Two things:
Today I was so happy to see an update to ramahughes.com. I just love, love, love to see his artwork and then even more to read his words, his stories, his experiences and the way he seems savor every drop of life. I read the new updates, and then like usual, randomly clicked on a couple old ones. This entry told about a message he picked up at his church. I hope you can quickly visit and read it. It’s about being true to yourself and it got me thinking and rolling the quote around in my mind all day. This afternoon I was driving when a serendipitous song came on, a song I’ve heard as background music bajillions of times but never really listened to it. I just looked it up and it is Gavin Degraw’s I Don’t Want To Be and he says “I don’t want to be anything other than me” You can see the lyrics here and I don’t know if that is how he intended to have the lyrics interpreted but right now it seems to fit so well with Ramas entry.
And then totally unrelated, someone asked me today, “do you think better sitting or lying down?” and without a moments hesitation I knew my response was lying down. Since I was a kid I always read and drew lying down. As I grew I always did homework in bed. On so many occasions when I would be at school and taking an important test or needing to write an essay I would wish I could just lay down, my mind would be able to work better if I were lying down. It is very inconvenient to know that you think clearer when lying down, you can easily become blocked, focusing on that rather than the problem at hand. Supposedly it was a question posed in one of those “Are you right brained or left brained?” tests. I wonder what that indicates. Which way do you think better?
