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Tuesday

Dec152009

write away.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 9:39AM

Last week's mindset:

I'm not a writer. I'm really not. I love to write, but I'm not a writer. If you asked me to write about the divine prosperity in West India - I would look at you sideways and might flip you the bird. I can't write well about something that I don't understand, agree with, or like. So that makes me a person that loves to write. Not a writer. No? If Michael Jordan could only score when he was wide open... would he be a basketball legend? I think not. If you can only read music when you know the song, can you really read music? That would be a negative.

This week's mindset:

I genuinely love to write. I love the feeling of aligning the perfect words side by side to create a beautiful thought... that would in turn transform someone else's thought. It's magical. Really. If I don't genuinely feel it, however, it's not happening - it comes out as pure cockamamy (sp?) BS. Maybe I am a writer. Yep, I said it. Maybe I'm just a writer with a few caveats:

Caveat #1: If I don't agree with it, I won't write about it.

Caveat #2: If I don't like it (the subject), or you, I won't write about it.

Caveat #3: If I don't understand it, I might try to write about it, but I might lie in the process.

Caveat #4: I can't write on demand - it takes me 3-5 hours over the course of a few days, a Chai Latte or two, a long shower, and about 5 miles worth of running, to formulate my thoughts often.

Caveat #5: If I'm hungry or cold, I refuse to even talk, more or less write.

Caveat #6: If I'm bored, I make a point to make sure the audience is as well.

Caveat #7: Big words turn me on - even if they don't make sense in a sentence.

Conclusion:

I will never get hired as a writer. But I will always love to write.

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Tuesday

Jul072009

a miracle

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 8:51PM

Last night, I heard a rather profound line in the last moments of a movie I was watching. A character to which the audience had not seen for the first two hours and 34 minutes said one of the most meaninful quotes...

"Safety is the greatest risk of all, because safety leaves no room for miracles and miracles are the only sure thing in life. "

I'm still wrapping my brain about what it means, but here's what I have so far...

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature (St. Augustine)

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle (Marianne Williamson).

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands (Jeff Cooper).

So is it is a good thing to be safe? Because the more safe you are, the less likely a miracle will find its way to your situation. Right? But does one need a miracle if they are really safe?

You see my dilemma? Boom boom goes the fireworks in my head.

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Monday

May182009

season finale

Monday, May 18, 2009 at 11:53PM

Much of my favorite TV programming is coming to an end for the season. It's challenging, I must admit - an abrupt end to a storyline in which I have devoted much of my evenings getting attached. Albeit drama, reality, or some other weekly goodness I won't admit, it's all coming to an end for another season. Izzy and George (Grey's Anatomy) may be dead, Jack (24), clearly can't die, because he is the show - but his "imminent death" is implied... God only knows what's going to happen on American Idol tomorrow... and Dancing with the Stars. The good news about these finale's is that they always come back - often times with a better storyline than the season before. Assuming the producers learn from their mistakes in the previous seasons, they enrich the content for next time...

If that aint a parallel to life, I don't know what is. My most recent season was full of challenge, questions, experiences, love and discovery. There was drama - because no good season is without, and there was understanding. But alas, the long-awaited, inevitable, screeching halt came. My season finale was full of emotion, tears, and learning. And then it was over. The cast and crew is a little sad, the audience is still in shock, and the producers... well they are getting ready for a possible season two. Season one was for learning... they picked up some good pointers along the way, understand what the episodes need and don't need, and have come to an agreement as to what will make the series the most successful.

The off season will be good. The off season is needed. It wil be a time to gather thoughts, reflect, grow, experiment and regroup. So now the producers will sit back, and take note as to what the other episodes are doing in this new season, what's working... what's not, and add their own little creative twist to season two of their one-of-a-kind series they lovingly refer to as "Life."

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Wednesday

Apr292009

atlanta swine

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 10:34PM

As a powerful episode of CSI:NY comes to an end - that annoying "warning" marquee that usually just gets in the way of that anticipated scene actually caught my eye. Perhaps it was those three initials that scare the bejeezus out of everyone: CDC, or maybe I was just feeling extra attentive. Either way - the Atlanta branch of the CDC think the swine flu may have made it to Atlanta. They are investigating it now - but I mean really?

Can they verify these things first... then let us know? Can we identify this presumed swine and then make an announcement? Is that really too much to ask? This whole "rumor" started when nosey Atlantans found out that a "sample" of the swine flu was flown into Atlanta for testing. You know we folk here in Atlanta are paranoid anyway. We don't even go to work in the rain! Next thing you know - everyone in Atlanta will become vegetarians, for fear of eating pork.

God help us.

{kris} |

rushing into forever

Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:49AM

Sometimes you hear the most profound pieces of wisdom, from whom you least expect... and when you least expect to hear it. It is those things - ironically - that I tend to pay attention to most. It's usually not solicited... it's usually random... it's usually from a person who doesn't really know you... which, in my world, makes it that much more powerful.

I was out to dinner the other night with a group of friends - celebrating a birthday. I was sitting beside a man that I know... but not really. I enjoy his wife greatly - which is how I came to know him. He started talking about his relationship with his wife, it's ups and downs... it's evolution... and so on. I was listening intently, not saying a whole lot (not sure if it was because my appletini was that good, or if yours truly was just speechless), taking it all in. Then he moved on to the L.A. Lakers and their performance in the playoffs thus far - which yielded a whole new set of emotions.

The man paused right after he spat some Kobe stats, and said "you know, there is one piece of advice that I hold near and dear to my hear, and it's that you can't rush into forever." Where in the world did that come from? You think Kobe's rushing? He realized, by my expression - that I lost him in his train of thought, and he expressed his apologies for jumping subjects - but he just wanted to make sure he didn't forget to tell me that.

I nearly choked on the cherry in my appletini - that hit home. Hard. He didn't know it at the time - that was probably exactly what I needed to hear at that very moment....

Forever is a long time...

{kris} |