Author: John Otter

The other day when I was organizing stuff in my house (mostly paperwork) I stumbled across a folder jam packed full of old writings of mine – dating roughly between 1994 & 1999. I read through a few then and just now read through more of them. Seeing them the other day made me wonder why I don’t write as much as I used to. I wonder if all the drawing I’m doing lately takes the place of writing. Most of the writing is rather abstract poetry of sorts, but not all. My plan is to wake up a bit earlier than usual this week and start writing again. I’ll most likely post the writings as blog entries and if I become inspired I might even post some of the old writings. If I don’t have a new blog post by 9am tomorrow you’ll know I failed. I think I’ll set my computer to turn on automatically at 8:15am.

never ceases to amaze me. Maybe not life, but rather all the proceedings and activities, some conscious some involuntary. I’ve been extremely focused in certain regards and a complete space-case in others. Work is so busy its become like a meditation, where time slows to the pace of molasses dripping. Fires are raging around southern california, but here the sky is blue and the wind is calm, its hard to realize the intensity of the blazes just miles away. A day or two before the fires started I was out walking when I suddenly questioned whether I turned off the stove-top burner, so I walked home (which was only about 15 minutes away) – the whole walk home I was imagining the worst, the house ablaze and then rationalizing that there’s no way I could’ve forgotten to turn off the burner. I even questioned why I was walking all the way home when I was sure (or at least pretty sure) that I didn’t leave the burner on. When I got home I checked and it was off as I had suspected. I really wondered why the panic and then a day or two later all the repoorts of southern california burning came. I guess it is at least better safe than sorry. I think I’ll develop my own language and share it with the animals.

Today at work a chair I had ordered arrived, it came in three separate boxes and I had to assemble it. A lot of the warnings were pretty funny but I had to keep this one. I was thinking it mighty be fun to play with something as a head covering. I didn’t even know how cool head coverings were until they mentioned it, and it seems like it might be popular to play with things as head coverings. I think I’ll use this piece of scratch paper on my desk as a head covering – maybe it’ll be fun (and safe).

Before attending a piano recital