While I was in Minnesota visiting family I found myself laying in bed with my thoughts racing around a mile-a-minute and I’d toss and turn and couldn’t find that quietness to really begin sleeping. I suppose there is a difference between just being motionless and truly being asleep. I was motionless.

I tried to relax. I tried some procedures that one would classically attach to meditation, specifically relaxing and quieting the mind. As I lay there my mind was a ship on a roiling ocean. Every once in a while a stray thought or a memory would break the surface like a marlin or a swordfish on the end of a line. I thought it would be interesting to inventory those thoughts and see if they lead anywhere or meant anything.

This is where Ommwriter comes in. This neat app for my Mac machines creates a quiet, nearly idyllic place to collect ones thoughts and write. It would be a great tool to use, so what I plan to do is to reserve some time and attempt to meditate and as the thoughts come up, I’m going to write them down. It only seems natural that if I’m going to write them down I might as well include them on this new journal. To that end I’ll be creating new tags and categories to suit this little project of mine. Maybe it’s just noise, maybe it’s something more. Only time will tell.