"I Cheated"

All day in front of the computer, doing necessary nitpicky things to finetune the promotion of the Game of Games. This also is the third day without a poem. In need of sun, a break, something... I decided to cheat and recycle an old poem, Hymn for Diversity and Spirituality. Be amazing if anyone really noticed it. Anyhow, I am looking forward to getting back to writing new stuff, although the rest takes some of the edge off. Well, maybe I need some of the edge taken off...

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Tech Blues

Most of the challenge of the thirtypoems project is technical. I spend all too much time screwing around with the website, taking out FP extensions etc. Makes me wonder about life in general. If I were free not to bother with technical things, I would likey be more creative. So, the trick is to offload these things and concentrate on what one does naturally. Of course, it certainly helps to have money to pull this off.

I am by my count around three days behind, counting the break I am taking today. I'm liking what I am writing, which is a good sign...

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Macros: Thirty Days Project

More than a creative challenge, the 30 days project now presents technical challenges. Because of my low tech, I first create, then publish on Ecademy, then cut and paste here. I am sufficiently new to this that I don't have the tech down to do this easily. The simplest thing to do is to abandoned the Thirty Days blog and just keep this blog. More elegent thing to do is to figure out a way to use the macro software I downloaded, although I am not convinced this will do the trick. I also have to start writing these poems earlier. As it is, I come down to the wire. Posted about 10 minutes before midnight tonight, for example.

Anyway, about the macros. I have thought for some time that a good sci fi story would be about a guy in the near future who makes macros for a living, macros that do very complex things. After a while, he has too many macros and at the same time wants a new challenge. So he creates a macro that controls all the macros. Then, I Robot-like, the macros take over.
Ah, this sort of thing's been done!

The third day of thirty days

In the third day of the "thirty days" project, I begin to settle into a kind of rhythm. I begin contemplating subjects in the early afternoon, then start to write in the early evening, finishing usually about an hour and a half before midnight. Most of the poems so far are akin to hymns, very little secular about them. Be interesting to see how this evolves.

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Bipolar Moon

Late night, nearly morning. The rythem of the 30Days/30Poems has taken over my soul. Up late, making connectings via Ecademy. Registering 30 Dayswebsite: the usual big plans. So many times, the big plans have crashed down. Down with the night face up on the bipolar moon. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in the pain of the crash, then the pain of all the people who have crashed across time. Breathe the healing sunlit honey-colored rain. Breathe in, breathe out.

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ThirtyPoemsinThirtyDays

So, I've begun this project -- creating 30 Poems in Thirty Days.
Would be good to start a concurrent project -- one part of my office cleaned on 30 days.
What is this thing about goals and setting targets? I wonder if this is a particularly contemporary, Western, particularly American thing to do. When I asked friends of a Buddhist master I knew of the master's daily schedule, they replied that he "lived the dharma." Meaning, he had no "schedule," as such, but instead responded to what was put before him.

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Is sleep overrated? Conventional wisdom says one needs 7-8 hours of consistent sleep. It also says that one cannot catch up on lost sleep. If this is so, why have some famous individuals needed less sleep? I have always believed that amount of sleep one needs depends on two things: a) constitution, b) among of contrast between reality and dream. In other words, if one is truly doing what one wants to do in life, then one has less need for dreaming and sleep.

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