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Monday, November 08, 2004
I've been wondering if the degree of difficulty of any undertaking is in proportion to what you learn from it. My singing teacher (who is teaching me far more than honing my voice) keeps reminding me that when you cause by allowing, what you are doing happens easily. Then, I find, the analogies of my happenstance flow riverlike with my actions. What I'm focusing on: resuming my learning of the guitar, now that I have one, and my learning of juggling, and I'm working on a painting, and planning a trip from Japan (where I have been living for almost nine months) around the lands of the earth, making my way by boat, bus, train and foot back to the states. So, if anyone will be passing through China, Thailand, Nepal, India, or Africa during March and April, or if you know of anything great in those places, let me know. And then in late April to May: Spain, France, Germany, Holland, England and Ireland. So far I'm seeing that people are far more similar than different. Is that an obviousity? Where I live there are almost no books in English, so I read what friends give me or what I can find. Recently it's been Ursula K. LeGuin and will now be William Faulkner, Light in August. Have you noticed while browsing blogs any themes that happen during that day's browsing? I had a God and Virginia one, and an all music, all the time one, and an America Is Like Rome/Lost Symbols of My Childhood. An amusing detail: Joe has a chart of the states listed by average IQ (a generally untrustable test but somewhat interesting to note) in descending order, and with it, which states Kerry won in and which Bush did. If this chart is correct, Kerry won in literally all the states with the highest average IQ. It would be funnier if Bush had lost.
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