The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. — Vladimir Nabokov

When I wander down the streets I look into the faces of the people. In my mind’s eye I can morph some of the people – particularly the men – back into how they would’ve looked at school. These great pillars of our community still have gawky school boy or girl written all over them – it’s not even skin deep. In the faces of little kids I can age them, again in my mind’s eye, and I can see how they’ll look in 30-40 years time, all things being equal.

People are thinking, meditating, praying, concentrating as they traverse the day. I can imagine their ideas and thoughts, their prayers rising up into the ether – like bubbles. ‘Please don’t be a parking ticket, I’ll just grab a coffee, she looks hot, damn tourist with his camera, hmmm, what shall I have for dinner, does my bum look fat in this, he’s a dick, I hate secret Santa, I could go a beer right now, I don’t want to go back to work, and then I told him what I really thought, you must be joking, we’ve got get out of this place, that was close, I’m not paying that…’

And so the days go by, and every day they’re back again, I don’t really think there’s many people counting the prime numbers to 1,000. Another flurry of ideas, thoughts, prayers, dreams waft their way to the heavens. I’m working on making my thinking more productive, more responsive, flexible, and creative. Part of the exercise behind Fresh New Day is to look for new images, and in the new sights, new words and hopefully new ways of thinking. I’m not so sure this is really possible – what I think might be happening is when a couple of ideas get close it is possible to see the ‘old’ things then in a ‘new’ way. Morph them in my mind’s eye. See them younger, or older – the past, present, and future – all at the same time.

Manifesto
41. Every day use your mind. It is the greatest technology ever created.
46. Every day you can change your thoughts.
48. Every day there are things you can’t change. You can change the way you think about them and deal with them