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I started a new job on Monday as an interactive art director at Clockwork. It was definitely tough to leave Capella, but I’m really excited about the new digs. It’s a great work environment, located in a converted warehouse in northeast Minneapolis, and the team is awesome. Read the rest of this entry »

I decided about a month ago that this would be my last entry on “Notes from Russ.”  Everything that has a beginning has an end, and I feel that right now I want to utilize my energies for other endeavors.  Since I made this choice to stop posting my “notes” on my good friend Rett’s website, I’ve been trying to think of just the perfect thing to say.  Many ideas have floated through my head recently, and it’s been difficult attempting to pinpoint the right ones.  Well, tonight is the time to write something, whether or not it comes out the way I want it to…

I appreciate all of you readers who took the time to read (or at least skim) through these notes from me.  Who knew that a notepad I got from when I was a kid in school would come to be the inspiration for a creative writing venture…or as my brother would say, another one of those trendy blogs.

We are definitely living in interesting times, don’t you think?  It’s very exciting to be a part of these changes that we’re going through.  We’re not in Kansas City anymore, am I right, Toto?  I will bid you adieu with these words:  Life is but a dream, albeit a persistent one.  If you’re reading this now, then odds are you’re stuck in the time loop with the rest of us.  Welcome to the tea party.  I guess the obvious question you might have at this point is: what are you here to do?  I would say that a paradox exists between the notion that we go through life attempting to wake up to this illusion called “reality” and simultaneously the idea that we are passing through time is an illusion itself.  So where does that leave us?  Does that paradox really tell us anything at all?  I mean, why should we attempt to do or change anything if everything isn’t “real” as we might think?  We are stuck in a prison, thinking we’re free, while at the same time not realizing that the prison door was unlocked the whole time.  Ultimately, we act because we are.  You are here, so what will you do?  I suppose the better question might be, not what you will do, but who are you?

Everything that has an end has a beginning…