Status: worked unaltered, writing altered (weed)

Today I worked for a good amount of time, with good concentration, and at a good pace. In short, I was flowing with work. I am glad because it had been some weeks since I last remember being in this state. The kind of work I’ve been tackling in the last few weeks is outside my area of expertise, and this causes the flowing machinery to stutter, because of multiple reasons: you might need to consult the documentation, you may hit a technical roadblock and not know how to surpass it, you are more prone to be distracted when things are not going right, etc.

So, for blank.page courses René and I agreed to go with a lighter approach to code. I even opened a Squarespace account with the intention of seeing if we could customize it to our needs, but I was utterly bored by the activity of “themeing”, and I knew we would run into many limitations, so I decided to do the front end myself.

I was meeting the task with some tedium, as I had these feelings that front-end layout was below my skills, but I noticed the ego thinking. There are many areas of my craft which I do not know, and today it gave me particular joy to expand my capabilities as a creative developer, so I flew through the tasks and finally found out that no, I am not retarded, I just want to eat more than I can digest, and that I must be wise enough to move work in that direction, if I find things too hard, how do I make them easier?

Here is perhaps a new task for the [Virtegraph October]. I feel like it could be more descriptive than prescriptive, because describing comes for free. Let us keep the number of prescriptive tasks to five, they must be memorized, and each finger of one hand will be assigned to the prescriptive task.

Sun showers: I’m smoking cigarretes and weed. A temporary cycle of vice. I go out and take the sun in as I smoke with my shirt off. It’s wonderful, but I’m sick of smoking. I have exactly one cigarette left, after this I will register how many cigarrettes I smoke per day. I may go off and buy a pack of cigarrettes and smoke it over two days, who knows, but I want to register it.

So, the task of sun showers is prescriptive, and is chosen as keystone of the day. I have discovered this is the best way to wake up for the day, at 9am the sun is hitting the rooftop and resonable temperatures to bathe in the sun. The difference in my mood is starking, and the amount of energy I have is increasing. I would be broothing in my bedroom if I had not absorbed energy from the sun.

This forms the keystone in virtuegraph practice, and this is why it heads the virtuegraph. You do not begin your spiritual day if you do not start is with a “trigger”. You do not have to perform it every day, it just means: on this day I will perform the following things:

Sun Shower
Look in the eyes
Meditation
Material Work
Body Work

If I prove to be consistent with these five, I’ll add “observers”.