Remabulous

a low point

image: fuseman via flickr

i'm going to have to come right out and say it: i'm hitting a bit of a wall. i think this is a wall that most creative people face at some point, so i felt the need to share it: feeling useless.  it has been a long time since i have been on a path anyone could call conventional, and i am having some doubt about whether that continues to be a good thing. i assumed others struggling to make a creative life have felt the same way, so it seemed a good idea to address the topic.

magritte, silent movies, new crafts and pages marching on

  yes, i'm still reading. but i took time to try some other things this week, too. and although the book i am reading is a little scary like this lady's appears to be, i am not yet daunted. (image: rene magritte)

happy new year! here come the rules...

megan's challenge books 2007

after consulting with megan and jacob, i have some additional notes on the challenge. they have a slightly different angle, which i think might work for a lot of people. the challenge for them is about having hauled unread books from apartment to apartment and wanting to get through them. they have a nice put up or shut up thought: any books on the challenge list unread by the end of the year need to be sold or donated. may i also suggest using bookcrossing, the site of the month?

so, to recap the mover's delight challenge read on:

reading challenge 2007: are you in?

recently, over e-mail, my friend megan's boyfriend jacob shared an idea they'd been discussing: a challenge to read all those books in 2007 that we just haven't gotten around to actually sitting down with yet.

jacob is a big reader like me (needs books like air) and, as a result, has amassed a bunch of titles that have been left in the dust for the moment. he and megan met in grad school, which has further contributed to the problem for both of them. having assigned reading all the time in mass quantities is a big bummer for the recreational reader. jacob suggested we take this wide via the blog. i have accepted the challenge.

here it is: pick out all the books laying around the house that you own, have been meaning to read, but haven't yet. jacob's reasonable suggestion was 5-7 books as a goal. i- being both unreasonable and overzealous at the thought of feeling square with my reading by the end of 2007- have identified 39.  let me tell you why.

the 2007 reading challenge tower of power: 12,073 pages of reading goodness.