[[A sleepy individual lies in bed with a nightcap, talking to a dog.]]
Sleeper: We've forgotten how to be bored.
Sleeper: If the mind is constantly stimulated - if we feed our phones every shred of spare attention our surroundings do not, at that moment, require -
Sleeper: - it forgets how to stimulate itself.
Sleeper: How to turn up the gain on life to find the signals that hide a bit deeper.
Sleeper: Engaging in periodic non-thought, then, is a useful and necessary exercise for the mind!
Sleeper: Doing nothing, thinking nothing for as long as feels RIGHT.
[[The sleeper, now awake and dressed, discusses the matter with a friend.]]
Sleeper: Yeah so I basically work out for like three hours every morning
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{{alt-text: six sets of twelve reps of staring at the ceiling, trying to find patterns in the popcorn}}
six sets of twelve reps of staring at the ceiling, trying to find patterns in the popcorn
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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