i am (slowly, because I am basically on dial-up) building an offline library of TED Talks, a sort of buffet of thought, experience and inspiration. Just for my own pleasure and edification for right now, no specific purpose except that sometimes -  often, over the past year or so - I’ve felt emptied of something and in need of a fill-up. I have also been reading a lot - I have three or four ebook readers on my Blackberry and with hundreds of thousands of free ebooks out there, I am never without 50 or so stories to choose from at any point in time. Some of the plots, and thoughts, are outdated, old and offensive, but some of the writing is just beautiful and it’s that beauty that I have wanted to absorb.

I’ve even been listening to music, though mostly as a defense against the noise of the television and children and everything else. When I want to Escape From it All I stick my headphones in my ears and in flows Bach or Mozart, or whatever the classical music provider chooses for me, and it soothes and, again, supplies some needed something.

Anyway, as I’ve replenished and refreshed my thoughts have turned more and more to Human Beams, and what to do with it. I have had a few ideas, but no real desire to pursue them, no fire in the belly for them (beyond the planning, which I love) so they lie fallow. Still, the ideas keep coming and one of them will be The One, and then we’ll be going again. Until then I am not going to worry about where the site is going, if anywhere, and will just allow it to be and to become what it will. Some of the coding is still a bit off, by the way, particularly as I have been messing with it, so be warned.

This TED talk below is by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, on the danger of a single story.