The ocotillo’s arms catch the sun’s rays, storing them deep in the cool desert ground below. A ritual as old as the mountains.

Story at: https://hmmburger.com/bo/wheel-me-out

Having fun on the internet: https://hmmburger.com/observatory

Often times we get hung up on where we should be that we forget where we are and where we have been.

I have been working on an experimental thought management system. A place to keep track of abstract goals, measurable tasks, and floating ideas. A springboard of action and simple reminder or what we are interested in at the moment. A place for thoughts that have announced their arrival or intentions of arrival.

I have finally started to lay the real foundational work on this system which is an abstraction of my physical and digital systems that I have been using to manage my life and to work on my time blindness.

The current state is further along than any previous iteration and it is responding to many of the recent thoughts I have been having around design, development, and creativity. It may not be the most useful state, but it has reminded me, I am making progress.

Sometimes we make progress and it may not be exactly what we want, but it’s progress.

The thing I have been reminding myself is, “I’m further along than I was before and thats better than where I was.”

Keep on truckin’ and keep on dreamin’.

I want to keep this simple.

The state of the internet isn’t great.

We have a handful of companies controlling a handful of websites. Every company is building their modern day imagining of AOL. Walled gardens powered by greed, algorithms, and misery. Reflecting much of modern America.

We are allowing machines to fill our context with hallucinated slop. Removing thought and dreams from the human condition.

All this to say, if you are going to be online, own your platform as much as you can.

Share in the commons, but build at home and share in your own gallery.

I started doing the astrological signs in Libra and it became an astrological timed project. That makes it easy to get it done because, to me, the project has a deadline of the first day of the signs season.

Automatic drawing and pastels produces some of the more fun results.