This is kind of a love letter to email. It's really my favorite communication medium.

1. Instantaneous love-getting and love-giving
2. I can think about what I want to say, say it well, and keep it for all time for reference
3. For this introvert, I have some of my best, most personable conversations in email.
4. Can be much more beautiful than even print mail - email designers seem to be ahead of the curve and I love getting it. Check out this email, this one, and this one. Beautiful, huh?
5. You can get such fun information by email. It's not like print mail that has to have a purpose and a response card and a call to action. I get a sales email for fonts that is just plain lovely. Never bought any fonts from them (so maybe something's not working on their end) but I get giddy about getting it.
6. Emails are actionable, but also ignorable.
7. Search, search, search. If you have gmail or another email program that keeps all your email stored, try searching for something or someone. It's amazing all the conversations you come up with, memories that come to mind… opens your life wide open!
8. Opting in and opting out. My email is just that: MY email. Lots of control with your own email, unlike Facebook or many social media sites now-a-days. (Although I do understand that google puts ads on my page and practically bombards me with ways to make them money, but hey… I can ignore that pretty well.)
9. Attachments. A beautiful invention and a way to make someone smile (now not the forward a lame chain mail email, but a personal picture of your dog and you on a hike… that's fun!)
10. Drafts. A girl needs a place for starting something and not finishing and being able to store it. And drafts of course are editable and deletable. I mean, pretty schnazzy.

So maybe this means you should send me more email. ;)

I'm not a super musician. I understand musical notes. I can pick out a tune on the piano. But I always have lyrics wrapped up in my head. Thought I'd post a song that I've had rumbling around in my head for while. While, I'm not really talented in music, I have a few family members who are. So may be passing this along to them to work on (maybe by brothers or my husband??).

Also keep in mind, even though I sang some of the solos in my 6th grade music class, I haven't sung much since my younger school years. So my voice is a little rusty here. Kinda embarassing really on the high notes.

Notice. This music is NOT to be used without permission. The two recordings below are copyright by me and all rights are reserved. Although most things posted on this blog I have open under the creative commons license, this music and its lyrics are licensed under the following:  

"Morning's Come" music and lyrics by Megan E. Evans is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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Here are some snapshots into the wide variety of things I created on Day 164.

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I captured this image today while filtering through some weird designs I created a while back. Kinda psychedelic, don't you think?

What is creation? I've been weighing this a lot lately because I seem to have started weighing what is creation and what is not and feeling like I'm not creating anything (anything worthwhile) and therefore not posting anything here. Is anything made creation? But when I put it out there with my name on it and have people looking at it and pondering it, judging it, weighing themselves it's goodness or ugliness—this is good, this is bad.  This is not good enough.

Good enough for what? I ask.

Creation for today: the above ramblings.

Enjoying this new "look" and idea. Where have you found a relationship unexpectedly?