Chasing Shadows
April 30, 2008That, how it feels at the moment , one task completed and another sweeps into replace it.
I’d get on faster if I stopped procrastinating about the work that needs to be done, that and writing blog posts.
See ya later.
I’m pretty sure the Uphilldowndale blog is work worth doing . . . hope you’ll continue to feel that way, too. Treat it like good jazz. Just vamp along for a few posts, then let rip with an amazing solo once every week or so. Or whenever, we’re flexible on that.
This blogging thing is good discipline for writers, but it’s also hard on us. Normally we don’t show people anything but the amazing solos, and those just don’t happen every day. Mostly what happens is solid, everyday journey(wo)man prose, with an occasional howler we’d like to call back and burn, then bury. Still . . . when the amazing solos pour out, it’s all worth it, isn’t it?
Yes, please keep going.
I love that photo. It says to me, “Nothing needs doing. All that is needed is to look … at … me.” It probably says something completely different to the farmer - a to-do list writ large on the hillside!
Terrific photo! I’m sure that you’ll always find the time to do blog posts, at least I hope so! xx
Yay, couple of tasks ticked off today, so onwards we go.
I saw a friend, who is a artist as I left work on Monday. ‘Shall I go home and do some more work, or shall I go out and take some photos of clouds? I asked. ‘Clouds, with out a doubt’ he replied hence the picture above. I also stood and watched a buzzard spiralling up on the breeze, a curlew banking over a peat clough and a yellow wagtail rock hopping in a river. I’d do well to remember that standing still is a life skill
Personally, I think it’s much healthier to be a human being, rather than a human doing
Your time breathing in nature, and stopping to take a photo of it for us, is well worth your time 
Lovely view, indeed, showing that shadows pass…
I have exactly the same considerations as you are describing. Blogging takes a lot of time, but I think that the joy that comes out of it, makes it possible to work faster, or at least makes it feel that way. I came to think about a book, “Ten thoughts about time” by Bodil Jönsson, a Swedish author. Do you know it? I found some words about it in english, at this page: http://www.soulcaffeine.com/take.html
Your post put into words the feelings I’ve been having lately. Brilliant because given to me from an outside source I can empathise instead of feeling self pity (as I have been lately) and I can say to you that your photos are breathing moments captured forever and very important. And your blogging teaches you to look and see in a different way so you can explain your world to us people in (Australia) other places in such a beautiful and accessible way. I’d miss you if you stopped.
I’ve not intention of not blogging! Just had a lot of things I had to get done rather than things I wanted to do!
The trouble is, UHDD, so many of us like to ‘look in’ and fail to leave a comment so’s u know that we’ve visited, but…………..we do!