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Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Original vs. Creative

Creative:
I've been working on the final details of two websites I launched over the past couple months. http://www.teddrums.com and http://www.tropicofcoffee.com I have about another week or two to go. http://www.textpattern.com is working very well for teddrums. Plus, I started a mini-booklet addressing formatting issues on the admin side for Ted.

Original:
I had an idea-in-the-rough while biking to work this morning: "Let culture be mantra."

Everymoment, life is infused with culture. A dialogue exists with or without realizing it. It is impossible to be devoid of it--just like life itself, reality, or to the faithful, God. Mantra is the repetitious use of words, ideas, concepts, sounds to consciously change.

So, in seeing culture with openness and freedom, the unique dialogue unfolds. One can listen rather than speak, and learn from what is revealed in any given moment. This stuff is the mantra. It will be repeated as long as life exists.

Now, what if I listened more than spoke, thought, or wasn't aware of life. What is being communicated, from culture to mind, is important and what is being done is important too.