As a scanner, I want to learn things. I’m open-minded and I like to explore different cultures and different points of view. I want to see how the other guy sees it. I didn’t even think about it at the time, but I had all those traits within me, working for me, during my tours to South Korea, when I was in the Air Force.
One day during winter in Seattle in 2012, I was driving from Redmond to Kenmore and it was snowing. It was a Winter Wonderland.
I was listening to the Bob Rivers Show on KJR (95.7) FM radio. It was early in the morning. As I listened to Bob, Joe, Spike and Jody humorously banter back and forth as they did, it reminded me of the jovial, good-spirited bantering that I could always count on from my family- grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles-whenever we all got together for holidays, or any occasion really. So it felt like home.
Scanner’s Dilemma: Wanting To Do It All.
Sometimes I make myself crazy!
I have about a dozen projects in my mind that I want to do. But I don’t really have to do any of these things. They’re all dreamed up by me and are self-imposed tasks. No one asked me to do them or told me to do them.
What I glean from all of this, is, it actually places a burden on me and creates a false sense of urgency in my mind that I have “important” work waiting. When I look at it this way I think to myself, “This can’t be healthy!”. Continue Reading…
There are times when the “light” goes on in my mind and I exclaim, either vocally or silently, “Yes!! That’s it!”
To me, that is a rapturous, wonderful moment. It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for. It’s the time when one or more related thoughts culminate and a brand new idea is born in my mind and I can’t wait to get started on it. Continue Reading…
I’m not really a designer but I have designed some things.
Also I’m a beginning woodworker with little actual hands-on experience.
Likewise, I’m not really a songwriter but I’ve written about 30 songs.
I have a similarly strong interest in photography but it has never been the main focal point for me.
But somehow, whenever I’m designing something, building something, writing songs, or taking pictures, I never feel like I should be doing something else.