Plugging In

I collected words from the IT specialists at Educause in Austin this Wednesday. I was there to present with a friend who teaches at the university level. We shared how we've collaborated using wikis during our doctoral process. Once we were done, we attended other sessions. Some people took notes, asked questions, I plucked terms out of their presentations for my creative cache. With some of these words, I constructed poetic images... the ether that feeds my mind's cloud, convinced that I was the one thing that was not like the others at this convention, content to float. Then, I decided to pay attention. I plugged in.
I remembered Richard Feynman's words when someone asked him what it took to become a scientist of his caliber (and, yes, there are aspects of the tech world that seem like quantum mechanics to me): "...I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people. It just happens they got interested in this thing, and they learned all this stuff."
This 'stuff'... I will add to another one of my collections..All the stuff I want to learn. 
I'm becoming a hoarder.

Richard Feynman Ways of Thinking