Write out my code, and motto.

this seems to change regularly. Of late I seem to find myself saying “Crap another idea just occured to me.”

Not that I don’t like being creative and all, but seriously when You’ve got as many ideas you want to get to as I do right now, having more heaped on you is … actually it’s kinda cool and comical at the same time.

we still need something about honor and courtesies. And some of those other qualities that I strive to hold myself to be are so ingrained in me that I don’t recognise as something other then the way I am.

Still having trouble reconciling the differant aspects of the mottos I’ve chosen too. It seems that a balance of acceptance and questing and eperiance and thought experiments needs to be found and would be the basis for this. But how that fits into a single motto eludes me.

the code seems nice as is but I’m going to review it in the next week and think somemore on the topic. Refine it a bit.

But the motto, now I’m thinking of another that has meaning for me. What is is

As question, answer, inmutable truth and quest. Yet it also seems to bear itself in opposition to the first idea, perhaps in reconciling this duality in mysefl I shall find one that fits me better.

I was at the local socrates cafe last meeting last night and though the topic was unrelated it lead to realising things about how I think.

I came to realise that one of the most valuble phrases I ever learned is:

What if…?

It can sometimes lead to worry and panic but can lead to doorways and possabilities. So it seems to contain it’s own balance. What if I can’t find a job soon? What if I use the talents I have to teach others, and charge small fees as a tutor? Neither may happen but both get me thinking, and preparing.

It’s creative. What if there were a race of beings that had never seen anything like ropes and nets? would our use of tech involving these things make us seem like spider people to them?

So Tentatively I am using that as a possable motto. But only tentatively. I mean… What if I came up with something better? :)

Here is the beginnning of my code. it needs a bit more and could do with a bit of refinement.

Bonus points if you can figure out the inspiration of this (hints, HE lived before Abercrombie & Fitch was founded).

Live content within small means.
Seek elegance rather then luxery.
Grace over fashion..
Wealth over riches.
Study hard and think quietly
Talk gently and act frankly.
Listen to clouds and mountains, children and sages.
Have an open heart.
Bear it all, cheerfully.
Act bravely, think boldly.
Await occassions, never make haste.
Find wonder and awe, by experiancing the everyday.

I was reading through some of my books and found a quote that seemed to sum up some of the things I feel should be in this. But it also has some things I don’t quite think fit me, or the value or language has changed enough to scew the meaning these days.

That with a look through some of the practices of organisation I respect through history should help me get a rough out line of the code.

The motto of all things is tripping me up most. I’ll have to consult my notes but I’ll get this posted soon and see about refining it over the years to come.

Tre Rhodi had something like this and I realised that while I try to live honorably and conduct myself in a way that I see as carrying on both the manners of an earlier time (much like my grand father) and a means of being that today paralelles the way in which courtly men conducted themselves in both the Renaissance and the arthurian legends that I adored as a child.

It sound hockey but I would like to think that I am a decent person because I hold myself to a code. I’ve just never actually asked myself what the letters of that code are.

as for the motto, every good person should have an inspiring motto.