One day off...

I don't know about most people, but I live for experiences I make for myself on my days off, and I don't intend to spend those days sitting in front of a television set watching others pretend to live, I intend to live myself!  I work six days per week, at a job I enjoy, but it doesn't generate a lot of money and it is taxing on me as I'm always moving, always doing something; I do this six days per week to earn very little, but it is a job that allows me time to write, allows me to walk to work (very close to home), and for now, is something I don't languish at the thought of having to do it everyday (the major selling point for me...I absolutely HATE working at something I don't enjoy....when I was doing drywall finishing, the only thing I liked was that I worked with good friends.)

I still look...

It's been awhile since I have had a steady girlfriend, and at the moment, I like it this way.  It isn't that I don't want intimacy and a female companion, it's just at the moment, I'm changing careers, I'm settling in a new place, and everything is in flux; if I were in a steady relationship none of these possibilities would be transpiring for me.  It's easier to take risks when the only one who has to change is me.  

Out for a run!

I've run/walk 30 miles in 3 days.  I do my best to run a 10 mile route, but if I can't quite finish the 10 running I always do a full 10, even when I've pulled my calf muscle so I can't run, I walk the 10 mile route; I have to be outside and active, it drives me nuts to sit in the house, library, anywhere....and I have a feeling living here in Minnesota is going to mean indoor winters, unless I develop a love for the cold and snow that I've never had before...who knows, crazier things have happened to me!!! 

It's just the way it's done!

It appears it is the custom that if you live on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota that you camp at a different lake in Minnesota, because that... is just the way it is done!

A little bit each day...

I am told that I need to have 80,000 to 120,000 word count for a publisher to consider it worth taking a look at, and I have several stupid ideas about trying to write a great novel in 30 days....which I think is absolutely nuts.  I've been researching and note-taking for a year, and now I'm ready to begin the 1st of the 13 book series, which will culminate in a 5 book follow up series.  I expect it to take me approximately 4 to 5 months per year to write each novel, and the rest preparation for the next; I expect a lot out of me, and goddamn't if I fail, it ain't gonna be because I wasn't dedicated to the project!

Sunday Fun Day

In modern America it is a bit odd to come across the still Puritanical Liquor Laws that keep such establishments as liquor stores closed on Sundays; coming from a state like Hawaii that sells everything in the grocery store, this seems a bit out of time...but this does keep some traditions for what I'm told is called "Sunday Fun Day."  The boys pull out there Harley, Honda, and other rides cruise the countryside, and make the expected parade through the various little towns, meeting up and various "watering holes" to satisfy that parched desire for a frosty glass of amber summer solstice and keep the journey and experience a social one.  I was invited along on this and I was given the grand tour or farm, female, and fermentation; it was great experience, a memory I'll be keeping and met great people!

Meeting new people / making new friends!

It's been a long sojourn into this isolated hermit-ish style existence I chose to call life; a sad commentary on the last few years as I buried myself in morose and found no comfort.  New beginnings demand change!  I demand more of me; to find in people the social allowance that we all find necessary I have to give more of me, and I'm doing that here in my new community, and the people here are very easy with which to do so.

How do I get to know a new area?

I go for a run!

10 miles and a couple of hours later I get an idea of the surrounding layout of the community I may call home for awhile.  Walking and Running is the way I always get to know these facts:  I get out the first couple of weeks and walk the entire vicinity, get to know the local businesses, and hit the pavement running, and find my way around.  Once I know the ground, then I'm all set to drive anyway I need to go.

Burn the ships!!!!! Carpe Diem

Great day of productive business work of the writing career.  I feel good with what I got accomplished today.  I designed my new business cards, obtained the name for the .com that will be my webpage for published works, links to

blogs, and hopefully, what will become a real lucrative investment giving the time and commitment to broadcasting and selling my name and the works that go with it.  I'm excited about it; the tangible aspects of my new career beginning to shape up as I leave the ideas of the business behind, the dreams of the past burn with the ships to return to safe harbors, and the new day is mine to seize and claim as my own!

Born In the USA

"Born in the U.S.A."
Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A.

The song roaring out the patriotism and 80's feel good rock fills my ears as I down a couple of pints at the local American Legion, a place that could become a staple in my daily diet of the local Midwestern experience now my new hometown dig.  It is a new venture into my whole approach to embracing the path of career, experience, and discovery as I leave the old behind.  I set aside the past, give it's proper place of homage upon the shelves of the den, the portraits along the hall, and leave it for the themes of nostalgia for future Widsom blogs, teaching for the young and laughs for the fools who shared those days with me.

Beginning the foundation!

I have envisioned building a small writers guild, blogger network (where we all know each other, collaborate and guest host, and a place for fellow mystic minded atheists and agnostic theists can gather all find a social outlet, place to post their thoughts, and an attraction for blog readers and feed finders.  I want to build a small community that attracts viewers for the content of the writing as well the depth of insight offered and the experiences being shared.

Inspiration

Today I published a post to one of my other blogs on Love, and how the smile of the face that inspires my passion for almost everything I pursue is something I keep in a photo that I can look at and remember why I strive so hard.  

It is important for us to have those things that remind us of the meaning of it all, the reason why we don't quit life, why we don't give up up our goals, why we endure the pressure and setbacks to the ever so distant fulfillment of the dream we desperately pursue and pray will find it's way into the reality of our daily lives.  

Dreaming of Romance

I often have dreams of love and romance, that waiting for the perfect one for me will ultimately prove true, while ignoring the evidence suggests that love although it may cover all, it certainly doesn't live up to the attribute "love never fails".  I wish that weren't the case but experience and life have taught this lesson and embedded it into my psyche firmly, no matter how much I wish love were the ultimate answer in finding the dream romance it is only one piece of the problem to decode, not the revelation of everything itself, so Love when sought for its own sake in Romance, will never keep romance and passion alive by itself, if that is the expectation then love will fail, and probably every time.