You ever eat a pastry, like a doughnut or a bear claw, in the morning as you’re drinking your coffee (or tea), and think, this is not healthy, but it really tastes good?
Yeah. Once in a while.
Thursday’s Theme Music
My mind works in a stream of connections that’s difficult to corrall. Sometimes they hit and fire neurons into expected directions.
Like today. Out of the fire streams “Psycho Killer” by the Talking Heads. Interesting song. Anything to do with Thursday? No. Thanksgiving? Not that I recall. Dreams, or writing? Nope, and no.
It just pops in. Maybe I heard a fragment of sound or glimpsed a word or image that fired the song back to life in my head. Yeah, it’s a Frankenstein existence up there.
Cool song, though. fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better than many others.
While
While I looked out the window.
And studied the rainbow.
And thought about rainbows and the myths and science about them.
And admired its beauty.
While sleep was still being chased away.
And thoughts frolicked with dream remnants.
And the day’s planned activities opened in my mind like a hand of cards.
And I thought about making the first cup of coffee.
While I thought about what I was going to do today.
And what I needed to do.
I turned to my computer, and opened my file.
The file of the section of the novel in progress I’m working on.
And I typed.
A hundred words.
Five hundred.
One thousand.
Twelve hundred.
Fifteen hundred.
Then the scene was done.
And I reviewed what I’d written.
And closed the file.
And while I thought about what I’d just written.
And what was to be written.
And what it meant for what was already written.
I went to make my morning coffee.
Thanksgiving Thursday
If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope the day is joyful, the food and drink is plentiful, and you have a chance to relax and enjoy yourself.
If you’re not celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope the day is joyful, the food and drink is plentiful, and you have a chance to relax and enjoy yourself.
That’s my hope for everyone for everyday.
Michael Seidel, writer 