Winged Words

Recent Habits
I've been reading through the Oddessy lately (surprisingly enough I can't spell it so I just left it like that). I read it on the train, during lulls at school. I'm having trouble with the meaning of "winged words." Does it mean lofty? It doesn't seem to mean any type of treachery or--hinting or anything like that. I need to think more about this.

Anyway, after quite a few LONG days at work, coaching speeches after school. Reading the Odyssey on the way home often makes me feel that I've been traveling for ages. It makes me feel exhausted when I get home, but I really love being home when I get there. Fun fun.

Computer Circumstances
The schools I've been working at either have no available internet, or are security blocked so I can't post or do anything so sorry for updates lacking.

Status of Creativity Goals etc.

Haven't played guitar or violin in a week and my fingertip callouses are already starting to fall off. I have started writing my somewhat sci-fi fiction book though. Right now I'm establishing characters. It's all written on paper, not typed, and I wonder if that's going to make it better or worse.

Happy Things
Ryan came back from his 3 day camp thingy and today we go to Ichinomiya's Bunkasai (culture festival) where we will buy ridiculous and fun trinkets that students are selling as well as eat in the restaurants they make out of their classrooms (there's a post below about this).

The leaves have started changing here, it's really gorgeous.

Kyoto (two weeks ago) was wonderful despite the fact that I am a truly terrible traveler. I really don't like crowds and other tourists and I now realize that most tourists don't enjoy many parts of touring at the time. I did get a sweet pair of jeans for the slim figure I gained (lost?) in the hospital last May.

How's that for an update? I promise something interesting once we have more internet access.

Has your mind ever been so full that it becomes impossible to empty it out? I've been following the rabbit trail of blog links to people I no longer know well as well as people I've barely met. As a result, my mind is full of images, ideas, thoughts about eternity, sin, balance and lunch. My mind is so full it can't chew and therefore can't swallow. But if I just spit it back out I'd only simply repeat what others have just said, which is not what I want to say.

It's the opposite feeling that nothing new is happening to write about, yet it has the same result.

So here's a recent pre-written thought.

I feel stuck when it comes to music recently because I can't sit with a big loud stereo and play along; nor can I go on the internet to look up music as I would like. It's striking to think that people like Stephane and Django had neither of those things and their creativity was/is overwhelming.

Maybe conveniences today are a reason frequently heard music is getting so repetitive? Maybe I need to use this as an opportunity to test how well I actually do know my guitar and violin. I may see just how well I can create on them and make music without an interfering style pre-playing in my brain.

Something I wrote for Ryan when I realized what an amazing man he is and how a relationship well done only strengthens our ability to reflect God.

Ampersand
You and me as we
Make a better picture of God
Than alone
So long I've worked on my own.


I know it's not that great. But comparing it with many other wordy things I've written which could be considered poetry, this one is my favorite because it captures everything that should be said with much less words than it normally takes me. It also promotes my view of what a relationship should be. Note I didn't write aspire to be--because even at our worst, we're better together than not.