What an awful exchange with the airline. I hate being the person who’s aggressive, dismissive and mean to the customer service workers , but sometimes it’s necessary. They either hang up or pass you off to the next highest ranking person in line until you reach the top of the hierarchy, which is what I …
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Starting My YIR
The last two trips to the doctor’s office, my blood pressure maintains a healthy level. It’s the first time in years that it hasn’t been elevated. As I read over my journals and morning pages from 2023, which is part of my Year In Review Protocol, one theme that is arriving is a reawakening of …
Update
Printing off the first-draft of a novel just feels different. It’s a beginning and a crash ending. All the work only produced a potential story that may not be any good. I’ll read it, then react to it. I’ll read it again, then organize it. I’ll read it again, then make it beautiful.
Quickie
Child: If we had merch for our family, what would it be? What’s our slogan ? Mother: <Silence>
Life’s Music
The job of sobriety is to conduct the orchestra, but something else always writes the music. It’s not something as simple as inebriation , or some approximate opposite of sobriety, because we’re not simple. The parts of us that write the music are sometimes messy and complicated . Like divorces that bring people into dark …
An Old Vase
Too many glued parts and pieces challenge its integrity.
My Neighborhood
A fine place with empty front porches, security alarms, and people on cell phones, posing into eternity or a glass of wine.
Backwards Wisdom
Old enough to decline invitations, young enough to know better.
To be that guy or not.
5-10 minutes is the length of time it takes to fill a car up with gas. But there’s always a person who goes inside to use the restroom, complete their weekly shopping, and to pay for the gasoline. Sometimes it takes 10-20 minutes. Other times it takes longer. Regardless, I somehow park behind this person …
A Tree Burning with Cardinals
Marie’s home is decorated with birds. Some of the feeders in her front yard are bouquets of yellow warblers and goldfinches. She fills these feeders with Nyjer seed, white millet, and safflower, attracting and bundling the yellow birds into a defined area for their one color and one song. One of the wood feeders was …