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+# On the red couch
+Couchdesign is a collaborative effort by my partner Jonas Smedegaard and myself.
+We constantly strive to participate as much as possible in each others' projects,
+however not always succesfully. We are very different in nature, and follow different
+living patterns and rhythms in our daily lives.
+Yet we are both passionately caring about the projects that we evolve our lives around.
+We are easy going, yet serious.
+
+Right now we are building a basic website for us. This gives us an opportunity to look
+into our values, such as sustainability, consciously living, humanism, creativity, authenticity etc.
+
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+# Thoughts on engagement and excitement
+
+I'm contacting my engagement and excitement.
+The feelings are there - from experience - as resources for me to draw upon.
+So, I'm focusing on feeling them.
+
+Grounding, movement, clarity, focus, strength, drive,
+knowledge and joy might be the opposites of what I am feeling.
+Therefore I focus on them.
+
+Joy.
+
+I enjoy most parts of my work. I like it, when I know what to do
+and am actually doing it.
+
+I feel intense joy when I get a new insight, get to an agreement with
+others in a team, or finish a part of a project.
+
+I really enjoy movement. When a piece of work is moving along.
+When I'm getting somewhere.
+
+Not just flow, chunky movement is okay, too.
+Slow movement is also movement.
+Movement is a source of joy for me.
+
+I'm taking action on "securing" movement.
+I can't control the actual pace, but I can put in the time and the attention.
+I can plan. Create routines.
+
+Grounding and strength is remembering who I am and why I do what I do.
+Remembering my visions, goals, tools, values.
+Checking in.
+Basically that's what I do when I write.
+
+Clarity.
+
+Clarity is a stage I move into and slide out of,
+not a constant state of mind.
+
+By consciously and actively striving for clarity, I get it.
+Sooner or later I get it. And then I lose it again.
+
+It's rhythmic.
+
+Engagement.
+
+I'm easy to engage in a cause or a project, a job.
+I easily connect the further development of my resources
+with other peoples' ideas.
+Professionally, voluntarily and personally.
+I make their case mine.
+
+It's habitually harder for me to pursue my own ideas.
+
+Clarity helps me figure out how to move on.
+Consciously formed habits, too.
+
+Leading a life of steady creativity.
+Instead of jumping from project to project,
+race to race to their individual finishing lines,
+it's a flow of interconnected activities,
+naturally producing output when matured.
+That is the state of mind I seek.
+That is the life I strive to design for myself.
+
+Relevance is motivation. Excitement. Energy. Drive.
+And essential to interaction with others.
+
+However I cannot connect with whatever and anybody.
+All the projects I work for, I associate with myself.
+I make them mine.
+
+Meeting others challenges me to define myself and my purpose.
+To sharpen what I do and why.
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+# A lot of projects
+
+But are they too many?
+
+I tend to engage myself in too much.
+That's good.
+Makes my life whole.
+
+But no, this is not going to be the perspective of this blog.
+The self criticism. The doubt.
+
+Lately, I've engaged myself in a local forest gardening project.
+Attracted by the energy streamed from a wonderful woman.
+It's her project, but I've already made it mine.
+Thinking thoughts and communicating what I think.
+Wondering how I can contribute.
+Starting a blog. Planning community involving activities.
+Figuring out how this can be a part of my ongoing life.
+
+My reason is that it makes sense to the world and to me personally.
+
+I'm making art out of some local myths and stories.
+It makes sense to me on a personal level, on a community level,
+and from a historical, cultural level.
+And a little bit on a commercial level.
+But the commercial aspect would be so much easier for me to engage in,
+if I was doing that as part of a group on this, somehow.
+Well, I used to be, but not anymore.
+
+I'm involved in arranging a competition among South African high school students
+about creating the best visualization of open data.
+This is not something I know the slightest thing about.
+But it makes sense to me to engage the young in their own communities.
+This can make somebody open their eyes to the power - the possible role - of the individual.
+Locally and globally.
+
+I'm planning a trip to India with Jonas,
+studying and hopefully helping out in local desktop projects in their design challenges.
+The impact of the energetic vibration that your software emits
+is an important and very relevant field to me.
+It's challenging because I have many shortcomings involved.
+This is also a way for me to give energy and love back to the free software community.
+I haven't found a way to focus continuously on this.
+Traveling helps me focus and evolve as a person and a designer.
+
+My paying customers include an enthusiastic stroyteller with a bureau for unusual city walks,
+an idealistic and awardwinning chocolate maker,
+a personal coach, a small theater and a one-man-company selling private solar heating.
+All great causes that speak to equally important
+and very different aspects of human life.