I am tired of the spoken word. People talk too much. And I am tired of the written word. There are too many of them.
When I write something myself, it takes too much effort because I want it to mean something, to really say something, and to be written correctly.
Time grows shorter here on this Earth as I grow older. I have no time to waste on unnecessary words that don't capture reality anyway.
So I have decided that henceforth I will use pictures. I am going to buy myself a good camera and learn to use it. There will be fewer filters, and hence distortions of reality, with a camera capturing a scene than with my human brain capturing a scene in words.
I see things all the time that I want to take a picture of. I don't want to assign words to it. I just want to capture it in time. So from now on, I am going to take a picture of everything that interests me...ants, rocks, flowers, people with weird faces, people with old faces, babies, dogs, butts of all sizes, fat people, ugly people, pretty people, clouds, worms. And I will write a brief descriptive caption, like "Butt of fat person," for each of my pictures.
Maybe I am getting lazy in my old age. Or maybe it's really just that I am tired of words.
I love my dogs. They don't talk. They don't expect me to talk. And if I do talk, they don't care what I say, as long as I with them when I say it.
I don't know what this will do for my profession as a writer...not much I imagine. But then again, conciseness is valued in writing. I will be very very concise henceforth.
But look at me. Here I go using words again.
Step 1. Go buy a camera.
In the meantime, here is my first installment -- a picture I took of one my dogs with a crummy camera.
Happy dog
From now on. Pictures. Few words.
