Third in the calendar series. Refer to calendar #1 to see what this is all about.
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Posts Tagged ‘lifestyle’
Calendar #3
Posted 18 Dec 2009 — by cheersphilip
Category diary, Ideas, Rant, Stories, thought, Typewriter Bubble
Category diary, Ideas, Rant, Stories, thought, Typewriter Bubble
Calendar #3
Posted 18 Dec 2009 — by cheersphilip
Category diary, Ideas, Rant, Stories, thought, Typewriter Bubble
Category diary, Ideas, Rant, Stories, thought, Typewriter Bubble
Third in the calendar series. Refer to calendar #1 to see what this is all about.
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Calendar Series #2
Posted 16 Dec 2009 — by cheersphilip
Category diary, Ideas, Rant, Stories, thought, Typewriter Bubble
Category diary, Ideas, Rant, Stories, thought, Typewriter Bubble
This is the second of the Calendar series from earlier this year.
Read the previous post to see what it’s about.
This is the first ‘actual’ typewritten page in this series.
Cheers,
Philip
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Calendar Series #2
Posted 16 Dec 2009 — by cheersphilip
Category diary, Ideas, Rant, Stories, thought, Typewriter Bubble
Category diary, Ideas, Rant, Stories, thought, Typewriter Bubble
This is the second of the Calendar series from earlier this year.
Read the previous post to see what it’s about.
This is the first ‘actual’ typewritten page in this series.
Cheers,
Philip
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A Little Girl Sits By The River Bank
Posted 15 Dec 2009 — by cheersphilip
Category Stories, Typewriter Bubble
Category Stories, Typewriter Bubble
This came out of me no having any internet, for several days now. The question is, ‘what do you do?’
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This is what I am going to DO
This is what I am going to DO
I like this blog.
I like the idea of writing whatever I want and that there might be someone, however remote, who might take an interest.
Following from that, I like using my typewriter to write short pieces of text.
These short pieces of text can be quite self-serving, but they can also be surreal stories, peoms or anecdotes that may be of interest to you.
What I am going to do is put these typewritten pieces up on the blog.
This is good for a couple of reasons;
- I like writing them
- You might like reading them
- They don;t go on and on; generally i’ll stop at one page.
- They are spontaneous and, as far as can make them, ‘true’. That is, I am not trying to contrive some end purpose or result, i just enjoy doing it for the sake of doing it.
So, what I will do is put up a ‘typewriter bubble’ every day or so. I may dip into my back catalogue (as I will do for the first one, just to see if it works – i.e. if its readable).
This will interest me and, the good lord willing, you.
These pieces have not been published or otherwise shown to the public before. I hope that this will not alter the way that I write them. I’m not sure if that matters.
About seven years ago I wrote something and someone said ’tis is of no interest to us, it’s boring, whay would we want to hear this?’. this hurt and I didn’t put any more of my writing out there again.
No doubt this will happen again, thanks to the multitude of opinons out there on the internet. We will just have to see how it goes.
I am going to write a new page called Claimer/Disclaimer, that will attempt to set out what I am trying to do and not do with the ‘typwriter bubbles’ (I’m for-ever blow-ing bubbles…)
Here goes then! Thanks for watching…
Cheers,
Philip
This is it
This is it.
i’ve had enough.
I’ve tried. I’ve tried freaking everything.
Now i’m just going to have to DO.
Let me explain…
I was dissatisfied with my life. Something wasn’t right, but i didn;t know what.
I thought about it a lot. I read self-help books. I attended workshops and seminars. I did all the exercises they suggested. I contacted my ‘spirit partners’. I labelled everything in my house. I wrote down my core values.
Everything.
But I still did not know what it was that i wanted. I was still dissatisfied.
I made changes.
I quit my job and became self employed. I thought I wanted to be an inventor – i could always go back to teaching if it didn;t work out.
I do want to be n inventor, but that’s not all i want to be.
I am still dissatisfied.
I wanted to find out what my values are. What motivates me? No point in doing anything unless you know why you’re doing it, right?
Fair enough. But i don’t know. I just don’t know.
Something tells me that i may never know.
this is cary and not a little unnerving. but what other honest answer is there?
So I don’t know what my values are, why i do the things i do. But there, right there, is the key!
