Obstacles

I saw Dr D on Friday. She identified some obstacles.

She does not think this blog project will earn any money. My son works in New York. He knows a lot about money; he trades it every day. He doesn’t think this blog project will earn any money. I am the guy who needs to generate some form of income and I can’t see how this project will earn any money. The no money side wins 3-0.
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Imagery

I have just completed editing the prior post. And I find I am discontented with the imagery.

The header image shows some Ottawa construction scaffolding. It is a perfect introduction to the post: there are multiple elements, the sense is slightly claustrophobic, it is not entirely clear what is going on in the image, the subject appears mirrored or distorted. All of these things reflect aspects of my experience, lived aspects of an injury the Doctors only encounter in textbook descriptions.
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Scaffolding

I am building a scaffold, a framework with which I may interact. As I engage in this effort I encounter various constraints. Some of these constraints are scaffolding, aspects of the structure of the blog: developing a business strategy, defining a content strategy, identifying a nascent market, performing a calculation of the resources required versus the potential revenue (have not yet begun to address the last two items and have only just touched on items two and three). And some of these constraints are internal to me and concern the discovery of my personal limits or the limits imposed upon me by the dynamics of the injury.
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