Digital Koan I Just how helpless am I without a digital device?  I can still write, though I might be the only one who can read it.  I can still read, in fact it's considerably easier on my eyes.  Brain shift again.  I can't draw with a mouse for shit, but with some effort I can form shapes reasonably recognizably with a pen and my bare hands.  Language is too easy for me, Mr. Left Brain.  My music has been rational for decades.  Should I want this to change?  The difference between looking, seeing and reading is painfully clear.  I'm pushing the corpus collosum harder than I'm used to.  It feels good.  Painfully good.  I see, I see, I see.  It is so much easier for me to describe than duplicate.  I'm going to have to revisit the argument of whether we think in language very soon here.  I still insist that we do even though I know full well that we do not.  Swallow my conundrums please, I have to too.  There are no simple answers, language testifies to that.  But the simple answers almost always fit the empirical evidence, experience teaches that.  How does language fail to describe experience?  Lack of precision and lack of abstraction, no shades between the grays, not enough and far too many.  Seeing is freeing.  Looking is lazy.  Reading is enslaving.  I function well enslaved.  I thrive within the limits and I love expanding them, enjoy their resistance.  I don't believe that I have neglected my right brain, although I certainly understand anyone who says such.  The towering flaming monolithic vocabulary, the mercilessly savage steel with which I wield it make it an easy assumption to make.  I have disrespected my right brain and I shall continue to do so.  But I do not see how this represents neglect.  Still, I do intend to keep drawing more, much as my clumsiness pains me.  I actually do see, I can stop reading the world and let the lines and curves flow in my eyes and out of my pen, but being a klutz assures that I will make many accidental lines or a bare hintful minimum.  Luckily for me what you don't draw is very much a piece of the image.  Negative space and letting the color of the paper come through are a huge part of the picture.  This is not at all the case with writing.  What you don't write has nothing to do with the final product.  Granted, choice of words matters and intentionally breaking thoughts or leaving pieces out shapes the work, but the actual physical negative space around the letters is worthless, absolutely meaningless, there is nothing there and language is a something.  Alright, alright, written language is a something.  The spoken word does allow for a bit of negative space, when I trail off speaking I expect my audience to complete the thought or at least understand that it cannot be completed.  This is much harder writing, with no tone or timbre I cannot ensure at all what you will think or feel when I trail off.