Notes to Self
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I'm not sure when the category 'Notes to Self' announced itself as a mode of textual accumulation, but there are file folders with that title that stretch back to at least the 1980s (fruits of desk cleanup iterations), and I've been writing down thoughts on pieces of paper and in various shirt-pocket notebooks for years. Generally I recognize myself in the fragments of text, and there are recurrent themes. I'm not sure just what the utility might be of trying to Collect and Curate such ephemera and maundering... just have to try to sort out the messages contained in the various form factors, and attempt to assess the possible uses.
Yesterday I started to read through the entries in the last 4 months of yellow pads (9 of them), to rationalize and expand a /lifebox link. The effort wants to be more systematic. more reflective, maybe even more analytical... and I'm thinking about how to orchestrate that endeavor.
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...and now I need to scan about six months of those same pages... RealSoonNow
That puts me in mind of the range of other material that can be read as 'Notes to Self', which feature various approaches to self-reflection ...oookblog of course. The years of Convivium writings. And all those daybooks and note-takings, now shelved together on either side of the Desk in the barn,
So what is this corner of /lifebox actually good for? It occurs to me that it wants an enhanced Introduction on this page, documenting the sequence/succession of subject matter and mode and register ...documented, and understood more or less as a record/history of my truffling of the Infoverse, driven by curiosity and imagination and enthusiasm. It's undisciplined and proud of it.
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The current Advancing Frontier (bleeding edge?) is at Conundrum, which seems to be manifesting as a sort of continuation of Convivium. I have no idea if Conundrum will find a public, or how long it will seem meet to continue its construction, but it seems to be scratching the itches of the moment.
Here's today's latest Surprise:
So what is this? Where does it FIT 20+ years after I collected it? I had linked the mp3 on the electronic syllabus to the iteration of Cross-Cultural Studies in Music that I taught at W&L in Winter 2005. The 'first assignment' was to listen to Jon Udell's proto-podcast. I hadn't listened to it myself ever since then... and I'm blown away. blown back to the Musics territories I've spent so much time in over the years... So the question of the moment is: how do I weave Musics back into my Octogenarian Reckoning?