countingspoons.com
Why "counting spoons"?
A long time ago in what seems like
another lifetime, I was a potter. I was doing a show with some
friends, and we'd travelled to the show, set up our displays, and were
waiting for the show to start. It was early in the morning.
I was worrying about whether I would have a spoon with which to eat my
lunch since I'd forgotten to bring one. After listening to me
obsess about this for a while, my friends said, " It's 9 AM and you're
worrying about dealing with lunch?!
Let it go!" I tend to have a fairly high level of anxiety as my
version of normality, but I was definitely getting out of hand.
So after that, the whole concept of needless and ridiculous
worrying about trivialities, shortened to just "spoons", became family
shorthand for "she needs to be brought back down to Earth again before
we kill her". Besides, "thereisnospoon.com" was already taken
(and
I'm not linking to it because it's really boring and wasted).
What is this website about and why
isn't it a blog? Have you no cool at all, woman?
No, I've never been cool. Now
that I'm all grownup and old, I
don't have to try or pretend to be, either. This website is a
"work in progress" which basically means it can be anything I damn well
want it to be. Right now, I think this will be a place to put
some
musings, bits and pieces of things that interest me, and other scraps
that don't really belong on my business website (Elephant Boy Computers).
Maybe it will be a good place for some family members to add their own
thoughts, too. I expect the site to evolve as time passes.
I'm not doing a blog because I hate
doing what everybody else
does. I have a problem with authority although I pretend to be
compliant. Besides, the whole "Dear Diary" quality of blogging
feels too restrictive to me. I want to do this because I feel
like
it, not because I have to. Everything else in my life is on a
"have to" basis, so this is my little corner of freedom. Too
sad. Boo hoo.
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