Manto de Gemas
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I'd been forcing myself to get up early over the days of the week, and found myself increasingly tired. The idea is to develop a routine, and that the first step is to have the time available. Sleeping in seems to vanish the working hours of a day.
33> A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 34and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit. - Proverbs 24:33
On saturday I slept in a little, then wrote my journal, then I went out to see a movie, expecting it to be maybe an hour and a half.
Robe of Gems
The movie was 2 hours, plus time for the director to come out and give a talk and then do a QandA. It was funny, before the movie she told this story about a hunter trying to catch a rabbit in a clearing. The rabbit is so fast that the hunter can't even get close, and eventually the hunter sits down tired. The rabbit comes over and taunts him, then the axe head flies out and kills the rabbit. The moral is something about letting go of self direction and effort. I think it's hilarious, it seems like such a contrived ending for a story about not forcing an outcome. I like it as the prelude to a festival film, it was a way of the director saying "Don't try to force a hard conclusion out of watching this movie, just watch it and let the axe fly as will". The name Robe of Gems (Manto de Gemas in spanish), according to a the director, comes from a buddhist saying about life being like a robe of gems, reflecting itself all about and in each facet. I can't find this saying anywhere online.
The movie was sobering, banal, and deeply sad. Good soundtrack.
Spent what felt like an hour and a half in vintage store
After the movie I went to buy a jumper from a vintage store I'd been wanting to visit, Lost and Found Market. It's a big wharehouse that hosts smaller stalls from different vintage collectors. I eventually bought a very thin, large denim shirt and I'm happy with it. A lot of stuff was well overpriced and not in good condition, they even wanted to sell "vintage" caps for $35.
Always more to say
I didn't manage to write a journal on Sunday, now I'm playing catchup and it's frustrating, taking too long. I'm going to weave most of today, I didn't get nearly as much done as I hoped I would on friday and saturday. I was thinking yesterday about how I need to be careful not to keep setting over the top expectations then feeling like I've fallen short when other important life tasks shift in and take up time. I didn't do the weaving, but I helped Matt and Harry move, I saw some great movies, I went out for dinner, I bought a new shirt, I cooked an awesome soup. We only have on life and these are the wonderful things we get to do with it. A robe of gems. (I know this is not the context of the film, at all, but it's a nice phrase all the same.)
lots of stuff
Been thinking about what projects to pick up after weaving - specifically thinking about cataloging my belongings as a personal library and audit of my material world. This could be done with a custom made tool, covering UX, Dev, product ownership and also practicing sharing resources and alternative modes of ownership. It would be built to connect in a p2p model with other databases, allowing groups to share their libraries. I feel burdened by objects, and I loathe the economic conditions that make consumption the only financiale model. The first step for this project is to do some research into what already exists out there like this, and research into what personal auditing other people have done. Knowing how software devs think, I know I'm not the only one to have thought of this.