All who wander are not lost… Tolkein
I find I can spend far too much time just wandering on the web, just as I used to get lost in the stacks in the library.
It's like the "yellow car" curse on people with ADD… far to easy to be distracted.
I find I can spend far too much time just wandering on the web, just as I used to get lost in the stacks in the library.
It's like the "yellow car" curse on people with ADD… far to easy to be distracted.
My favorite way to procrastinate. I think, though, that library stacks are more satisfying, and my theory is that when one uses more of one's body to wander, there is a more satsifying release. Therefore, it is possible to reach a more natural end, so to speak, and to stop, books teeming in one's arms like unwieldy half wild things, each baring edges like teeth, or promising to tell a joke with a quote or anecdote on the back cover. The internet, however, pulls one out of one's body, and I find I'm almost always less focused than when I started. By the way an ADHD diagnosis for me was an offshoot to testing my son when he was little and I occasionally find the definitions useful Not for too many reasons besides a short cut to describing certain behaviors, weaknesses, strengths, challenges, in short, my humanity!
I live distracted. Since 1989, when I first used the internet before the World Wide Web Explosion I have been distracted by the Internet. I Gophered, and Jugheaded my way around the net with a monochrome green screen computer whereas today I use a flat screen, wireless keyboard Googling my way across multiple vistas of new horizons and I still get distracted by it all. Hooray for distractions.
Distractions are great, except when I'm on a mission! And my mission is a show at http://www.galleryinthefield opening Dec. 6th…