I have been working a lot, which is good, in many ways, not all. More on that later. When I'm busy generating income, rolling the billable hours along and too busy to write or do much of anything else, it helps to have some sources of inspiration to carry me through these dry days of all work and no play.
Lisa Town has a blog called Inspiration Wall, where she reliably posts choice bits from the wide range of resources she reviews as well as from her own observations and experience, attractively packaged and tastefully written up, there at the fingertips.
Igor Keller writes a photoblog called Hideous Belltown. Belltown is my neighborhood, and I don't find it that hideous, but he walks the same routes and takes a lot of the same photos, from the same point of view, that I do. He's been around a lot longer than me and knows interesting neighborhood histories, where the skeletons are buried, and writes with a slightly jaded and cynical sense of humor. He gives regular reports on the status of his windowboxes so that I know exactly where he lives, and we probably pass on the street quite often.
Marcus Werner, SpaceFlaneur, was the inspiration for this attempt at blogging and I consider him a sort of mentor. He gets too busy to write too, but has a variety of web outlets for quick short posts, like tumblr, where I can find something like this:
...which comes from the University of Darmstadt, has to do with Raumsoziologie which tranlates to the Sociology of Space in English, which reminds me of why I got into this work, why I work so long and hard, just for a chance to apply my real interests in practice and to promote more research in turn, set up a feedback loop between theory and practice, which has not been easy to do.
But thank you to these sources of inspiration and sanity, and others not mentioned here.
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