A Revival?

A revival of sorts this is. I’ve been letting this blog languish for a bit too long here. I started to spend a lot more effort twittering small updates, and ran myself out of time to work on larger updates for the blog. At the time, I decided to add my twitter feed to the top of the blog here. I checked it, then logged-out and moved on with the busy part of life. Today I noticed that the twitter feed hasn’t updated in weeks, partially due to a configuration bug that was introduced when one of the machines where I have this blog hosted was upgraded. Argh.

So now this is fixed, and it is late, and I’m trying to write something here that makes sense and is readable. I’ve been busy with two spring musicals (Riverview High School’s Jesus Christ Superstar, and Valley High School’s Peter Pan), some on-going interaction with the New Kensington-Arnold school board, photography, woodworking, fixing broken stuff, trying to upgrade and enhance the home network, worrying about our falling-down retaining wall in the back yard, and generally trying to do a hundred things in a span of time suitable for about ten.

Last week was our third anniversary. Yay for three years! Unfortunately, I was busy with a looooong dress rehearsal for Peter Pan that evening. I had previously asked Jenny if she would be OK with me working that show, and she said yes. I did at least get her some flowers on the day, and now that the musicals are over, we’re going to do some more activities to celebrate.

I’ve lately been thinking about what I want to do and what makes me happy. I love doing all of these artsy things, but none of them can pay the mortgage (yet). I wonder sometimes if I were to put a little more effort into them if perhaps they might. If I did, would I still enjoy them as much as I do now? I’d love to do photography, sound and lighting work, and somehow have that pay the bills. That would be awesome. Maybe some computing consulting on the side, because I enjoy that, too. Or maybe do some teaching, maybe somehow teaching something that lets me integrate photography, sound, lighting, and computers. I’d like even more to open that bookstore and coffee shop that Jenny and I talk about from time to time.

I guess I want to do something that moves me. What is it that moves me? I don’t know. It is art, I guess–being creative, getting to share knowledge, enabling other people to create and be creative themselves. I don’t know what that is yet. I’ll keep looking.

jonathan