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Every year, I decorate a metal ivy thing (It’s Kel’s.) with lights and ornaments, mostly from Hallmark. My parents started buying ornaments, mostly Star Trek, and I continued the practice.
For several years, the ornaments hung on the Christmas tree, but I have so many that I can’t hang them on the tree. In fact, I only hang a portion a year.
From 1964 through 1967, Gilligan’s Island was produced and broadcast. I saw the show in syndication when I was a kid.
Virtually every one of the 98 episodes involved the castaways attempting to get rescued with Gilligan screwing it up somehow. The question wasn’t if he’d screw it up but how.
Now, the show was a comedy, a farce really. It was mindless entertainment. It was absurd. Taken for that, the storytelling was fine.
However, if you’re writing this story and not doing it as a comedy, what would the characters really do? At a minimum, they’d tie Gilligan to a palm tree until they were rescued. Perhaps one of them would kill Gilligan. Does that sound harsh? How many attempts would the sanest person see fail because of one man’s idiocy until he helped that man meet with an accident?
For Thanksgiving this years, my wife and I had planned to swing dance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Not only would it be fun, how may people could say they danced at the Kennedy Center?
Luckily for us, we were invited to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving supper. The company was as wonderful as the food. It was a Happy Thanksgiving, filled with good friends and good food. It was worth missing dancing at the Kennedy Center–we danced Friday night at the Dulles Hilton with the Jive Aces from London playing.
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I found my T-shirt from the tour but couldn’t find my ticket stub. I was bummed out that I’d lost the stub.
I collect the stubs of events I attend, including concerts and sporting events. It’s a reminder of a good time. For all of my other concerts, I put the ticket stubs in the CD the tour promoted. On the rare chance that I didn’t buy the CD but still went to the concert, I put it in the closest CD. An example of the latter case was the Boston concert earlier this year. I didn’t buy their latest CD (I didn’t know they had one out.), but I went to the concert–it was a bucket list concert.
Some folks have asked why I’ve taken up swing dancing.
It’s an interesting question. In part, I wanted to do a social activity. A friend who introduced me to it said it was “wholesome.” At first, I thought it kind of odd, funny even, considering that dancers constantly switch partners, but it really is wholesome.
The Pittsburgh Steelers managed somehow to lose against Tampa Bay.
I didn’t see the game, except for the last 1:30. From what I saw, the Steelers couldn’t do anything right. They couldn’t sustain a drive to run time off of the clock. They punted for 29 yards. (I can punt that far!) Then the defense allows Tampa Bay to march the short field and score.
Fear is a powerful, perhaps the most powerful, driver of people. It can push a person to perform impressive feats.
Think of what continues to drive a highly successful person. Is it fear? Is it the fear of winding up penniless? Is this why a billionaire continues to work, take risks, and make money?
When in the woods and a person see a bear, fear urges caution and retreat. The person will walk the other way, cautiously and quickly.
The person driven by these fears is harnessing them to a positive end.
Last week, I turned down the opportunity to have a short story entitled “Man Up” published in an anthology.
One of my goals is to write and publish. So, why did I decline?
My story’s word count is 4300 words–the word limit for the anthology is 3000 words. I would’ve had to cut a quarter of the story’s words, which would’ve compromised it. Further, the publisher wanted me to rewrite the ending to cast it as less Christian oriented.
Some time back, I contributed to the Atlas Shrugged, Part III Kickstarter campaign. I feel strongly that this movie (as well as the prior two) need to be made. Not only is the story good, but the message needs to be broadcast and heard. There is a relationship between people who produce and the environment … Read more
