Roy had a good idea: Get back to posting, keep it simple, keep it short. Blogs, he said, are well suited for short stuff. Longer serious things, no.
There are some great longer serious blogs. But they are more like self-published opinion columns and though I once wanted to, I don't aspire to that anymore.
The challenge for me is keeping it short. And suppressing my incessant, long-winded analyses.
So in the spirit of keeping it simple and light and staying on simple and light subjects, I'll only say we went to my father's yesterday to continue his move into assisted living. Obviously there's nothing much to be said about that. There are no thoughts or feelings to associate with such a trivial step.
I lifted a piece of furniture that wasn't so heavy -- used my right arm to stabilize it and my left to lift it -- and both felt and heard ropes snapping in my inner elbow. I put the piece down.
Wrapped in ice hammer-crushed in a leaking zip-loc bag held in place with packing tape, it lay like an injured animal on the console while my wife did the driving home. It hurts -- and in the wrong position REALLY hurts -- and can't lift anything, but I think it will get better. In a couple three months.
Burning Man is only in three weeks, but I really didn't want to roar through one last savage round of weightlifting and outdoor running to prepare for an under-dressed week in the desert. No, no, a little jogging and my usual half-ass attempts at food intake control will be good enough.
That and my cheerful disposition.
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Oh, phooey. Blogs are what you want them to be. Those of us long-winded types will continue to use them to be long-winded. :-)
I'm kind of guilty of the long-winded stuff. I have to work at being succinct. Don't always make it.
Sorry about the elbow. Those three months will fly by! No. Really. Sorry.
Camping with the same Man men and women this year?
Same peeps, except a lot of folks aren't going. This is a down year, no surprise, and even I am already thinking ahead to 2010.
A shame that even Burning Man is suffering from the downturn of the economy. You'd almost think it would work the other way round--I mean I had imagined that anything counter cultural would thrive when the status quo is under stress.
I expect the truly counter-cultural elements will go on unchanged: drumming, spinning, meditating. But my observation of B/M was that it was a solidly middle-class event, in that you generally need to spend some serious change to prepare and get there. For some, it's just another variation on the theme kicked off by Memorial Day and carried on to Halloween. And this year a lot of folks are spending less money, so they don't go.
I also gather from online forums that a lot of people just aren't into it somehow, they're giving it a pass, as though there's some nadir in some global spiritual cycle that the sensitive are reacting to. Last year was an odd year for many -- the City was too big, the dust too deep, the crowds too, just too too, whatever, non-Burnish. People who always go just aren't going. In person and in forums, people are percolating their big comeback in 2010.
This coulda been today's blog entry.
it's too expensive to be considered counter culture. it could be called that at it's inception, though.
hope your arm heals-up some before you go.
My take on Burning Man is that it is somehow tragically mainstream trying to be outrageously fringe. Of course, I'm kind of cynical and a wet blanket, and, true, I don't always have as much fun as the people around me.
How do you define "short?"
Seriously.
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