Using What You Have
Layout program - Acrobat - these things paid for but not used, while they should be, time to think of projects. Promotions of the site, versions of publications different.
Feeling of so much content to process, beyond my dreams, and a vision of an encyclopedia of the modern world, which I am writing.
Time to design a logo - to design more than I do, to have PDF files in addition to HTML.
Use the cameras that you have. Do not buy new models, thinking that they will help you. If you do not use what you have, you can not use the new.
In the best place to write, better than all the roads I travelled, where I was trying to be comfortable and warm in faraway countries.
Well beyond anything I could do before, I have the tools to do anything that can be done in publishing, print or electronic.
Every press release I find, I am amazed by the number of companies, by how big the world is, how many people are out there doing things. It makes me feel small, but also amazed that I am able to edit material about these many distant things.
Reading articles about typography makes me nostalgic for things I never did, occupations I never had. As if I were a rare book archivist, as if I had scanned old typefaces and created new fonts. These were hopes of mine but I failed in many ways to achieve the dreams I had. However, now I have time to do anything I want. And I want to work with old lettering. I want to study old books and art forms.
Using a different typeface in my journal than usual does make me feel different about my words.
So much more to learn, so far to go. I have been only a few places compared to the wide world and all it holds. I have been busy with simple things. I have not thought big enough about fame or success.
I do not know where I am going. I like a good font that kerns well. I am rebelling against plain text. It is time to see the art of lettering again. Is almost as if I am drunk on wine, but I am drunk on typography.
I would like to have a kind of TextPad for Mac - macros that match my system in Windows, so that I can make my pages over here.
Downloading BBEdit to see if that can help.