Run, Write, Meditate, Create, Repeat

By Aryon | Published: March 16, 2010

These four activities along with a healthy dose of the newest music have kept me happy and sane this past week. On Thursday I will return to Philadelphia for a week of web workshops, viking ship parades, more web building, baseball games, job searching, art making and dancing dancing dancing.

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Multi-Tab Mozilla Morning

By Aryon | Published: March 13, 2010

Ah the weekend after having the week off from work. How do these days feel longer even though I got out of bed even later than usual. 40 degrees cold out. Need to motivate for a mile and three quarter run.

Big plans for this site. Burn it down and build up again with a child theme. Trying to find a “sustainable” solution to updating 3 blogs at once. Then I just spent 10 minutes digging through my Backpack and Delicious trying to find an article about the writing with purpose online. Hmmm…I think I need to find that article about online organization first.

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Experience, Strength & Hope

By Aryon | Published: March 8, 2010

I recently celebrated my 6 month anniversary of sobriety on March 1st. I was apprehensive at first about sharing my substance abuse experience. I know that my sobriety is the reason that I have found the time and clarity to begin building this website and share my thoughts. After reading these posts you may want to push me back off the wagon.

I’ve been sitting here too long
And I’ve been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you’ve got to waste

Gold Soundz (Remastered) is on. The sun is shining in my window in upstate NY. I am going for a walk after meditating. It was an amazing day spent digitizing highly detailed VHS versions of my life spent in Belgium during ‘94/’95.

You can never quarantine the past.

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Double Rainbow Reuse

By Aryon | Published: March 4, 2010

I was in the middle of recounting my experiences from yesterday while attempting to resolve my anxiety about the pending day of full on activities when I received a text.

My brother Trevor leaves this morning to serve our country in Afghanistan.

Pride. Fear. Hope. Anger. Sadness. He is committed to this service which helps me accept it. His strength helps me feel less hopeless. This experience also reminds to be grateful for the comfort and security that his service allows. As a practicing Quaker, I am still working on the best way to support him while promoting peace.

In other news: I will be making a double-rainbow-balloon-bag-reuse stairwell installation for the Separation Anxiety show that opens this Friday at Space 1026.

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Getting The Worm

By Aryon | Published: March 3, 2010

Woke up at 5am, started working at 6am. Attempting to follow my super friend Olivias doctor’s hours. Destroying some grammar rules in the process. Freelance discipline. Balancing blog updates with paid work.

Also noticing that as soon as I started blogging and commenting, the spam came quick. No pun intended but “How do people actually make money with porn?” was a recent comment that I will now crush correctly with the Akisment WP Plugin. Absolutely essential.

Early morning assistance has been provided by The Drums and a thick pot of french press.

Wake up its a beautiful morning.

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Running On Empty

By Aryon | Published: March 2, 2010

I woke up today with anxious thoughts. As a freelance designer, my work day feels like it starts once I leave the bed. I feel these need to immediately sit in front of the laptop and put in some work before I can feel calm.

That open laptop often creates many more layers of anxiety. I need to update my blogs, check my tumblr and Twitter, maintain my social networks,  and then there are the 1000+ articles that I HAVE to read in Google Reader.

Thankfully one of the articles I discovered in this media mess was What Daily Meditation Can Do for Your Creativity. I have been working meditation into my daily routine and am currently reading and practicing the techniques from When Things Fall Apart. I started with 5 minutes of meditation on Sunday where I concentrated on my exhale. Today I will practice 10 minutes. After my racing thoughts are quieted I begin my 5K training with a 1.5 mile run.

During these activities I will have to struggle with the fact it is 11am and I still have not clocked in an hour of billable work. This must be why freelancers work so late into the night. Update on these activities in the comments.

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Wondering & Working

By Aryon | Published: March 1, 2010

I registered aryon.com over 10 years ago. My initial excitement with owning my own domain was crushed by having to build a website that best reflected my life and abilities. Static sites were built and neglected, dynamic sites were attempted and abandoned. I always got lost in the planning and design process.

My new approach is to build openly. This will either shame or inspire me to make updates and improvements. The purpose of this website is currently being explored as well. Like any good web designer, I own a lot of domain names. On Update Content you will find my web design work, NERD Island will expose you to my collective art making practice while This is a way, The Daily Commons and Fun You Won sit and wait their turn online.

All my sites are built on Wordpress, my preferred CMS. If you’re interested we can build a site together. I offer affordable rates to artists and musicians as well as more advanced design and development to professional organizations.

MARCH ON.

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