today

i've been considering going back to school for my masters degree. i
don't want to write a bunch of useless papers though, say for a
masters in education. i'm convinced the people who write the
curriculum for these classes have never spent any time in a classroom
full of students.

i would love to take art classes, to push me beyond the reaches to
which i push myself. i fear i don't have the time to take the classes
though. art classes are generally three hours in class and then two
to three hours of outside work. i don't mind the outside work. i
just don't have three hours to devote to being in class.

another option i'm really infatuated with is a masters in creative
writing. that feels right up my alley. again, i want to be pushed
further than i am able to push myself simply because i lack the
imagination to create different types of problems to solve.

during my research i ran across a form of korean poetry called the
Sijo. Sijo is three lines of 14-16 syllables each, with special
attention to lyrical quality in the rhythm, and the last line usually
has some sort of twist. for example, here is one i created:

the flickering of light and shadow enswathes me, dances
mystery folds my mind in two and breezes brush away the sand
night is ending, and love, i find, is nothing more than a heart.

anyway, this has been on my mind. we'll see how it goes.

i woke up with the feeling that something amazing was going to happen
today. let me know if it happens to you. i'll do the same.

ghost