Free Writing

Ok, let me give this a shot...
Tree is a writer. She also teaches writing and one of the things she has her students do is something called "free writing". Living in Ojai, California, I know quite a few writers. Poets, authors, journalists, screenwriters, ghostwriters, and many of them engage in this practice of free writing. It is when you sit down with pen in hand or at the keyboard and just write. Whatever flows out is what you get. That is what I am doing right now. almost without thinking about it.
The coffee is really good today. we got a new filter for our Brita water pitcher and the coffee is fresh ground from the Ojai Coffee Roasting Company. I am sitting in the garden with my laptop watching the morning sun streak through and bathe the "volunteer" squash plants that seem more prolific than last year. We have been composting for over 2 years and have amended the soil in the vegetable garden with the resulting "black gold" this summer. There are a lot of tomato plants that have popped up and a lot of squash. I am curious to see what types they are.
Yoga class this morning. I need it...I am feeling kind of stiff.
I saw the video live feed on CNN that was posted several days ago claiming that the hole in the bottom of the sea (sing it!) in the Gulf of Mexico was plugged by BP. The plugging failed because the oil is spewing out again. That is sick, it makes me sick, and it is making other people even sicker. The cleanup people are either brave, stupid, or both to work on that cleanup. I wonder if in my lifetime I will ever see a world not dependent on petroleum products for energy and whatever else they use the by-products for.
I had rehearsal last night for "Other People's Money". It is a play I am in at the Ojai Art Center Theater. It opens on Friday the 13th of August and closes on September 11th. Both are strange days, one being rumored to be unlucky and the other, well....
I am wondering if I will post this when I am done writing it. After all, the blog IS entitled "Random Ramblings" and it is themindofbuddywilds.blogspot.com so I guess it is appropriate to let whatever is on my mind to flow out and then post it.
Tree and I both need dental work done.
My appointments at the salon are sporadic at best today. I remember a time when my book was full from start to finish but the economy has hit my industry badly. I am trying to fill the in between time to learn about more about how the internet works. Specifically, how the economics of the internet works. See those ads to the right? They cost me nothing to have them there. They cost you nothing to click on them (unless you spend money after you surf to the ad-site). Yet, each time someone clicks on them I get a few cents in my account. I have been aware of ads on websites for years but I never really thought about it much. In fact I, like many of you reading this usually ignore the ads. From now on though, if it is a friends website, I am going to click on a few ads to move some money around the economy.
Speaking of the economy, (and I am obviously no economist) I wonder if everyone acted like there was no recession or depression if there would be one. I do wonder that. Seems to me that the root of it all is a lack of spending. If people do not spend money at the salon for example, I do not have money to spend at stores, restaurants, etc. If I do not spend money on goods, then the manufacturers do not sell their goods. The result is that the salespeople, route drivers, warehouse workers, packaging plant workers, machinists, and everyone involved in bringing those goods to market are effected. Am I getting this right in my own feeble way? It seems to methat if you want to save your job that you should spend money. Can that be right? I have always spent MY money...maybe that is why I don't have any...
OK...1/2 hour till my yoga class so I am going to close this blog, post it, and take a shower.
"Free writing"...kinda freeing.....try it sometime!
Namaste!