New Morning writes snipped: Its sort of parallel the motivations of posters. One poster threaten not to read my post if I did not change some style element. (Are there any other benefits?). I tried to explain, that I had little interest in who or how many read my posts. That is not the fruit of writing them. The fruit is in .figuring out some idea. To let a flash, a sankalpa, a seed idea, develop. Thats it. If someone then also reads the post, and we engage in a nice conversation, thats a good thing too. An added benefit. But not the goal. I am happy with my process of posting as a way to work out ideas. If no one reads it, I am still fulfilled.
TomT: >From my experience, desires now manifest as full blown projects. From the beginning or seed of the the thought about what might be fun to do is the feeling of having completed the project in the inception of the idea to go have some fun doing this project. The project may take months of attention but there never seems to be any frustration about how this project is proceeding or when it will reach some finish point. For instance Cindy and I realized that we had a big boat that we could no longer afford to run every weekend on the Mississippi and our dinghy at 11 feet was too small for the heavy cruiser traffic of folks who have the money to run them. We use our houseboat as a cottage and needed to find a 16 to 18 foot runabout that we could have fun on the river and still afford the gas. I looked, as the retired senior, with nothing better to do with my time. There were many boats that came up but none ever seemed to be just the right thing. Cindy of course was telling her mom about our progress through out the summer in their weekly phone chats. Suddenly in the fall we received a note from Cindy's mom that she was going to lend us the old 16 foot family runabout that had been sitting in the garage unused and unlicensed for the past 6 years. The price was right and it was another whole project bringing this old fiberglass boat back to life but this project has a sense of fullness to it that has been fun. The work we are doing seems very satisfying and there is more fun and more work to do. Who would have thought that when this project (desire) started it would have ended up this way. You just do the next step and see where it takes you. After Cindy's mom saw the work I had done and how the boat began to look like it did back in 1963 she gave Cindy the title as a recognition that we cared and were taking good care of this old boat that had brought Cindy's family a great deal of fun and joy over a long number of years. The journey has been and continues to just be fun. The satisfaction is in the process. Tom
