The commonly accepted cliche is "home is where the heart is." That couldn't be more true. Throughout my life I have been very lucky. But there has been nothing better than knowing I have two homes. A majority of my life has been spent in Miami. I have friends and family there. But when I fell in love and moved eight hundred miles north to Atlanta I was out in the storm. Now, that's not a bad thing for me. I like rain and I like water and the excitement of new possibilities filled me with energy. I spent only two years in Atlanta and in that time i not only found my love, Amber, I also found my second home and my second famiily in the Atlanta Bujinkan.
This weekend has beeen an excellent time. I've learned much and reflected on some good memories. I have also taken time this weekend to live in the moment, absorbing every sound, smell and sight and locking them away in a wrinkle of my brain so I can remember it for tomorrow and all the days after that.
Damn I just don't know what to say other than I have people that love me and I thank God for that feeling. It's the geatest one in the world.
I can't wait to be home but I also can't wait to return here to my other home, my other friends and my other family.
Time and convinience are two reasons why its taken me close to a year to finish reading the Bourne Supremacy. One is I'm always on the move. I've spent much of my life at a desk learning and what I want to do most now is live. I wanted to act and experience because I felt I had none. Of course that wasn't true. I did have experience but because it came to me easier than it did to others I didn't feel jutified with it.
But I digress. Reading is something I haven't really done since college. And writing is another thing thats taken a backseat. In my closet I have a crate of poetry and literery scribbles, mostly bad, but some good. Anywho, lately I'm finding myself just stopping. Whether its to read or write or just breathe. I'm findiing it imporrtant to learn. And yes I've always known you never stop learniing, I agree, but you don't need school or an argument or a new foundation to learn. Learning can be done in ten minutes. Every new connection in your brain is learning. For example, the other day I was watching Pulp Fiction as Uma Therman's character was describing this tv pilot she was in. As she spoke it clicked in my mind that the tv pilot she described was the basic plotline to Kill Bill. Bam - I learned something. And not just another useless fact about Quentin Tarantino. I learned about recursive storytelling. That's what I call it when a story circles itself or references another story with similar elements.
So what's this all have to do with rediscovering the joy of reading? Well I've wanted a Kindle for some time because I've had little room for books or time for libraries in my life lately. Plus, I'm a geek. I need soomething quick and digital. However, I wasn't prepared to invest over $300 in something to read books when I wasn't reading that much anyway. So I do what I usually do when things peak my interest, I research them to death. And what did I find? Ebooks.
No, ebooks are not new and yes I'd heard about them before. But not until recently have I been comfortable with the idea of paying ten dollars for a pdf file. Well, about a week ago I decided to risk it and I haven't looked back. With an ebook, I can read anywhere. I just download the file onto my phone and open Mobi Pocket reader when I want to. I can add bookmarks and notes and read at my leasure. If I have five minutes, I can turn to my phone and read and learn. Ebooks make it easy to read, stop reading and pick up where you left off. And when I learned that lesson, I realized how easy it is to learn. Period. :)
