Updated: November 21, 2024
What I’m Up To
- I continue to produce two blog posts a week, typically one on Tuesday and one on Thursday. I always have blog posts in various stages of development. They start as ideas in Craft, with a topic, several preliminary thoughts and perhaps a graphic quote from Readwise. Next, they move to a MindNode mind map. When the mind map is done, I dictate a very rough first draft in Whisper Memos. That gets transferred to Ulysses, where I edit it several times. When it’s ready to publish, I upload it from Ulysses to my WordPress site. I edit the format and meta data in WordPress, then publish it when it’s time to do so.
- Over the past several weeks I’ve been reading another nonfiction book, _ The Creative Act: A Way of Being , by Rick Rubin. It’s the kind of book that needs to be read slowly, in small sections, and then chewed on. He has lots of fasinating insights into the creative process.
Adventures
- On the 20th of October, I began working two days a week as a National Park Service Ranger at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. Most of my work is doing the same things I was doing as a volunteer before: greeting visitors to the visitor center and giving them an orientation, and leading tours of the historic Launch Control Center. I’m enjoying my work and it’s not so much that it takes my time away from my blogging practice. I enjoy the social relationships I have with the staff, and view my work as serving botht the staff and the public.
- Recently, my wife Lanette and I visited the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. It’s about an hour’s drive from where we live in Rapid City, SD. It’s the site of an ancient sinkhole that trapped hundreds of ancient mammals. To date they have found the remains of 62 mammoths. I’m always wary of these kinds of places, wondering if they might be tourist traps. Fortunately, this one was legitimate and an excellent and educational way to spend a couple of hours.
Media
We’ve been watching Disclaimer on Apple TV. It’s an excellent story/thriller starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Frankly, we don’t care for many of the series on Apple TV. We’ll watch the first episode, then decide not to continue. This is one of the few that is different. I can’t tell you about it, or I would ruin it for you. I’d encourage you to take a look for yourself.
I got the idea for this page from David Sparks, aka MacSparky, who got it from Derek Sivers. I don’t like using social media for updates, so on this page I can update you as to what I’ve been doing lately