but with hope, in the next couple of days, I can get around to posting albums of my last days in Poland and of the beautiful landscapes I see daily. Also, if anyone reading this has any tips on night photography with a digital camera, they would be useful. I can see such a beautiful sky every night, I would love to be able to post pictures.
I posted the seventh part of my Dekalog in Recent Poems. I am working on the final three parts. The end is in sight and I have another project lined up for afterwards. While on the subject of poetry, I have to remark that I think I am truly beginning to appreciate the act of writing in form more and more as the days here progress. It's teaching me a lot about how music is wrung from language - things I would not have learned had I not challenged myself. Actually, I don't know if it was a challenge, or my own contrary nature. I've quoted these lines from Bob Wilson, before: "Sometimes you say to yourself 'what should I do next'...you're trying to think of the right thing to do but quite often you should think 'what's the wrong thing to do what should I not do?'...and then do that."
My days are pretty sedentary and simple. I eat, I write, I study French, I read and when I need some, I bicycle to village a few kilometers from here called Chalabre. I'm in the middle of some things, but with hope, in the next couple of days, I can get around to posting albums of my last days in Poland and of the beautiful landscapes I see daily. Also, if anyone reading this has any tips on night photography with a digital camera, they would be useful. I can see such a beautiful sky every night, I would love to be able to post pictures.
I posted the seventh part of my Dekalog in Recent Poems. I am working on the final three parts. The end is in sight and I have another project lined up for afterwards. While on the subject of poetry, I have to remark that I think I am truly beginning to appreciate the act of writing in form more and more as the days here progress. It's teaching me a lot about how music is wrung from language - things I would not have learned had I not challenged myself. Actually, I don't know if it was a challenge, or my own contrary nature. I've quoted these lines from Bob Wilson, before: "Sometimes you say to yourself 'what should I do next'...you're trying to think of the right thing to do but quite often you should think 'what's the wrong thing to do what should I not do?'...and then do that."
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