Floods of Light by Great Skies¹

Floods are often an unkind occurrence. Recent events around the world are enough to remind us of this. A flood, even in a proverbial sense, carries negative connotation - by definition, it describes there being too much of something. Something cannot be contained. Often, that something is water, and as we all know, water is one of those forces of nature we think we control, but we really don't. I am willing to say that if it had a mind, it would control us. It cuts rocks and can just as easily kill something that breathes air, and yet it's still necessary to sustain life.

But enough stating obvious observations. Let's get to the analogy.

Water can be an analogue for information. Information can be sharp enough to cut through an argument that is rock solid. Information has the ability to destroy an idea that is gasping for air. Just as well, information can and does sustain life.

It's no surprise that water is also already analogous with digital information. Media from the internet that continually loads onto your computer while you're looking at it is known as 'streaming.' 'Upstream' is the speed at which you send information. 'Downstream' is its respective transverse. A large file that materializes from seemingly nowhere is commonly known as a Torrent. You can browse, but you can also surf the internet.

I mentioned a couple of posts back about how work lately is kind of like an onset-of-rain scene in a movie. In the analogous sense, it's still raining around my parts. It's a lot of being busy, and it's a lot of emails. It's work I like, to be sure, there's just a lot of it.

I know this feeling before. Brimming with good things to do, and marks to be made, but constant challenge does try to drown you, and it will if you don't stop and come up for air every once in a while.

It's a monsoon of bits and bytes, and burning the midnight oil these days looks a lot like an LCD backlight.

My post about rain made this blog my umbrella. But the rain keeps coming, and a little more is needed to survive.

You'll notice I haven't brought up music yet. The same thing happened to me in wondering why getting down to all this business has been bearable. It's because I've been under headphones and didn't realize I had put away 4 hours listening to music while being a workaholic.

Music, may you be my boat during the flood.