Posts tagged with “Quaker” and “NaNoWriMo”
Displacement activity
OK well, so I sang the Verdi and that was great fun. The best part is that unlike the first time where I went through months of weekly practices learning the piece and practicing (along with some singing lessons as I was new to singing then) this time it was one rehearsal a week in advance, then a rehearsal in the morning and sing my heart out for the concert in the evening! What fun! My stepmother says I am getting a "repertoire" and I tell her that is pretentious nonsense! But it is lovely to get the chance to sing something you enjoyed again.
That recording is from a personal MP3 player with on board mic that I slipped in my pocket at the last minute - highly experimental and I am amazed I got ANYTHING! There were mics all over and I'll probably HAVE TO buy a couple of CD's for family and friends (they'd kill me if I didn't).
But all of this is displacement writing! I am MEANT to be making a start on my novel writing month! You would not believe the things I have found that I just "have to do" before I sit down with the document open and type! I have taken the rubbish out (early), done three loads of laundry (one a half load), formatted a laptop for a friend, burnt a knoppix DVD for testing, tidied my cable suitcase and filed a laptop charger...phoned a friend... emailed Quaker friends! All of these things I would normally leave for a more appropriate time or leave until they HAD to be done.
And now I am writing to my blog, because I have the dual excuse that this is also NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) where I am supposed to post daily for November. That will not be hard to do (look at the count for October in the Archive!).
Oh yes - I also wasted time changing a poem to "draft status" and seeing if I could install the Chyrp extension so that I could link you guys to a file where I'd put my novel to date - luckily for you that is broken but I may still do it by hand... esp. if there are more than a couple of comments expressing interest in that.
Last but not least at Quaker meeting I was (finally) able to take responsibility for the website! And I even repaired a linkback to it from London Quakers - so some of my displacement activity has been useful. That site will start to get overhauled as soon as I have come up with content and it has been approved by the elders.
But enough keystrokes blogging - they all need to go to my novel really! I have a name for the lead character - he is going to be Frederick Allsop, but he will prefer the Pseudonym of Anton Fehrnzeit! So when things look weird on here with some blog entries if those names feature (or Lydia Dypchyk, the comic love interest!) then you can guess it is a "novel" blog. I shall tag them all Fehrnzeit - if that helps...
05:23 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: NaNoWriMo, NaBloPoMo, Quaker, writing, FehrnzeitA little light religion (honestly!)….
Has it really just been a week since I last made a “religious” post?, It seems so. This is quite a time of change, and the clocks moving from BST to GMT accentuates that to me. But I want to share a couple of aphorisms and a context that gives them a more serious context. So again this will be one of the more (gently) didactic posts.
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To start with the light side - two jokes:-
What do you get if you cross a Druid with a Bhuddist?
a. Someone who hugs trees that are not there.
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There is a Bhuddist monk on vacation in New York, He goes up to a Hot Dog vendor and says, “Make me one with everything”.
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OK three jokes technically!:-
The hot dog salesman takes the £100 bill the monk offers and passes him the hot dog with all the trimmings. The monk waits and then says, “Where’s my change?” to which the vendor replies, “The only change can come from within”.
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Now, I share these not just because I think they are very funny, but to make an observation. I think I may tell both these jokes to someone next time they ask if I am a Quaker. If they laugh at neither I shall not try to answer their question, but enquire as to their spiritual progress. If they laugh at the Druid one only I shall proceed with caution. If they laugh at both I shall enquire which they prefer, and should it be the Druid one I shall proceed with caution, but if they prefer the Hot Dog joke I shall observe that our humour is as one and they may be closer to Quakerism than they know!
On a seperate subject I apologise for the number of posts which were purely about the site breaking - and I am going to set a lot of them private now - so the detrirus may no longer be visible.
There are also to be some odd posts coming in Movember connected with my NaNoWriMo project, but I have decided to separate these by making them an unusual time - so more than three years away from the here and now, that may confuse you at first, but hopefully shall become clear!
Addendum:- My plan seems flawed in it’s thinking having told the jokes to a number of Quaker acquaintances with varying results now!
05:44 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: religion, Quaker, joke, NaNoWriMo
