Wow, June of last year.

As you can see by the date stamp of the previous entry -  - I’ve obviously fallen behind in the whole ‘commenting in my blog’ thing.  I don’t anticipate that I’m suddenly going to change that, but thought I should explain why.

It’s been quite a year of ups and downs for me, both personally and professionally.  I’m not going to enumerate them here in any great detail - suffice as to say I’ve grown a lot as a person, and hopefully, I think, as a designer.  Part of that is learning to let go of the past and the constant preparations for the future - and to remember to live in the present, something both Mindfullness and attending Burning Man has taught me.  This isn’t to say that I don’t design for the future, or immediately ignore the past; if anything, design is more about applying the right tools, the right answers, the right techniques and to balance all of these factors and so many more, both past, future and obviously present.  Hopefully consideration of all these factors can blend into an admixture we call ‘the proper solution’.

I’ve often thought blogs - and in particular, design related blogs - were part of the answer to help us find those solutions, both on a professional level, but on a personal level as well.  But my  interactions and relationship with blogs has gone from composing to consuming, from writing one to reading more - and if anything, taking more pictures rather than just being consumed by words.  Design is visual, and I must keep that sense of end purpose in what I’m doing.  I’m sure you can do both create and consume blogs - there are plenty of people who do.  And that’s just it - there are plenty of people doing it, and if anything, probably far too many.  I don’t want to contribute to the glut, the din, the massive amount of ‘blub blub’ that goes along with citizen empowerment and writing; as it is, I find it most difficult to keep up with the professional stuff that I have to read.  I don’t want to add my voice unless it’s important; for things of a more personal nature I have other venues (like my Flickr account, like personal journals) which I’ve turned to since they’re the proper venue and hold the proper context for such discussions.

I’ll still post here, from time to time, but if past posting history (of this and other journals) is any indication, it will only be with well composed posts, not these little link dump like posts or posts that link to pictures but no mention of context (hello, a random picture of fruit - why, um, it’s nice to…read you?).  Life is too hurried, and too short for context-less information; if I by some chance don’t give you enough context, please let me know.  Hopefully I’ve provided a little here in this post which explain why this blog is here in a more ‘invisible’ state.