I was reading Fatbluemans blog the other day. He talked about Stream of Consciousness writing. How he was going to try to write for an hour every day in an attempt to build a natural response to the urge to write, to express himself through the written word. To make it habit. An interesting perspective, I think, a way to get the words on the page without your mind getting in the way. I know that many writers have used this method. Joyce, Burroughs, Vonnegut. All of them trying to bypass the filter that is the ego, to end-run that natural reflex that is to self edit. Society imposes rules that cause us to over think our ideas, to weigh them against our experiences and then to restrict output to things that are structured. Structured by social dictums.. I think that is interesting and frightening at the same time, like a snake inside of your head. Waiting to strike at the words and the thoughts, to envenom them with doubt, and to leave them on the side necrotized and desiccated. Many have tried to use ‘mind-expanding’ drugs to achieve that state and only found that the connection between any thought and the paper was cut. What’s worse they couldn’t remember the ideas once the drugs had done their damage. Damage that left lasting Impressions like a smell that reminds you of something … something that eludes your touch .. something that you know you have seen and seen .. Is that what modern art is about? Removing those illusions of reality? Removing the inhibitions? Inhibitions? Interesting word when you look at it: to inhibit: to stifle: to block. And isn’t that what I am trying to overcome with this exercise. I have always had a problem spelling. An old friend John is a wiz at that. His parents were in the educational system and they stressed the need to be able to spell. And he has always taken a great deal of pride in that ability. I have always struggled with that skill, but I am getting much better. Once was a time where the spellchecker would scream at me with its accusatory red underline and now… now not so much. I guess it just takes practice. If you have read this to this point congratulations. I won’t burden you with more words… today.

BTW the only misspelling I've had to correct was the word frightening..interesting.