Ah, the biggest challenge of blogging: keeping at it! Some time has gone by, events have piled up, and now the question is whether to let them slide away or try to capture them here.
So this doesn’t become a beaver-dam, I’ll do a quick recap of some highlights:
I went to Toronto for Strategic Coach’s end-of-fiscal-year team meeting, and that was pretty fun. The company did well, we got bonuses (I generously gave half of mine to Revenue Canada), and we did some fun team activities, including an afternoon running around the Royal Ontario Museum in teams collecting clues to solve a conundrum.
I managed to see some friends, but missed others. I do hate that dynamic — the King Solomon time management decisions an inevitable omissions.
One fun highlight, though, was spending an afternoon playing games at Snakes and Lattes with my friend Margaux and my nephew Andrew.
They indulged me and played a game of my storytelling role-playing game. Here are the characters they made up, which I doodled for them:
I also caught up with my old pal Beale, who parked that bike across the street from the cafe where we met, so I kept seeing it every time I looked out the window.
I’m happy to hear it’s serving him well, though.
So that was that, and I flew away…
It’s nice to be back here, spending time with the family and feathering the nest with Craig.
I’m deep into another book with work and loving it, but feeling guilty because Craig’s in a miserable limbo as he waits to hear about his work prospects.
Comics Club continues to be a real treat during my week. Last week we did an “Exquisite Corpse“-type exercise; I drew something completely random and crazy , and it was fun! It made me realize that I never draw just for fun anymore: everything has to turn out, because it begins its life with a purpose already in mind.
I so want to create work of my own to share with the world, but concerning myself with a purpose up-front kind of twists the whole exercise out of shape. As Oscar Wilde said, “Art is useless.“
So that’s something I’m thinking about. Meanwhile, though, I’ve got work to go and do!