A New Wind

I have stumbled upon a sense of intellectual curiosity and stimulation that I have not felt since I first arrived in Cambodia. I spent a good part of the day scouring the internet for stimulating reads – fiction, news articles, editorials, book reviews, and journal articles, and I am working my way through those with a passion I haven’t felt in a long time. It feels really good.

I can’t pinpoint what started this. Perhaps it was a discovery of Google’s “Reader,” which allows you to “subscribe” to sites that offer the feature, and with that subscription you receive headlines every time the site updates. But maybe it was something else. Maybe it was the story I wrote last weekend, with which I am fairly displeased. Perhaps it was talking with a writer I admire and gaining some inspiration and encouragement. It could be simply that I got bored.

I’m looking to improve my writing, and what better way than by reading (and consequently, writing) more. New ideas to write about and new ways to write about them. I’m not promising any Pulitzer writing anytime soon, but the path of writing suddenly looks much clearer. Who knows, it might even mean more frequent blog updates…