Connected/Disconnected
I’m getting ready to go to a meeting. Most grown-ups moan and groan about having to go to meetings. I love it! As a writer, most of my “work day” is spent sitting alone at my desk, alone behind the pages of a book I’m reading for research, or alone, staring at the sky-watching birds and thinking about air powers (Yes…this is where I get my ideas) So, going to a meeting and being engaged with other people is very exciting!
Two years ago I ran for office…and won! I now serve on the Corning City Council as the Councilman for the 2nd ward. Woo Hoo! I’ll save my musings on the value of being engaged in local goverment for another day.
Today I’m thinking about how important it is to have times when you are engaged and connected to things, and times to retreat and disconnect. My alone time is so important to my work as a writer. And yet, equally as important, are things like this meeting (Oh! It’s in 15 minutes…I’d better hurry this post up!)
When I’m around other people, I feel like I’m filling my well. “The well,” is what I dip into when I need a new character trait, dialog, a touching moment. Perhaps while I’m sitting in this meeting I’ll notice the way the guy on the other side of the table picks his fingernails. Or the way the woman next to me seems cloaked in perfum, or the way someone else’s laugh lsound like a lawnmower!
School is just around the corner and I know many of you will spend all day with a LOT of other kids/grown-ups.
What do you do to balance that out? What is your favorite kind of alone time? Reading? Walking? Sitting outside, staring at clouds and thinking about air powers? I’d love to know your favorite ways to both connect and disconnect!
juliagulia193 says:
Wow, my dads a cheif for the NYC fire department and evidently he doesn’t, um, shall I say like, some of his bossess, so he loathes meetings. Yesturday I went to the Yankee Stadium and it has the same autmosphere as the old one thank God!
Lee Welles-author says:
I just read a book called, “Heat,” by Mike Lupica. It is a YA book about a young guy with a fantastic pitching arm. He lives near Yankee Stadium (I’m guessing the old one) It is fairly suspenseful and makes you think about the game of baseball.
gaiagirls101 says:
i just got done watching the movie 17 again it was hilarious
the only thing i was disappointed in was the fact that zac efron wil forever be known as troy bolton little kids love him, and are gonna want to see every movie hes in. the thing is that this movie is a little to much sexual content in it for small children. my dad wouldn’t let my little sister watch it even though she begged to watch the movie with troy in it. she went to bed crying.
thehorsegaiagirl says:
I LOVE reading. I go to a local stable where I work with the horses using natural horsemanship, and sometimes I’ll be with a horse and it will just get really peaceful, and I swear I can hear him/her speak to me. Animals really do have a lot to say!
Tessa_of_the_Sea says:
The thing is, computer is my way to disconnect. I’m working on that.
But otherwise, I like to either ride to my friends house who lives 5 miles away on my bike, or lead a procession of sheep to the front lawn for some old fashioned lawn mowing and a book. ( I love my little wooly babies ^-^)