Many of us know of the problems of Robert Schuman, Vincent Van Gogh, and Virginia Woolf. I know now why they could have problems. Either a creator gets depressed when the ideas run dry or frustrated when the ideas come faster than they can put them on paper or canvas.
You can see from today's postings that I have lots of ideas, whether you agree with them or not. Beyond that are files for each month with notes for possible amplification, a two-inch pile of 1/4 sheets of scribbled notes, and about two dozen record books of notes, some in a shorthand.
And I keep generating more ideas as I read newspapers, magazines, and books, both paper and online.
Showing posts with label notes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label notes. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 13, 2009
Too many notes!
I was going to make a note of our latest bottle of wine on my iPod for future reference. But why? I have so many notes I can't find them all. Slips of paper. Bound books. Steno books. Full size spiral notebooks. Files all over my computer.
I keep adding ideas for blogs or things to do, and the list gets bigger and bigger. I really have to have the attitude of a 92-year-old man mentioned on a recent "To the Best of Our Knowledge" podcast. He was sitting next to a woman the same age who lamented that she was ready to pack it in. He looked at her in shock and exclaimed "I plan to live to 142!"
I can write ideas for blogs faster than I can write the blogs themselves. Just below this draft in my March notes files are
Performance and efficiency as code words for less taxes
Should we save airline jobs? (As part of the whole ethos of saving jobs when the work has changed)
The model of economic growth has broken based on Thomas Friedman's "The Inflection is Near?" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08friedman.html
What would I have written about the bottle of wine? Even though it was an organic, sulfite-free wine, it still gave my wife a headache later. It was a reasonable table wine, smooth and medium bodied. What was the name? I'd have to pull the bottle out of recycling. I guess we'll keep buying the organic, sulfite-free wine that doesn't give my wife a headache. Aging does get us in a rut. Wine does too.
Meanwhile I have another short blog on why I had difficulty sleeping last night.
I keep adding ideas for blogs or things to do, and the list gets bigger and bigger. I really have to have the attitude of a 92-year-old man mentioned on a recent "To the Best of Our Knowledge" podcast. He was sitting next to a woman the same age who lamented that she was ready to pack it in. He looked at her in shock and exclaimed "I plan to live to 142!"
I can write ideas for blogs faster than I can write the blogs themselves. Just below this draft in my March notes files are
Performance and efficiency as code words for less taxes
Should we save airline jobs? (As part of the whole ethos of saving jobs when the work has changed)
The model of economic growth has broken based on Thomas Friedman's "The Inflection is Near?" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08friedman.html
What would I have written about the bottle of wine? Even though it was an organic, sulfite-free wine, it still gave my wife a headache later. It was a reasonable table wine, smooth and medium bodied. What was the name? I'd have to pull the bottle out of recycling. I guess we'll keep buying the organic, sulfite-free wine that doesn't give my wife a headache. Aging does get us in a rut. Wine does too.
Meanwhile I have another short blog on why I had difficulty sleeping last night.
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