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Maybe I'm remembering
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Last week's newsletter got delayed, so I only sent it to patrons. Patrons get a sporadic smattering of things. Sometimes I post a lot for them, sometimes I post nothing much. But they always get the newsletters first ;) You should become one.
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I'm in a season of doing, but this one feels different. It's more contemplative somehow. It isn't all output, my doing. I've been reading a lot. I haven't been documenting it all. I should change this, but I've been writing Maybe Zombies instead. Creative space isn't easy to hold on to. And writing books is hard.
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Some of my doing has an interesting degree of remembrance, there's more weight. For example, I just straightened up the sofa. I re-rolled the blankets and lined them on the back of the couch. I remembered where this came from. When I was in my early twenties, I had a mentor. She was an artist. She had lots of colorful blankets rolled and lined on the back of her couch. It looked inviting.
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Once upon a time in Australia, I met Penny Woolcock. We became friends. Over the last few years, we fell out of touch. We reconnected this past week and are making a date for a virtual meeting. I'm fantastically excited because she is a wonderful and inspiring person. She has a habit of dumping validation into my soul.
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Maybe I'm burning
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my starter slide from last week
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I've been thinking about what it means to be successful, again, because I find that I push myself a bit too much. If I'm not doing, I'm dying. Listing my accomplishments in life doesn't help me, though anyone who has things like "rescue diver certified", "jumped out of an airplane" and "homeless for a while once", on their list of "stuff I've done" clearly isn't messing around when it comes to living.
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The last few weeks I've been dumping all my energy into a collaboration I've been working on setting up for a long time. I've been part of the Open Org community for over four years now. I started working with Greenpeace because of my open source background over three years ago. I've worked to spread open at Greenpeace, mostly through the Planet 4 project. I've dabbled about with intellectual puzzles in and around various Red Hat supported communities and projects. It's only logical that I bring the two organizations together. Greenpeace + Red Hat = <3>
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Last week representatives from both the open source and the activist communities came together to kick off something undefined. It's destiny. I've been busting my ass, causing my own burn out, pushing though the barriers. Soon, it'll go wide like it did for Unicef, just a little further.
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Maybe I need help?
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