“You write about what you know”
- Larry David
Hello, and welcome to my Segue-musings blog! A whirl-wind misadventure of discontinuous thoughts and abstract notions.
Having decided to treat my rapidly approaching unemployment with delight rather than despair, I thought that this would probably be the best time to take up writing a blog again, after the futility of my last one. I’ve been contemplating this for a while, but have never had the time nor the content for one. Until now.
The prospect of leaving work has lead me to a) foresee large chunks of unoccupied time in my future and b) not feel concerned about blogging whilst still at my current place of employment (what are they going to do – fire me?). As for content…
Well, if you can only really write about what you know, I have a problem in that I know a great deal about very little (or is it very little about a great deal?) – but the little I know likes to rattle incessantly around my spacious mind. The desire to empty my thoughts into a more solid format seems pointless, as they’re so poorly structured and contain little real substance. But then that’s the entire point of this blog.
My challenge over the next days, weeks, months, or however long my attention span extends, is to record abstractly connected musings. Rather than what I know, I shall write about what I think, possible why I think it, and what I discover by this process. I love to play the game where I retrace my conversations with Mr. H., discovering how we ended up talking about Filofax after originally humming Tubular Bells together (a story for another day). Now we can see in written form how that transition occurred!
Please leave a comment at the bottom of any post where you performed a segue of your own. This is an opportunity for us to learn how our minds form connections between subjects and, in turn, to learn how oddly my mind works in general.
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