I should be asleep but I'm not. I have to get up at four so I can fly back to Oregon again. I am beginning to wonder why I selected a 6:30 flight. Oh, I have a meeting at nine and if I hurry and rush, I can be in that other office just in time! Is it like rilly important that I be there? No, it isn't. Yeesh.
Watched the ninth inning of a Yankees / Red Sox game tonight with my son. We've been too busy to watch baseball but that one reminded us why baseball will never die. Ninth inning, two outs, bases loaded, winning run on second, Big Papi to bat ... We don't even follow those teams. But if asked, I much prefer the Red Sox over the Yankees. Papi popped out. Boo.
I love that they have a player named Coco Crisp. Someone was thinking endorsements when they named that kid.
Speaking of air travel, few people annoy me more than people who get annoyed with babies.
More biz travel next week and the week after. I don't see my kids much anymore. They're both awesome young men and busy as can be so it's okay, I suppose, but waah.
Writing is about telling stories, and telling stories is about extracting meaning from your life. I could do that here every day and would love to. But it takes time I don't make, mostly for reasons best left unexplained. Suffice to say I'm not whining about random chance. Still, what little I can, etc.
There must be something I need to say so I can go to sleep, and I haven't found it yet. I expect by now that I will not. I will double-check my packing, then, and go to bed and lie very very still and drift into mysterious lands never written of.
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People who get mad about babies on a plane?
Here's what a stew -um--excuse me, a flight attendant once said about babies:
Never once has a baby lit up a cigar in the rest room, got drunk and tried to grab my ass, or told long, boring stories in a loud voice.
few people annoy me more than people who get annoyed with babies
Is it okay if they're annoyed with their own babies?
telling stories is about extracting meaning from your life
Telling stories, for me, is the opposite of being about my life.
I get annoyed with babies. ~shrug~ Anything that's noisy and/or smelly annoys me -- babies, smokers, perfumed peeps, peeps who don't take baths, loud peeps, rude peeps, even peeps with honking laffs . . .
But as I rarely express the annoyance in person, maybe I wouldn't annoy you. Whatevs. Actually we're just supposed to say "evs" now if we want to sound, er, hip.
I think you hit upon it, Don. Blog posts are like in the TV show, Quantum Leap. You have to keep writing until Ziggy reveals a 98.743% of somehing, anything, with any meaning whatsoever, and you go for it, and [swoooooshhhh]...oh boy....
Roy
I think I saw that movie. Babies On A Plane.
"We have to put up a BARRIER between US...and the BABIES!"
goosebump city.
Roy
Speaking of air travel, few people annoy me more than people who get annoyed with babies.
This seems to be the most popular part of your post for eliciting responses!
I agree that some air travelers are just snots who don't understand, who don't want to understand, that parents have a right to travel too, yes, and to take their babies on planes. When I do get annoyed is when parents don't keep their toddlers in check. I know it's hard on little kids to take long flights, but I really don't want to listen to screaming tantrums because they have to sit in the seat with a seatbelt on, nor do I want them climbing all over the seat in front of me facing backwards, jumping up and down, yelling "Boo!" when I'm trying to read.
But then, I'm grouchy that way. :-)
I've been lurking silent around your site, but today I find I have something to say about telling stories.
Sometimes, I have found, when I've coached severely blocked clients (I am not suggesting that you're blocked -- I'm merely setting up the way in which the information came to me), that people's stories suddenly inspire their lives, rather than the other way around. I have a number of clients who thought that they were too boring, or too unaware, or too . . . I don't know. Too unevolved to write, because they didn't know how to make it "meaningful" or "profound." It was interesting to me to see that if I encouraged them to tell whatever crazy story they wanted to tell -- even if it was terribly-written, and utterly devoid of finesse or artistic merit per se -- the story lit their lives up in some way, or provided a perspective they hadn't thought about before.
One guy started his own business after writing a really appallingly bad murder mystery, in which he described the art house/coffee shop that he then went on to make a reality. The ways of the soul are mysterious indeed.
From bad story to dream coffee shop. that is very cool.
Yes. I am seeing that I need to learn to keep the lines of inspiration open in ALL directions -- from life to imagination, from imagination into life. (There are a number of other directions that don't lend themselves to description right now.)
I'm not above getting annoyed by rambunctious chillun a'times; but folks who ALWAYS are don't get no sympathy.
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