I've been having really whacked out dreams as of late. Last night I dreamt about old high school friends whom I haven't spoken with in years. One of them was getting remarried and wouldn't let Joel come to the wedding because he was mean to her. In real life, they've never actually met. In the same dream, I was watching a basketball game in the mountains with log trucks zooming past the court made of grass. Because I don't really watch sports, I decided to help out the plants. On the edge of the court were little delicate green shoots forcing their way up from the detritus of the forest floor. I started pulling away dead brown organic material to reveal the bright lovely green of new plants, when all of a sudden, I looked down at my hand. It was covered with little black beetles that were boring into my skin. I was peeling away the skin on my hand to get the creepy crawlies out.... and that’s when I woke up!
What is the moon doing right now, I wonder? And then I think to myself, "I spend way too much time online!"
As someone who seeks little visual culture through moving pictures (i.e. TV), the internet is a dangerous thing and I have gotten sucked in. Lately I've found myself with little to no studio time because of end of the semester cleaning, painting and general re-arranging. So what have I been doing? Digging deeper into the soul sucking world wide web. AAaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! This is not very mindful behavior and it has got to stop.
So this is what I do to stop wasting my precious time on the internets:
2. Ride my bike more instead of driving my car
3. Get back into morning yogacizing
4. Do something art related when I go to the studio (duh!)
5. Start a calendar of deadlines for exhibitions to enter
6. Attend a birding class on the 14th of May
7. Set a timer for Facebook and other social media
8. Draw in my sketchbook and write more often.
Any other bright ideas for not wasting time on the web are greatly appreciated! Let me know what you do to engage in the outside world.
Things I do:
ReplyDelete-Run :)
-Take days "off"- most weekends, I only check FB once or twice for a couple minutes each time and I leave my phone in my purse and only check it in the evenings.
-Eat outside. With or without a book. Breakfast outside somehow sets an awesome tone to the day.
-Play. With my kid, my pets, or just do a little dance by myself while doing dishes. Silliness is good :)