Idea: A Cup A Day
One reason I don’t blog regularly is because I don’t really have a hopper of ideas, and maybe more detrimental, I don’t have plans of building one. Unfortunately, I do really enjoy writing when I have something to write about! That premeditated creative energy usually gets invested in musical creations rather than blogging, and as a full-time-job-parent-of-young-children-and-everyday-victim-of-the-attention-span-crisis, well it just never really happens! I’m largely okay with this. I find that I don’t have a lot to say.
That is…I don’t have much to say unless I get started about something else. So often I find that my best ideas - sparks that really feel capable of ignition - occur when I’m already in the room. Most evidently I find this when recording music. Often those best ideas happen when reacting to something else.
Completely separate from this, I’ve been working on my caffeine intake. Actually, my everything intake. I’ve been having a bit of a fling with (dramatic word incoming) gluttony and been eating/drinking out of stress or anxiety that I think is generally due to having a lot of energy but nowhere to put it. I’ve long known this about myself, and to control for calories, all that nervous energy just goes into low-calorie modern-nectar of the working world: coffee.
So I had an idea. What if I posted my single cup of coffee to the blog every day? This gives me a reason to show up to the text editor and maybe reflect on some of the other goings-ons of my life, or simply dial into appreciating something I love with a healthy boundary instead of using it to try and patch a hole.
I am trying to curb my foolhardyness for making ambitious commitments by labeling this post labeling this post as an idea. We’ll see if it actually happens!
Happy brewing JG
