Mood: Sunfresh
Today is Monday 20, 2024. We’re paddling toward May’s end, on course to the middle of 2024.
I awoke to a broadside of sunshine. High white clouds faint as a fading spring breeze streak the blue sky. 68 F already, we’ll brush up against the mid 80s once again.
Yesterday was flat-out wonderful for me. We feted a new sixteen-year-old’s milestone at the littlest sister’s home. Talking around the kitchen table, playing with sis’s wonderful dog (Chloe), and eating made up the gist of the five hours we were there. It was the standard teenager fare of pizza, hoagies, chips, and cake with ice cream. All participants got along well. No fights were heard and very few disagreements. All of this was done under a light summer feel. It was a day of happiness where worries were scarce.
I’m going to brush aside politics and world news for now. I know it’s out there but I’d rather maintain a posture of innocence and hope for one more day.
I had a terrific writing day yesterday morning as well. Disliking breaking away from that activity, I thought, I could use more time. That prompted me to get up earlier today and out the door to get more time. While I was dressing, eager to have more time, “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon (2008) was plugged into the morning mental music stream (Trademark faded). I accepted it as the day’s theme song even though I was about using more time and not using somebody.
Stay strong, be positive, lean forward, and experience a good day. Coffee has begun its journey through my physical being and I’m feeling solid. Here’s the music. Hey, ho, let’s go. Cheers
Michael Seidel, writer 
Hi Michael. I am glad you had a great writing day that was very productive. I understand that feeling. Most times I am about two days behind on blogs, and sometimes I get so close to being caught up to the very minutes. The feeling of accomplishment is an overwhelming feeling of warm sun with a gentle breeze across the skin, the first spoonful of one’s favorite ice cream, the feeling of a cat who curls up pressed into you purring just so happy to be near you. Others may have their own versions of that feeling, but those are some of mine. That you were disciplined enough to create the time to write and stay on your goal with being so far from home, your regular routine, and with everything going on around you, shows you are a true author. Hugs. Scottie
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Thanks, Scottie. You captured that gist of satisfaction with your analogies. Can’t say it’s discipline so much as the writing addiction, simply expressed as ‘write or die’. Hugs, bro’.
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