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[urbpan]

I'm encountering some resistance in my own ability to be creative. I'm mostly talking about this blog, but also in other parts of my life. I want to have been creative, but I don't want to muster the energy to be creative.

I want to post here, to get the sweet sweet rush of comments. Facebook and Twitter are like m&ms--you do a little, get an instant response--it's not usually a very deep or helpful response, but it's something. When I post here it's a bigger risk: if there's no comments it's heartbreaking, but if there are comments it's usually amazing.

I have pictures I haven't posted yet from my vacation (really) but I'm worried that anyone reading this is sick of my vacation pictures, and it looks like I'm gloating that I get to go to the Caribbean. I need to kind of get over myself and shake off the funk, just do the thing that I do and move on to doing the next thing I do. I guess I forgot that getting your shit together is a daily process and haven't been putting in the daily effort as much as I should have been. I also always feel a little low after begging for money on LiveJournal--it isn't FOR that! Sorry.

I'm going to do an Urban Nature Walk this Sunday on the Riverway, where the Studios Without Walls art show is up for a couple weeks. Anyone reading this is welcome to meet us by the Longwood stop on the D line and enjoy the art and nature there. It should recharge the old batteries.

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[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I might be able to make it Sunday, but I would drive. Is there parking there? What's the address?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I thought there was parking at the T station, but apparently that's not the case. I will be parking by Parkway and Netherlands in Brookline, then walking through the park to the T station. This shows the specific area pretty well: https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=longwood+towers+brookline&fb=1&gl=us&hq=longwood+towers&hnear=0x89e3790041ab9885:0x9475de475cdbd207,Brookline,+MA&cid=0,0,4697498321016263851&ei=zgF_UY2xHIeu4AP6pYCYCQ&ved=0CK4BEPwSMAA

It will be great to meet you if you can make it!

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK, I kinda sorta know where that is. I will try to make it!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Finally put 2 and 2 together and friended you back on fb!

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I was hoping you would. FB doesn't let you send a message with a friend request anymore! Which is silly.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That is silly! I have tons of friends whose names are unknown to me.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I get that feeling a lot too.

I love your trip photos, and I can't even be too jealous, since I got my Caribbean vacation and even missed snow back home.

Maybe I can even make this nature walk, it would be about time.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that--you may have inspired me to post my last vaca pics!
Hope you can make it it will be nice to meet you!

[dinahprincedaly.livejournal.com]

would it help if you thought of your LJ as more like notestoyourself? markers on moments YOU can come back to...

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I guess the key is to give myself permission to do so. :)

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just post-vacation slump?

Anyways, I wanted to thank you for posting advance notice (of more than 24 hours) of one of your Urban Nature Walks. Unfortunately, I can't go this time, but I really want to go on one and advance notice really helps with planning to attend one :-)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I think you're on to something! :) I made myself relax so much into the vacation I may have forgotten how to get to work again!

I'll try to be more timely about posting UNW events! There may be a second one this month, since I love this month so much.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The more light stuff gets shunted over to other platforms, the more LJ feels intimidating. I find it true not so much for posting as for reading. It's so easy and relaxing to just glance at Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr, whereas LJ requires, y'know, paying attention. Of course it's that much more rewarding, too, but back in the day, it was also relaxing and no-commitment... whereas now, that function's been taken over by those other sites.

Don't feel too down! I thought of you when I was in the Million Year Picnic, looking at the shelf of hand-produced zines. Connections. So great to feel *attached* to so many people.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

You're wonderful Francesca, thanks so much!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Aww, not at all. You know who's wonderful: Alexis. I remember her sponsoring me for the Walk for Hunger. (We haven't done that since the kids started being in college, but we used to do it every year.)

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I don't consider your holiday pics to be gloating. I could never afford to go to the Caribbean, but I presume it's easier/cheaper for you to get there. I can get to all the countries of Europe and the nearer parts of Africa more easily than you could. You win some, you lose some!

You shouldn't worry about no comments. People are reading. These days I often get no comments, but then someone will mention something I said a while back on another post, so people are looking and reading, they just mightn't have anything to say.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that! I know the dearth of comments doesn't mean no one's reading--it means that I should comment to other people's posts more!

[theysuredo.livejournal.com]

I don't know you, but found you after reading about your urban species project in the Dig (in 2006, can that be!?). I've read your blog regularly since then, checking in at least once a week, and more typically once a day. It's the only reason I have the LJ account. I enjoy most everything you post, including ups & downs, vacation pix, sleeping dogs, office pictures. So this seems like an opportune moment to say, Jef, you are very much appreciated.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Well thank you so much! I wish it weren't necessary to create an account to comment on LJ, but it is such a spam-magnet these days.

I appreciate you too!

[weofodthignen]

Just to say I like the Caribbean pics as well as the Boston pics :-) I'm never going to get to go to Antigua or have a camera that good, so keep 'em coming so I and others can live vicariously :-)

M

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I completely understand how difficult it can be.

I love your pictures and Cotton's too. I kind of live for the morning dose. Naturesbeauty is another one I rely on for visual medicine.

I know you all do this for free and that it takes time and energy so I try not to expect it to go on forever and always appreciate what you do. I should comment more but usually I am clueless. :(

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I often want to comment on your posts as well, since your art is so beautiful, and your very-relatable expressions of depression are so raw and honest.

[m0053.livejournal.com]

probably not the same kind of creative you're looking for, but:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