{"id":709,"date":"2007-05-12T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/05\/12\/life-as-a-blur\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:15:24","slug":"life-as-a-blur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/709","title":{"rendered":"Life as a blur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back during the 70s when I worked in acrylics, I once made a painting called \u201cBlur-Head.\u201d It could be a symbol of my life in 2007. I try to compartmentalize, but everything is just shmooshed together, as each day tumbles into the next, filled with unmet requests and rapid-fire deadlines. I can&#8217;t complain. It\u2019s a product of my own intent to be busy again.<\/p>\n<p>Ian was in Danville for a spell, and we met him in the gallery at the Community Arts Center. The lad looks slim and trim, and I was glad to see him. He liked my show. He walked home with us and had a chance to say hello to Bruce before heading down to the farm. I may not get to see him again before he departs for a big island in the ocean. <em>Be safe. Aloha.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t say how long it\u2019s been since I was on a bike that wasn\u2019t meant to sit on a floor, but I finally joined friends for a Thursday night ride out past the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rick.com\/index.cfm?p=24\">Rick Dees<\/a> estate. It was an incredible evening, although I gabbed so much I don\u2019t think I fully appreciated being out there. That\u2019s ok. It\u2019s a start. I feel like I have to build my conditioning from scratch. How did that happen?<\/p>\n<p>During the time I\u2019ve been actively blogging\u2014since January of 2005\u2014it\u2019s never been this much of a struggle to make a regular entry. Something about the little calendar in the other format helped prompt me, but it\u2019s more than that. Blogging is effortless when you know what you think or feel. This spring I haven\u2019t allowed the mind-time or heart-time to catch up with myself. Hopefully that will change as I adapt to this new rhythm of daily activity. Forgive me if my notes here become a bit \u201cblurred.\u201d If that\u2019s the way my life is right now, perhaps I\u2019ll have more to show for it than a journal. There\u2019s a logic and purpose to what\u2019s happening lately. My profile is being elevated on multiple fronts, all at the same time. I need to resist the tendency to seek validation by writing things in a log. On the other hand, life without introspection is an alien existence. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cFate is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought\u2014for causes which are unpenetrated.\u201d \u2014Emerson\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A new and satisfactory pattern will emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back during the 70s when I worked in acrylics, I once made a painting called \u201cBlur-Head.\u201d It could be a symbol of my life in 2007. I try to compartmentalize, but everything is just shmooshed together, as each day tumbles into the next, filled with unmet requests and rapid-fire deadlines. I can&#8217;t complain. It\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33,21,18,8,20,44,14,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}