Inspiration Week: Giving Up

I realize that I don’t have 7 solid, distinct bits of inspiration for you. There are a few more videos by sigur ros that are amazing. There are a number of other videos and pieces of writing that I find inspiring, but I also realize that they are very specific to my areas of interest and won’t have the same effect on most people. It might be interesting to devote another post or series of posts to tracing the bits of media that have been formative in my life. But that’s for another time.

Now that I’ve proven to myself that I’m capable of blogging regularly, I want to up the quality. I want to adopt the habit of finishing posts, setting them to auto-publish in 24 hours, then editing them the next day. I cringe at all the typos that I have yet to correct in my one-a-days. It was certainly valuable to get my ideas down, but most of those essays would be infinitely better after one solid revision. I might go through and do this, although something tells me that editing blog posts too much is sacrilegious, akin to editing a wikipedia page about oneself. Certainly these posts need to be tagged/categorized.

So no more daily posts for the time being. I have a number of other things that I’d like to meditate upon, but I want to give them their due justice of more than a half-hour writeup.

For now, I leave you with a video (and transcript) of obama’s recent speech in chicago: