The long game or the now?
That’s the topic. Heading off to a day conference. Will think more.
a string of phrases
Tempus fugit I’d heard the phrase a couple of times. Or, more acurately misheard it as tempest fugit. I figured it was some kind of storm. Nope. Latin phrase for “time flies”. It does. But it does also feel kinda stormy. It’s a bumpy ride. For some reason, this leads me to memento mori. Memento mori (Latin: “remember that you have to die”)[2] is the medieval Latin Christian theory and …
a rhetorical question
How often does it happen that your head and your heart are in agreement? At seem point one will catch up with the other (though who is in the lead or is ultimately correct is always a separate question). This seems apropos.
bat girl
Back is whack. Hanging upside down. No. There will be no picture.
absence makes
Absence makes the heart grow fonder or forgetful. -Peter Pan Most people know the beginning part of that phrase, not so much the second addition. I looked it up. That was Barrie’s take on the phrase. P said he loved me and he left. So saying the thing doesn’t really matter when at the end of the day they’re gone. He felt bad about it but wanted to maintain …
Lazy Sunday
The SNL short doesn’t seem to be available. “The Chronic…What?..cles of Narnia” will not be making an appearance. But that wasn’t what my lazy Sunday is about anyhoo. Doug just took off and is headed back for his DnD campaign. Just a visit to get out of Kingston for a bit and I’d told him he had a place to stay any time he came back. He’s firmly in the …
We’ll call it Friday
Everybody is just doing the best they can.
monkey progression
So I have been stuck with “Monkeys In the Attic”. I had a series of dialogs, but no end to the story. What if the monkey-voices are represented as loops? They might be literal broken records, skips, obsessively repeated motions. I can choreograph the movements. Repetition can go the direction of increasingly frenetic, or become depressingly the same and ponderous. The advantage of representing the monkey chorus this way, is …
waltz
The melody plays. It calls. Without thinking, she does the dance. One-two-three One-two-three The same steps in the same order. It’s a loop. It’s a rut.
staying where you are is still a choice
…whether it be physical, mental, emotional or even the relative position in a relationship. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Alice in Wonderland “If I don’t like where I am, I could…I should move or make myself comfortable where I’m at.” She runs through the various spaces she occupies. “No, no, no, that won’t do.” She can put her home to right. Though …