Any Given Sunday. A Lonely Day At Church
Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Yokoo in News
Sunday.
Any given Sunday is simply fine with me.
Not for what I do with it but what it does with me. It changes me; it realigns me; it calms me. Brings me at one with what I tend to forget in the midst of the week: “just what am I doing, again?” “Oh yeah, Im trying to offset the Worlds coming Polar Shift with 80% Wool and 20% Acrylic, two Knitting Needles, and a Green Mermaid.”
I had still not really decided what my (this) blog was exactly going to cover(any suggestions can be neatly folded and dumped in that box to your right) ; there was this viral-video spot I was contemplating that was brilliant on Monday, but today just made me feel cheap and used; and then there’s Urban Outfitters. Me and the little Mermaid decided to take a walk.
No particular direction, but I just needed get my bearings. I felt like I needed to realign my intentions,
I felt like I needed to recall just why I began ‘designing’ in the first place, where I plan on going and just how I plan on getting there – a path that slowly bleeds into its grass the deeper within the forest I venture to extend myself.
I deal with this by usually taking long lingering walks. I just sorta walk until I feel lost. Long dreamy walks until images and figures are intensified into a throbbing blur. Everything sorta rushes in at once until I can figure what it is I am after.
The graphics on books, the ideas pinched in people’s faces, pages in magazines, and of course the beautiful array well dressed men and women that line the streets like flowers.
When I had suddenly gained slight awareness, I found myself on a wooden street bench outside of a department store. It was surprisingly busy for being so early on Sunday. Maybe it was the weather.
Maybe it was the fact that the women coming and going were too remembering their point of reference. By the looks on their faces the previous night had had them questioning some ‘woeful‘ decisions as well. It made me laugh. But ever so quietly. I was, you know, at Church.
Yokoo.
First of all a huge congratulations on your range for UO. Thats so exciting and you totally deserve it for all your hard work and you general wonderfulness! Your new blog is great Your writing is beautiful and inspiring. I’m glad that you have found what nature intended you to do/be. It is encouraging for me, who is still searching! I also loved the idea of your long solitary walk. I can’t take long walks now because I’m ill but it has reminded me that if I am to find what nature intends for me I need to take time out alone just to think and let my thoughts wander. I haven’t done that in a while. Thanks for the great writing, I’ll definitely be following you and adding you to my blogroll. Keep up the good work! :)
youre moving away from flickr? or just your flickr blog?
as ever, i await your next move with breath that is bated
Neither, Steve.
This is just my ‘official’ Blog, as many people
already feel flickr is.