It's that time of year again, time to remind ourselves of the good things in life. It's too bad that it takes a date on the calendar for our to remind ourselves of these things instead of remembering them everyday. Unfortunately life always seems to get in the way.
~ I am thankful to have the greatest Mom ever. She supports me in everything I do, no matter how crazy my ideas are sometimes.
~ I am thankful that I can finally call my sister my friend after a very long time of not really having any type of relationship at all
~ I am thankful I got Trula (my guitar). I completely suck right now, but I'm having so much fun learning to play.
~ I am thankful I finally have a new dream and a new direction. Whether it works out or I end up falling flat on my face in NYC, at least I will have tried.
~ I am thankful for my new motto "Never Regret." Everything that has happened in my life (good, bad and ugly) has helped shape the person I am now and I actually think I like myself!
~ I am thankful for finding an amazing second job at LeFab. It started out as a job just to earn extra money to save, but turns out I love it there.
~ I am thankful for a new network of great friends in the blogosphere. Blogging has helped me alot the last year, but you all have helped me much more!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
After four weeks of being sick, I am FINALLY feeling like a real person again! For a while I didn't think it would happen, but the third antibiotic (and third trip to the doc I had to pay for!) finally did the trick! While spending two weeks out of work in bed might sound great, I would have gladly been at work all day and feeling good then what I went through the last month.
That being said I'm sure those of you who read my blog regularly have noticed my absence lately. Call it what you will: lack of inspiration, writers block, whatever. I've got it. So I'm going to be taking a little hiatis from the blog for a while. I will still check in and read your blogs, and I will try to still write when I can, but I need something to get mmy focus back.
I've got my guitar now and I'm going to spend some serious time focusing on playing. Hopefully a little more music in my life will help me reclaim my creativity soon.
~ I am exhausted. I've been sick for the last four weeks and it doesn't seem to be getting better. Three days at the dirt track did not help, even though it was a great time.
~ It was pretty wierd being back in Charlotte after two years. I had a great time, but it made me realize that I made the right choice in leaving. That's not the life I want to live anymore and that's not where I should be.
~ My roommate leaves today, will be gone for a month, then home for two days and gone for a year. It's going to be awfully lonely around my place now. I never thought I'd want a roommate, but it's nice having someone else in the house and I'm going to really miss it.
~ I managed to take a total of one picture my entire trip to NC. I guess that shows a good time was had when you forget to take pictures!
~ Only 12 hours at LeFab this week so it will hopefully give me a chance to get over whatever it is that I have.
By ~ Marge Piercy
Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
you have is a tedious
delusion, a hobby like knitting.
Work is what you have done
after the play is produced
and the audience claps.
Before that friends keep asking
when you are planning to go
out and get a job.
Genius is what they know you
had after the third volume
of remarkable poems. Earlier
they accuse you of withdrawing,
ask why you don't have a baby,
call you a bum.
The reason people want M.F.A.'s,
take workshops with fancy names
when all you can really
learn is a few techniques,
typing instructions and some-
body else's mannerisms
Is that every artist lacks
a license to hang on the wall
like your optician, your vet
proving you may be a clumsy sadist
whose fillings fall into the stew
but you're certified a dentist.
The real writer is one
who really writes. Talent
is an invention like phlogiston
after the fact of fire.
Work is its own cure. You have to
like it better than being loved.
I can't believe it's already November. This year has really gone by fast. Seems like all I've been doing lately is working and it's really catching up with me. 65 hours in six days is enough to send anyone over the edge I think.
I'm super exciting to be leaving on Wednesday to head back to Charlotte for a few days. I haven't been back since I left almost two years ago. It will be nice to see old friends and have a chance to just relax a little.
I haven't really had anything exciting to write about lately and I fee like my blog isn't nearly as good as it used to be. Hopefully I'll have something interesting soon. I'm sure I'll have some good stories to share when I get back next week!
This may be the most beautiful song I've ever heard...
so here we are again
sleeping under bridges in the rain
under the new sky again
i hear the rumble of the train
another city to refuse
another bout of those hopeless wandering blues
you know we've still got one more chance to lose
do what's true, true to you
don't let the world tell you what to do
there's no wrong, travel on
do what's true, true to you
another corner and it's gone
but I still got a beat up guitar to play my songs
silence here is tried & true
only falsehoods would a verbal message do
and i've got nothing left to say
one hesitation would be to waste the day
onward, onward to futures
sunny & stray
do what's true, true to you
don't let the world tell you what to do
there's no wrong, travel on
do what's true, true to you
the global money market race
upon earth it brings it's own disgrace
and we stand laughing in it's face
pledging defiance to the cutthroats & the haste
with little more to survive
as we turn our paths to the side
for those that will not walk along
the road we have only pride..
outside....
so do what's true, true to you
don't let the world tell you what to do
there's no wrong, travel on
do what's true, true to you
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