Distractions Are You
Jun. 4th, 2010 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotTumblr convo among Tom and the Jonathans et al. about a de Botton piece that I haven't read ('cause it's new, and I don't have time).
The division for me isn't between new and old, but between stuff that you all are talking about today on the Web etc. and projects that I pretty much am forced to embark on all alone* (at least initially). So it isn't between new to the world and old to the world but between stuff bouncing up new in my immediate circle (whether new stuff or old, since Jonathan and Tom and Chuck-Scott-George are constantly throwing in my face plenty of items that are old but new to me, or new ideas about stuff that isn't new to me, whatever) and stuff that I'm confronting without the benefit of instant commentary from my buddies.
"Projects" can mean pondering stuff I've known about a long time or can mean seeking out new-to-me info (e.g., just borrowed a selection from Thomas Aquinas from the Denver Public Library) that isn't part of the daily convo. My problem is that embarking alone doesn't give me the immediate gratification that convo with you guys gives me, though if all goes well it will give me something useful to add to the convo in my head, and that may eventually be part of the convo with you guys as well.
*Well, alone with my memories and my thoughts and my knowledge, most of which originated with or was inextricable from other people, obviously.
The division for me isn't between new and old, but between stuff that you all are talking about today on the Web etc. and projects that I pretty much am forced to embark on all alone* (at least initially). So it isn't between new to the world and old to the world but between stuff bouncing up new in my immediate circle (whether new stuff or old, since Jonathan and Tom and Chuck-Scott-George are constantly throwing in my face plenty of items that are old but new to me, or new ideas about stuff that isn't new to me, whatever) and stuff that I'm confronting without the benefit of instant commentary from my buddies.
"Projects" can mean pondering stuff I've known about a long time or can mean seeking out new-to-me info (e.g., just borrowed a selection from Thomas Aquinas from the Denver Public Library) that isn't part of the daily convo. My problem is that embarking alone doesn't give me the immediate gratification that convo with you guys gives me, though if all goes well it will give me something useful to add to the convo in my head, and that may eventually be part of the convo with you guys as well.
*Well, alone with my memories and my thoughts and my knowledge, most of which originated with or was inextricable from other people, obviously.
