Not not-reading
I haven't posted in this blog in a long time. But I am constantly reading.
Often in my reading, I come across potentially life-changing, perspective-shifting ideas. Today I am reminded of coming across these ideas during my mid-20's; and the feeling, back then, of getting ecstatically excited over their novelty. Slowly, these concepts and ideals had become part of me, my worldview, who I am today.
But I mention "those days" because I sense that I no longer greet ideas, big or small, the same way anymore. Perhaps part of me - the cynic - accepts that, no matter how righteous an idea, the world still operates under certain rules that are hard to overcome. (There, I refrained from using the word "insurmountable.") I wish that this - the cynic part of me - were not so. But it is what it is, and I am aware of it.
The reading that had brought about all of this is a response from independent filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal on how we live and how we waste. The piece was spotted in the magazine Filmmaker, part of the (wasteful) schwag bag from the Cinequest Independent Film Festival.
Often in my reading, I come across potentially life-changing, perspective-shifting ideas. Today I am reminded of coming across these ideas during my mid-20's; and the feeling, back then, of getting ecstatically excited over their novelty. Slowly, these concepts and ideals had become part of me, my worldview, who I am today.
But I mention "those days" because I sense that I no longer greet ideas, big or small, the same way anymore. Perhaps part of me - the cynic - accepts that, no matter how righteous an idea, the world still operates under certain rules that are hard to overcome. (There, I refrained from using the word "insurmountable.") I wish that this - the cynic part of me - were not so. But it is what it is, and I am aware of it.
The reading that had brought about all of this is a response from independent filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal on how we live and how we waste. The piece was spotted in the magazine Filmmaker, part of the (wasteful) schwag bag from the Cinequest Independent Film Festival.
posted by Kayan at 4:31 PM
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One of my kids today was just calling me weird because I reuse plastic water bottles and paper and whatnot. I tried to tell her it wasn't being weird, it was being green. And efficient. Both the environmentalist and the engineer in me. And the liberal.
Test posting,
--Yong
yay miz kayan...! and really, you do lead me to read so much more (not just the books on this site -- thanks to you, i'm trying to even read NEWSpapers...online, but current events, whoa.)
how is that 1414 page book treating you, anyhow?
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