Falling down the rabbit hole...
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 1:07PM After much wailing & gnashing of teeth, I've finally been dragged into the blog world. Well, to be fair, I haven't actually BEEN dragged. I HAVE DRAGGED MYSELF.
I blame it all on twitter. I have a friend who told me I'd love twitter. It's exactly the way you write already, she said. Short. To the point. Even better, she told me that she was on twitter, too, so we could tweet (or twit. It's sometimes a fine line between the two...) back & forth.
It was fun. Three days into it, she stopped twittering. She said she had too much other stuff going on to keep up with it. I, having already proven multiple times before that I have more enthusiasm than sense, continued.
I find I get a bit anxious if I don't twitter at least once in a day. It's like twitter scratches some itch buried deep in my genetic code. It's raw instinct. Like a dog peeing on a tree, or a child drawing on a sidewalk with chalk, or my wife, Ellen, shopping in second-hand stores. We tweet because we must.
(Yeah. I know. That's a dark view. But how else do you explain the fact that people send somewhere on the order of 150 freakin' million tweets a day? This is definitely not a sign that human beings are rational...)
Anyway, I'm here. Kicking & screaming in a half-hearted way. But looking forward to unveiling bits & pieces of what keeps me occupied on a daily basis. A guide on how to tell stories. Quick drawings & stories from my notebooks. Paintings, before & after & then a bit after that (since I can never quite be satisfied with before. The more I paint, the more I understand the painter who once said that the painting would be well & truly done when he was dead.) Audio fables. New works from my secret band (oh yeah! That's a story in & of itself.). General mouthiness. (This is something my family has known for a long while & I have to admit, they've done a pretty good job of hiding it from the general public. But they're tired of it now & they've set me free into the world with only a hand-written 3x5 index card in my pocket giving my address & a phone number to call in the event that someone finds me raving on a soapbox somewhere...)
I say good luck to all of us. I'll be praying for you...
Until next, with love,
Brian
Santa Barbara
Reader Comments (2)
I first found your stories in a Kindermusik book (I used to teach Kindermusik classes to preschoolers). I am deeply touched by the special way you understand people - and communicate that understanding.
I will be looking forward to what you have to say!
Debbie from Utah
That's so funny, since I was just going through my files finally (after our last move) & I ran across that same Kindermusik book. I was pleased to see that the stories still seemed to fit quite well. So, thanks for your words...
I'm looking forward to seeing how it all goes, too :-)
with love, Brian