Day Seventeen
Greetings dear
readers. This is being written on my
iPad in a hotel reception. It is going
to be tough to get this done as I have been busy all day running a symposium
and now I have to get ready to fly back to Finland.
I think that in the
end the day was worthwhile and useful, but it has not been without its problems
and frustrations. However, we are done
and all was well in the end.
The day has made me
feel really happy and lucky to have such great friends who take time out of
their own schedule to meet me and support me and if any of you are reading this
(you know who you are) thank you.
Yesterday, in the
comments section I was asked about the name of the whole blog, (Paradigm Shift) a really good
question as it was chosen some time ago because it works for me on a number of
levels. The intention at the time I
created the blog back in Sept 2014 was to write on that topic as part of a MOOC
I was taking . Despite good intentions that never really
happened. Then the blog started to be used
for an assortment of other random posts until the challenge can along. I thought about a new blog just for this
challenge, but then decided to use the same one and to just see what emerged.
I am now slowly coming
to some former ideas about the direction that this blog will take when the
writing challenge has finished. Indeed perhaps before I finish if I get some
time to really sit down and think about what it is I want to say and how I want
to say it.
I am going to admit to
feeling a bit apprehensive about that and this is why I need and want to think
as I feel I will be really laying myself open and putting myself out to be
flamed and trolled and all the outset delightful online anti-social behaviors
that exist.
I will do, but I just
want to think carefully and try to express myself and my message clearly.
So there we are for
now as I sit and wait frustrated for a courier.
Later
The courier turned up
and that part ended well. Now I have to
grab a little sleep before I get up at 2:30 am to go to the airport. Dubai airport at the time of the morning will
most likely be really busy and I am dreading the crowds and the heat and so
on.
With time travelling
tomorrow I hope to have time to formulate a more constructive post with more content
for you, that is, unless I just fall asleep during the trip. I do
have some ideas floating around in my head and I need to work on those a
bit. This stream of consciousness stuff
is staring to annoy me now. So – take
care and good night. Abide.
I hope you slept on the flight. I know these return trips to Dubai wear you out. It makes you double or triple duty compared to visiting places you haven't lived.
ReplyDeleteI found this interesting section on stream of consciousness in Jose Saramago's "The History of the Siege of Lisbon" today. I thought I'd share it with you.
ReplyDelete...the truth is that the person who thinks only knows what he is thinking and not why he thought it, we think from the moment we are born, I suppose, but do not know what our first thought might have been, the one from which all others have subsequently come, the definitive biography of each one of us would be to ascend the river of thoughts to its primeval source, and presumably change our life, were it possible to retrace their course, to suddenly have another thought and pursue it, so that we might arrive at the day in which we find ourselves...