it’s possible to love the critic
Seriously, what would I do without harsh criticism of my work and opinions? I love to have someone beat up on me (generally, verbally) over something I voice or create; I truly take to heart their view and constructively adjust myself for further trials.
I will now celebrate my critics (that being such a harsh word, I’d like to preferentially entitle them “deliberate scrutinizers”).
Adam has helped me with designs and graphics and code far more than any other human alive. And his advice is always impeccable, precise and dead-on. I had been working on the new graphic look (see that new header thing?) and asked him to be brutally honest with me. He was and I could not have thanked him enough. He even offered to help take me from a “good idea” to a fabulously redesigned look. As if I had been thrown into TLC’s What Not To Wear, I came out on the other end feeling fabulous and, in the site’s case, looking my best. Thank You, Adam!
And Rianna, oh, Rianna, she who melts my pride and pokes fuming cattle brands into my side to make sure I never overwhelm myself. We chatted tonight over a meal, bringing up very random topics and analyzing how we felt of them. This is the type of conversation I love! - taking personal experiences and opinions, addressing them, listening to the other, and learning from the other. Conversation is not a battle, not a war, NOT a right and wrong; conversation is a way of meshing new ideas into your existing beliefs and then gaining new direction for the future. Brilliance! Such a good time tonight with her as well. Thank You, Rianna!
This is one of those two-thumbs-up nights. Not literally, my thumbs are currently being enslaved into the correspondence of thought-to-keypad, but an evening that could have been delightfully mediocre was transformed into a social apparatus of excellence.
Excellence, I say!
March 27th, 2005 at 1:29 am
nice