September 25, 2008
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Fiance & Helvetica & Change of Perception.
Lindsey said YES! It was a wonderful night, and I went home exhausted. In fact I was exhausted and had trouble sleeping for 3 days after. I am very excited that we are finally moving into the next stages of our lives.
At work today, we walked down to the America theater to watch the independent film Helvetica. It was a fascinating movie. I enjoy opportunities to learn like this, especially about technology and design.
There seems to be a layer or layers underneath the my understanding of things that is always just out of reach. It’s a measure of complexity and rules that are beyond me, but somehow visible to the “masters” of each trade. Somehow finding these details drives me to learn more. I understand some of the books and stories that I read and studied when I was younger a lot more now through this sort of awareness.
For instance, reading again Musashi‘s Book of Five Rings is much more enlightening. When first approached, a martial art such as his own could be construed as a simple matter of appropriate movements of the body at appropriate times. However, each “master” of these arts seems to own a world of knowledge beneath each movement, even breath. It’s something you could read about, and talk about even, but until I had truly opened my eyes, I wasn’t really understanding.
It is difficult to fully explain and articulate. I will try more later.
This movie was an example of this, though the process is something I’ve really been going through over the last year and a half, as I seem to narrow my life and career goals into something more concrete. I guess this is just a stage one goes through in life.
ashram
