As I’m nearing the 100-day mark, I figured it was time to get organized.<\/p>\n
I came up with\u00a0seven categories of posts on this site, but each one is really the baseline (or maybe bass line)\u00a0of\u00a0a book.<\/p>\n
So I’m calling them Books. The\u00a0left-hand column is where you can find this\u00a0bookshelf on any page of the site now.<\/p>\n
Sculpture<\/a><\/strong>: Aka “The Weight of My Days,” these are the\u00a0posts about pennies, coins, money, the sculpture I’m making from 16,072\u00a0pennies<\/a>, and this project’s structure.<\/p>\n Places<\/a><\/strong>: Short for “Difficult Places,” a book that I worked on for more than\u00a0two years but didn’t finish, which was\u00a0an exploration of Africa and the Middle East as a solo backpacker in 1996-97. Includes posts about all kinds of places, the people I met and the culture as I experienced it.<\/p>\n Improvisation<\/strong><\/a>: The soul of a book that I have been toying with\u00a0for more than 15\u00a0years now, “The Adventure Girl Cookbook.” It starts from how to make up\u00a0meals on the fly, based on things I learned while traveling, and it meanders through\u00a0improvisation and\u00a0creativity in art, food, work, travel and life.<\/p>\n Reflections<\/a><\/strong>: An autobiography, a place to write my memoirs along with commentary on current events, my moods, and other random thoughts.<\/p>\n Inheritance<\/strong><\/a>: My ancestry quest, a little historical fiction from my imagination, my upbringing, and all the things I inherited from my parents and their parents.\u00a0\u00a0Scraps for the book “1919” that I’ve been accumulating material on for 20+ years.<\/p>\n Time<\/a><\/strong>: I once made a single-copy\u00a0art book called “Original Pulse.” Memory, the passage of time, infinity, and concepts about the perception of time – it’s a major theme of my abstract art, Original Pulse, and this project.<\/p>\n Spiders<\/a><\/strong>: A\u00a0naturalist’s journal, and my\u00a0journey from spider-hater to spider-admirer. It’s not only about\u00a0arachnids, but uses spiders as an analogy for our ambivalent and ignorant relationship with the natural world.<\/p>\n Right now, Time and Places have the least posts and Reflections has the most. But that’ll change. I have no lack of material.<\/p>\n I’m not\u00a0sure if I’ll assign each category a day of the week, since there are\u00a0seven. Two considerations: It could force creativity (size of the canvas), or it could spoil the spontaneity of responding to each day as it comes.<\/p>\n Have fun exploring. It’s 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I’m nearing the 100-day mark, I figured it was time to get organized. I came up with\u00a0seven categories of posts on this site, but each one is really the baseline (or maybe bass line)\u00a0of\u00a0a book. So I’m calling them Books. The\u00a0left-hand column is where you can find this\u00a0bookshelf on any page of the site … read more Day 94: Seven days, seven books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,334,332,333,37,259],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pennies","tag-67","tag-analogy","tag-categories","tag-metaphor","tag-organization","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}