{"id":3387,"date":"2017-05-03T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2017-10-09T02:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T02:55:43","slug":"whimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2017\/05\/03\/whimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Whimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whimsy.
\nnoun: “playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor.” (OED<\/a>)<\/p>\n

To me, it speaks of playfulness, perhaps some randomness, a willingness to play along and see where things go. Perhaps somewhere between the Pkunk<\/a> and Dirk Gently<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you played the old M:tG ‘Shandalar’ computer game[1], you may remember this card<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But I’m speaking of whimsy today because I had recently noticed that I had been feeling much less of it my life, due to some stressful circumstances that (I think) have now dissipated. You may have been following my writing for a while, and this is a large part of why I have not written in months, with the few sporadic mostly-picture posts being the most that I could put together.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working with my life coach for some time now, on a number of things. One of the largest ones was finding space to create. I had spent a lot of time focusing on making physical and temporal space for creation, but had forgotten about creating the mental space, to be able to deal with distractions.<\/p>\n

I almost said ‘push away’ distractions, but similar to the discussion of Saidin and Saidar<\/a>, pushing away distractions is okay as a crutch, but being able to relax into the flow is much more powerful.<\/p>\n

Either way, I’m excited to be feeling creative again, and have some ideas[2] about how to keep this going, even through the next set of distractions that will inevitably crop up.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be an interesting year, thanks for being here with me.<\/p>\n

-Nayrb \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

[1]Still one of my favourite games of all time, and I think, even with all its faults, the best M:tG computer game.<\/p>\n

[2]Interestingly, a bunch of these are around meditation, which I feel I only discovered very recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whimsy. noun: “playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor.” (OED) To me, it speaks of playfulness, perhaps some randomness, a willingness to play along and see where things go. Perhaps somewhere between the Pkunk and Dirk Gently. If you played the old M:tG ‘Shandalar’ computer game[1], you may remember this card. But I’m speaking of … Continue reading Whimsy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,23,25,4,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}