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2 months ago
in Redirecting Energy on Kim Werker Blog
"I have a tendency to sit and mull and stare because I need to feel like I’m “working” even though I’m not getting a damn thing done".
Exact description of my behaviour. You can add "aimless surfing" to the sitting and staring.
I also turn to housework (in endless supply...) - or I go crochet something, anything.
If it's really, really bad, I might decide to do some gardening, even if it's not a "gardening day". Great therapy.
Exact description of my behaviour. You can add "aimless surfing" to the sitting and staring.
I also turn to housework (in endless supply...) - or I go crochet something, anything.
If it's really, really bad, I might decide to do some gardening, even if it's not a "gardening day". Great therapy.
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3 months ago
in Where Are the Crochet Bloggers? on Kim Werker Blog
Most interesting thread since the one on Sarah Palin, Kim! Seriously!
I don't blog often enough. This is particularly true in winter, since I believe that a good post on my blog must have a nice photo, and the light is so crappy here in the winter.
That being said, I think that my best blog posts have nothing to do with the photos. They come when I stop thinking about what I should write, and just sit down and, well, write.
I think it's very interesting to see how new social media, like community sites, Twitter etc. affect blogging. Personally, I can't keep up with it all, but I've noticed a new focus on blogs in my own case. And definitely more quality than quantity - I follow just a few blogs regularly, but I read them all the time.
A very good blog is about a million times as interesting as any forum on the Internet, IMHO.
I don't blog often enough. This is particularly true in winter, since I believe that a good post on my blog must have a nice photo, and the light is so crappy here in the winter.
That being said, I think that my best blog posts have nothing to do with the photos. They come when I stop thinking about what I should write, and just sit down and, well, write.
I think it's very interesting to see how new social media, like community sites, Twitter etc. affect blogging. Personally, I can't keep up with it all, but I've noticed a new focus on blogs in my own case. And definitely more quality than quantity - I follow just a few blogs regularly, but I read them all the time.
A very good blog is about a million times as interesting as any forum on the Internet, IMHO.
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Kim Werker
You nailed it, Annette, and I've experienced the same thing: When I stop
thinking about what I should (and shouldn't) write and just sit down and
write, I do my best work.
I'm surprised by how common the perception of the need to self-censor is. I
don't see being professional and being honest and true to self as being
mutually exclusive. I'm going to write more about that once I send these
book proofs in...
thinking about what I should (and shouldn't) write and just sit down and
write, I do my best work.
I'm surprised by how common the perception of the need to self-censor is. I
don't see being professional and being honest and true to self as being
mutually exclusive. I'm going to write more about that once I send these
book proofs in...
7 months ago
in Living Creatively on Kim Werker Blog
Two things really speak to me in this post: the feeling of not fitting in, and the absence of rules for the creative life.
I always felt I didn't fit in (and I think it was because I wasn't a "standard" child - too smart, too sensitive, too obsessed by reading and writing...). Moving to another country helped me tremendously with this - there is just no way you're going to fit in as a foreigner, so you might just as well live happily with your own originality.
Rules for the creative life? There certainly are no standardized rules for the creative life, but I start more and more to think that you need rules, and that you have to make your own. I need rules, or routines, to make place for creativity in my day-to-day life, and not get bogged down in mundane tasks and family obligations to the point where I don't feed my creative soul.
Lots of things to think about here...
I always felt I didn't fit in (and I think it was because I wasn't a "standard" child - too smart, too sensitive, too obsessed by reading and writing...). Moving to another country helped me tremendously with this - there is just no way you're going to fit in as a foreigner, so you might just as well live happily with your own originality.
Rules for the creative life? There certainly are no standardized rules for the creative life, but I start more and more to think that you need rules, and that you have to make your own. I need rules, or routines, to make place for creativity in my day-to-day life, and not get bogged down in mundane tasks and family obligations to the point where I don't feed my creative soul.
Lots of things to think about here...
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Kim Werker
Yes, I see what you mean. We do need rules (and if not rigid rules, then at
least guidelines, boundaries, routines) in our individual lives, don't we?
We often have to make them up on our own, though, as those aren't the rules
that are handed to us (or forced upon us, depending on your perspective).
Re: your first point, I never thought of my happiness living in Canada as
being related to my feeling of otherness, but now that you mention your own
experience I realize I've had a very similar one, myself. Lots to think
about, indeed.
least guidelines, boundaries, routines) in our individual lives, don't we?
We often have to make them up on our own, though, as those aren't the rules
that are handed to us (or forced upon us, depending on your perspective).
Re: your first point, I never thought of my happiness living in Canada as
being related to my feeling of otherness, but now that you mention your own
experience I realize I've had a very similar one, myself. Lots to think
about, indeed.
9 months ago
in My Ovaries Made Me Do It on Kim Werker Blog
I honestly must say that I think reading and crocheting on your day off makes so much more sense than doing laundry and going to the bank. Your ovaries are supersmart.
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Kim Werker
You know, you make a very good point. :)
9 months ago
in Talk to Me (Us All) About Palin: Open Thread on Kim Werker Blog
All this is very interesting. I obviously have nothing to add, but it's very informative to me - esp to be able to read things in a place where things aren't totally overheated.
The strongest feeling you get from a European point of view when looking at US politics from afar is that you're absolutely clueless. We're all more or less members of the same (Western) civilization. we can communicate in the same language, the US has an enormous cultural influence through movies, TV-series, books and the Internet, so you would suppose you would be able to understand. But you don't.
However, I sometimes think this difficulty to understand is just as great between US citizens of different opinions. Right or wrong?
The strongest feeling you get from a European point of view when looking at US politics from afar is that you're absolutely clueless. We're all more or less members of the same (Western) civilization. we can communicate in the same language, the US has an enormous cultural influence through movies, TV-series, books and the Internet, so you would suppose you would be able to understand. But you don't.
However, I sometimes think this difficulty to understand is just as great between US citizens of different opinions. Right or wrong?
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Kim Werker
That's a tough question. I think to a certain extent you might be right, but even more liberal Americans can be liberal in a specifically American way that doesn't mesh with European perspectives. My perception is that the status quo in the US is so qualitatively different than it is overseas, and to a more muddied extent in Canada, and so it's hard to compare the nature of differing opinions within the US to those between the US and other countries.
gardening as a good diversion from aimless non-work, too.