Crochet, programming and spirituality
Posted by: Fats in: Wika at Hirap > Teyorya baI look at the gray and purple skirt that I have been crocheting and for several moments I feel sorry for it. It is clearly becoming very tedious work, as I have just crocheted glass beads along the hem and hand sewn its lining. A state of patience, stillness and mindlessness.
A student organization for computer science at university has just asked me to give a lecture about creative thinking. It is a marvelous topic. But everything about me seem to be made of a frail string of glass beads.
Only my body, spirit and mind can dictate when I can work normally again - and they all seem to be beyond my will. Am I working again too soon?
The last work I did was horrendous - apart from a defective process, I later realized it was jurying for an art award that pimped its artists to society patrons. I should have looked closer, although I accepted the work only out of friendship. But a horrible thing it is to have an ideology, as surely it was ideology that prompted me to withdraw from the jury duties.
And if not ideology it is a tenuous body, an emaciated heart.
It will be my birthday soon.
I have been reading up again on computer programming, in particular Prolog (Learn Prolog Now), Lisp (The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) and Turbo Pascal (An Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming). The pedagogy are all different, with the approach of Lisp being the most abstract, but I feel they are all basically saying very similar things; like the conduct of a transformative spiritual life, one has to know the how to in the course of exploring the what is (the relationships between the procedural epistemology of “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”and ontology).
I suppose that is why I sometimes look at my unfinished crocheted skirt with some despondency, for not fully knowing what it really is!
