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Hi crew, awoke today with scattered thoughts about chores, duties, follow-ups, etc. It was hard to drive out these "unwanted intrusive thoughts." Apparently, someone has named this and so it's written about on the blogs.
Here's the deal: choose my thoughts. Then I thought, what's my currrent project to fantasize about about? Pause. I repeated the question. Silence. Huh, I'm without a project.
So I then spent a very merry 10 minutes thinking about what my project will be. And the what last one was. The last one was copying quotes from Patricia Highsmith's diary. This round, I spent 20 minutes yesterday searching for a list the questions Lynda Barry pops on every page of his graphic philosophy book What It Is: the formless thing that gives things form. Ha! Now here's a project. I'll do it as a discussion prompt on Goodreads. Barry early in has a page on ... unwanted intrusive thoughts. She doesn't name them like that, but that what they were.
Having a creative project to hide in makes me a much happier, less grumpy, more patient person.
Off to Goodreads to get started. Revu2
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