Today has been a good day, with many fears faced and hurdles attacked. As expected, the fears and hurdles are ahead on points, but the day isn’t done yet and I’m still swinging.
Many numbers both small and large have been herded into order so that my income taxes can be prepared. Given the last year’s employment (or lack thereof) situation, I’m not looking forward to getting any good news when all is said and done in the next two weeks. At this point, if the news is bad, at least that will mean that the news won’t be really, really bad.
But it’s necessary at times to realize that there aren’t any good alternatives, or at least none that you’re going to like. Even then it’s possible and generally necessary to distinguish between the bad and the catastrophic, choosing, and working to live with the bad and move on.
In better news, I’ve also herded many words today, something that’s also been put off for far too many days and weeks. There are always plenty of excuses to not get it done, when what is needed is a single reason to get it done anyway.
Today, I’m at 2,308 words on my way to 3,000, so it has been a good day.
More importantly, I was reading over the Chapter Six I wrote weeks ago, in order to get my head back into the story for Chapter Seven. And I really liked what I had written. It was making me laugh reading it and I was almost having trouble believing that it had come from my brain. I really like the characters, I really like the wacky, madcap, slapstick story I’ve got going.
I’m still a very green novice, groping my way through this process, but that feels like it’s a good sign.
Through it all today, it’s “Baseball New Year’s Day,” opening day for most teams. (We won’t count those two games last week in Australia or last night’s gala opening game in San Diego.) Even if your team didn’t win today, there are still 161 games left. If your team won today — don’t get cocky, kid.
As Crash Davis said in “Bull Durham” (truly one of the finest movies ever made):
“Some days you win. Some days you lose. Some days…it rains.”
That’s still some really deep stuff there.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 