Once a day

Once a day

I listened to a podcast recently from Distributing the Future entitled “Write Your Novel.” This is what the O’Reilly website has to say about Distributing the Future,”Distributing the Future” is O’Reilly Media’s weekly podcast featuring the technology and the people behind what you use now and what you’ll use next.”

The “Write Your Novel” article got me thinking about getting more into writing, and talked about the Write Your Life website to get started. Although the link was said in passing, I found it very interesting and something that I could get into.

On the write your life website there’s 30 writing assignments listed one per day. The assignments are supposed to get you started writing 1000 words a day. Writing 1000 words a day is a good starting point for writing a novel. I’m not trying to write a novel, but I’d like to get into writing more and will spend the next 30 days trying out this web site’s format. Over the next 30 days, you may learn something about me. I hope you enjoy the writings.

[10/23/2006] A Beach of a Weekend

[10/23/2006] A Beach of a Weekend

I had a great weekend this weekend at the beach. We went to Assateague State Park. It was only Ryan, Abra, and myself, but still very fun. Tom and Lauren did show up too and that was a pleasant surprise. I was a bit upset at the poor turnout considering everyone I invited, but who was meant to be there was. If you want to know more about it, please just talk to me. I don’t feel like writing out the entire story here. Ask about apples in the fire and our ‘dark’ covert ops mission.

Other than that, simply being in Maryland at Assateague was a bit trigger for me. I was reliving some old feelings of a certain female I once dated. We went there one weekend when things were good. (This had to have been 4 – 4 and half years ago.) She’s recently appeared in some journal writing I’ve done. She’s a person I owe amends to for the way I mistreated her back then. A close friend questioned me to see if maybe I set myself by going there knowing that these feelings would probably come up. I think in a way I did. I also think that I didn’t know how bad these feelings would cause me inner turmoil like they have. (I wasn’t doing this journal writing when I initially made the plans.)

I am not sure there’s much to say about that except that it’s not up to me to do anything with the thoughts and feelings that I’ve been having except to let God deal with it. I am not ready to actually make the amends for the things I’ve done wrong to this person, but it does help being aware that I still have such feelings. Not everything has immediate closure. Closure is optional in my experience. Even if I did set myself up, or if I didn’t… it always seem that I’m meant to be where I am for a reason.

Overall, I’m very glad I went and work isn’t that bad right now. I love how my life takes a back seat when all that bothers me while camping is that a fire’s lit and that there’s some food source available to us. I can’t wait to go back.

That being said, I’ll keep you posted,
Kevin