BOGGLES THE MIND...: IT'S TERRIBLE... and I'M CRANKY!

Friday, April 27, 2007

IT'S TERRIBLE... and I'M CRANKY!

Okay, so it's not all that terrible. And I am not really all that cranky... but there are those days when nothing I do seems to come out quite the way I had envisioned it when I started...

The forgetfulness is a source of unrivaled embarrassment and that is terrible. I don't like being embarrassed, never have...

For years, I have been teasing and picking on my friend Barb who is notoriously late for anything and everything. Her typical arrival time is about 15 minutes late but she has been known to make me wait more than an hour. Now we have been friends for a long time and I am used to it. I am relatively easy going and never ever go anywhere without a good book so waiting is moot. Frankly, I usually relish the reading time.

But something unacceptable has begun to happen. I have begun to be late. Now this does not sit well with me. I am notoriously on time. It's who I am and how my friends count on me to be.

Lately, for some unknown reason, I have begun to have trouble organizing my time.

And by the way, where do all the words go? Since this whole menopause business started, I have lost my abliity to speak a full sentence without forgetting a key word. It's like my vocabulary chip is, uh... chipped.

I think I will section this blog into uh... sections (??? See what I mean?):

WONDERFUL DAY
GOOD DAY
BAD DAY
REALLY SHITTY Wondering-why-was-I-born DAY
TOTALLY ZONED DAY

Today is a good day and I would like to address some of the wonderful things about entering a certain age...

Like...

It's wonderful that I no longer feel I have something to prove.

It's wonderful that I no longer worry about how to please all of the people all of the time.

It's wonderful that I can write to my heart's content... or not.

It's wonderful that my clothes all fit.

It's wonderful that I have the most wonderful husband in the world.

It's wonderful that I am getting to see my children grow up and am experiencing great pride pride at having been a part of who they are. I like them. They are nice people. Good hearts - all different, all the same. I see their father in them... and me, yes... sometimes I see a bit of me.

*The cancer is making itself known today, but it's not bad. I can certainly handle it. The chemo - ugh. That's a different story. More on that another day. Not today. Today is good!

Except for the facial hair. THAT'S DEFINITELY GOTTA GO!

Wax on, Wax off!
CM

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MAY I QUOTE YOU:

"I'm relatively convinced that in a past life I was Walter Mitty." --Carol St. Ann

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it's a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public." --Winston Churchill, British orator, author, and prime minister during World War II. 1874-1965

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." -- Tom Clancy.

"I don't want to be studied in English classes. I want to be read." -- Tim O'Brien.

"The fact is that writing can be done only during the time when one ought to be doing something else." Isabel Paterson

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." -- Attributed to Anais Nin, French-born American writer, 1903-1977.

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." --Stephen Covey

"I am a storyteller. The type that went from place to place, gathered people in the square and transported them, inspired them, woke them up, shook their insides around so that they could resettle in a new pattern, a new way of being. It is a tradition that believes that the story speaks to the soul, not the ego... to the heart, not the head. In today’s world, we yearn so to ’understand’, to conquer with our mind, but it is not in the mind that a mythic story dwells." —Donna Jacobs Sife

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." —Maya Angelou

"A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation….Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger. —Ben Okri

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."– Marcel Proust

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." -- John Ruskin

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."– Milan Kundera

"Map out your future, but do it in pencil." -- (Jersey-Boy) Jon Bon Jovi

"I like writing in the first person. You can put a lot of yourself into the story." --Sophie, (age 9)

"My stories live robustly in my head. I can hear the noises, smell the smells, and imagine the landscapes. If only I had the courage to make them hit the page as powerfully as they affect my psyche, I'll have to work on that!" - Nate WDC

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." --Peter Drucker

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." --Frank Lloyd Wright

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand." –- Alexander Graham Bell

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia." --unknown

"Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead." --Gene Fowler

"First get your facts, then distort them at your leisure" --Mark Twain

Friday, April 27, 2007

IT'S TERRIBLE... and I'M CRANKY!

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