What the World Looks Like in the Evening

The setting of the sun is an event that happens every day. It is something to look forward to, especially when at the beach, because the vista is so beautiful. Although the end of the day can be a bit of a downer, depending on how you look at it. Another day in the books. Another day of triumphs and failures. Another day closer to the end. But another day nonetheless. 

The sun in this picture is setting over the dunes to the west of the Atlantic ocean. 

I have been thinking about how I am going to create a post per day on here. I am not sure how I am going to do it other than just doing it. And that is probably enough. Just do it. Just write the posts. Care not what comes of them after they are written, just write them.

And so, I am just writing this.

The sun. The sunset. The experience of the end of the day. The time spent at the end of the day to reflect on the accomplishments of the day. The time to prepare for the next day. The time to enjoy the company of others in the evening. How well will things turn out in the end?

It is nearing the fall time of year, my most favorite season. I love the cool weather, and the ability to wear jeans and a t-shirt most days. I see the fall as a time of renewal, as many people see the spring. I don't know why I see the fall as the time of renewal as opposed to the spring. Probably because of school and second chances that have come along in my life during the fall season.

I spent the day yesterday making something for the basement, a stand of sorts, that I could place my computer on in the mornings in order to write these posts.

It is simple and crude, but nonetheless something that I am glad to have made. I now spend my mornings walking and creating something new to share with the world. That has been a good experience.

I have had reluctance in the past to share what I create. I will still have that reluctance, but I think it is important to share anyway, for what I am creating is what is important to me, and what is important to me is important to share.

So maybe I have reached the end of this post, and should send it on and continue tomorrow. Or maybe I have some other thing to mention before I go.

Ah yes, back to the setting of the sun....

"It's not dark yet, but it's getting there." - Bob Dylan

Last Cigarette (Original Song)

On the night I left the earth

You gave me one last cigarette

The smoke and heat just lighted up my eyes

And bringing down the horse

Was a feat of metaphysical

Proportions that I cannot comprehend

All the jokes we tell in solitude

Are meant for me and you

And the morning light will show we feel the same

When I saw you through the glass

Our eyes met for a second there

And everything around us disappeared

The heat from our fire is so strong

And it burns so bright all night long

The memory of me and you

The thought that all our dreams came true

In a life we never lived but only dreamt

And now I’m on a starship

Breaking through the atmosphere

Hitting terminal velocity alone

And how I’m finally known

Is by the stage name of Jupiter

And Mars is pissed because he’s second best

On the morning they collect

The ashes from our grave

Our funeral pyre will still be slightly warm

And I never will forget

The breath of life you gave

On the night I died inside to be reborn

The heat from our fire is so strong

And it burns so bright all night long

The memory of me and you

The thought that all our dreams came true

In a life we never lived but only dreamt

The heat from our fire will keep us warm

The heat from our fire will keep us warm

The heat from our fire will keep us warm

The heat from our fire will keep us warm

Writing, Focused

This is just as easy to write on as any other platform. My ideas and thoughts can be fleshed out here. There is nothing stopping me. The only concern I have is that there are now followers to this blog, and I am beholden to them a little bit to produce something useful. Well, let this be a proviso then, that there may not be anything useful in the pages you may or may not read.

I have realized that I was splintering my writing into three main areas. 750words.com is a great website for getting writing going. It has some unique attributes to analyze your writing when finished for the day, and you can earn badges by putting together multiple days of writing.

Blogger is a lesser platform than WordPress, but Blogger is free right now and this is where I started, so. I started nobushel because I wanted to have a record of all my writing for others to see the path from undeveloped writer to, hopefully, professional writer. A lot of the time the pre-work gets lost in the adulation around the work that breaks. I wanted a record of the shit.

Finally, I have the Google Docs, where the fiction goes for the most part. The longer works go there, the longer fiction and nonfiction. I used to put all my thoughts in Google Docs as well, but I decided I wanted a more public record of my thoughts.

And so I started nobushel.blogspot.com. Which is where you are right now.

So the real reason I am writing this post is to say that I will be refocusing my efforts on recording all my thoughts and work on this site, nobushel.blogspot.com, and the public record can take it where it may.

I started using 750words.com in order to bypass the sharing, or record my thoughts without worry of sharing too much. Well, I'm not worried about that anymore. Not many people read this, and that's what a blog is for anyway; for sharing.

Might I not always feel this way? Probably. I will probably change my mind tomorrow, but I want to move forward anyway, pushing myself a little bit more each day to write and share the writing.

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I have realized that writing is just thinking. It just happens to be that the thoughts get onto a page, and are available for reflection and interaction later on down the line. There is nothing special about writing, and insofar as it has to do with thinking, it is no more beneficial than not thinking at all. But I decided a long time ago that I enjoy writing, and that I want to continue to do it until I die. I think the same way about music. I enjoy playing and writing music and want to continue the practice into old age.

The Writing and the Posting

Well, let's get right into it, shall we?

Not sure exactly what I am going to write here today, but I think it will be beneficial. Beneficial and important are two words I use pretty frequently to describe things that may or may actually be beneficial and important.

I am trying to write a post a day, and I have been trying to write a single post for the past week and a day, and I haven't come up with anything.

So, instead of trying to push ahead and make something totally worthwhile, I decided to just write on here in the morning, instead of using 750words.com, which is my usual go to for writing.

A lot of my writing is nonsense and not very helpful (or beneficial, or important). And that is why I tend to keep it on 750words.com. A nice quiet, private setting where the nonsense that I write can live and breathe, without really impacting anyone.

But the problem there is that I want to impact people. I think some of the things I have to say can resonate with someone somewhere, and what I want most of all is to help other people through my writing.

And so, I am on here, blathering away about nonsense, while hoping that some of it, somehow, will be important for someone, somewhere.

And by "on here" I mean I am writing a post on nobushel.blogspot.com, my Google Blogger blog. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Blogger. But that is a story for a different day. I can't and won't complain that I have an opportunity to type a few letters and post it for the world to see in one step.

My goal was to write seven hundred fifty words on this blog post, but I think that I may not reach that goal this morning.

And I have to come up with a picture. Ah yes, the picture. That is always the rub. That is always or sometimes the afterthought. And it can take a good bit of time to come up with just that right picture or photograph.

So, what would the picture or photograph look like for the idea I am trying to convey today? What visual would help enhance this post, which is really about writing posts? Maybe a pen and paper.