What i Do want, what i DO want to do, is to find out what it is that i want to do.
this kind of thinking hurts my head, but lets work with it.
under this question (what do i want to do?), i am suddenly released from constrictive labelling and marketting-speak pitches about who i am or whatever.
Suddenly, in a way, i am free.
I am free to do what I want to do, without worrying about why i am doing it. I can do things that i am drawn to, that interst me ( i have a short little span of attention, or so it feels).
Payment will come later, i’m sure, (do not tell my bank manager this – it does not make for a good business plan).
So, okay Philip, you can do what you want to do. Congratu-fucking-lations.
What are you going to do?
I’m so glad you asked!
(you didn’t; that was a literary device that probably has some name, of which i am unaware, but bear with me)
That, my friend, is for the next post!
I tend to waffle when confronted with an endless piece of digital paper, so i’m forcing myself into breaking this up into a two-parter.
See you on the next post (that’s the one above, if you’re reading this on a big long page)
Cheers,
Philip
No Adverts!
In exchange for something we want, we will agree to look at a certain quantity of advertising.
This is understood as a form of exchange – you give me free email, I get adverts down the side of the page. There are many examples of this.
But what are we exchanging? Our attention? The use of some part of our brain, connected to the visual cortex? Whatever it is, advertisers hope that it is more or less directly connected to an impulse to follow the advert, eventually allowing someone to connect to our bank accounts.
Many people don’t click through or, if asked, wouldn’t say that they even look at the adverts. However, they are still there, pulling on your attention, at the edge of your vision.
There’s a big question here:
Is the source of this attention finite or infinite? If infinite, then we are getting a good exchange. But, if it is finite, or somehow degradable, we may not realise the consequences of such transactions – until it is too late…
[cue ominous roll of thunder and flash of lightning, briefly illuminating your fear-filled face]
Cheers,
Philip
A Cup-of-Tea Kind of Day
Posted 20 Oct 2009 — by cheersphilip
Category diary
Category diary
It’s been a cup-of-tea kind of day. One cup after another. Check emails. Nothing. Check Twitter. Not interested. Search the web. Too slow.
I’m slowly looking back to me in my early twenties, and I want what he had. young, dumb and full of cum. A flexible mind that went everywhere. Could think itself round corners and slide laterally to come up with solutions to problems that could be recognised as worthy by the majority of the western world.
~But the world knows he wasn’t perfect. Too fickle, not confident. No discipline. Nothing ever came of those ideas, of course, although we’ve seen some of them come to market recently. nothing came of it because there was o belief, no recognition that ‘this could work’, that people might welcome these things into their lives.
So what my life needs is the flexibility of thought that ‘he’ had, with everything that I’ve learnt since added on. I’ve seen many amazing things and met so many interesting people. I’ve learnt more about myself than i thought possible.
It’s possible that the two can’t be linked – that my knowledge and habits now preclude that flexibility of mind that i’m looking for. But i’ll look none the less.
In the meantime it’s looks like i’m going to put the kettle on again. i really like sitting in the garden with my oversized mug and the cat playing at my feet. time to breathe. Time for a really good cup of tea.
" I haven't met anyone who regretted following their dreams"
Posted 19 Oct 2009 — by cheersphilip
Category diary
Category diary
I’ve just finished watching John’s interview with Tom Hodgkinson. Tom wrote How to Be Free which a friend bought me for christmas.
his book, i can confidently say, is what started me on the road to being where i am now. Ten months later i have given up my job as a school teacher and jumped feet-first into self employment.
Tom, in the interview, is absolutely right when he says that noone regrets going after their dreams. Even if this inventor lark doesn’t work out financially or whatever, it will still have been orth it. Just to know that it was something that i could do, and that i did it, gives a lovely warm feeling that would make office-drones puke.
Shortly after reading it i got help, from John, in the form of support and encouragement. John says that the ideal is to play all day and get paid. (one out of two so far, John!)
I got on to John through the ideas of Barbara Sher, who says that its okay to be intereseted in lots of different things, not just one thing. Halleluliah!
Its still early days, but at least im enjoying it 
So thanks to everyone who’s influenced me a long the way, and to everyone who i’ve yet meet!
Cheers,
Philip