I didn’t realize my individual posts were still accessible. If everything works as planned I will be back in September with a new website and new pics.

Thanks for the hello!

I agree that Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are great inspirational reading, and many people who otherwise disagree with many of Ayn Rand’s ideas enjoyed those novels. Their protagonists are simply “overhuman”.

I wonder though if objectivism, just like the communism Rand denounced, is something that looks good on paper but is terribly flawed in practice.

It would be a joy, I think to simply have a drink together and share her philosophy with you. You show your time and the”projects” you will accept (like Roark) are like any other – they are yours to sell or not. Amazing.

Dave

That interview portion you posted on my blog couldn’t have come at a better moment. Thank you!

” Yesterday I did absolutely nothing. I browsed some websites with no educational value.I spent a few hours on a painting and I finished the day by watching a movie. My “timewasting” day was a welcome relief that I cannot afford vey often, even though it did not cost me anything.”

As I read your journal today I was reminded of the dilemma I went through some years ago to find my own balance and place in the world.
By coincidence I was listening for the first time to a Joseph Campbell interview only last week and I’ll transcribe a portion of it below. Hopefully it will resonate with you and you’ll find value in it.

Interviewer: What does it mean to have a sacred place?
JC:This a term I like to use now as an absolute necessity for anybody today.You must have a room,or a certain hour or so a day,where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning,you don’t know who your friends are,you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is a place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a secret place and use it, something eventually will happen.
Our life has become so economic and practical in it’s orientation that,as you get older, the claims of the moment upon us are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it. Get a phonograph and put on the music you really love,even if it’s corny music that no-one else respects. Or get the book you like to read. In your sacred place you get the “thou” feeling of life.
Be Well