October
2017 Blog
The
year is now three-fourths over and I am dead in the water.
Stagnation:
A Haiku
These
feet, mired in the
Muddied
waters of life, long
To
dance on the air.
Stagnation:
#WritersBlock and
#LifeBlock
Only
in forward movement is there life worth living. I should think on
this more often. I’m certainly not living it.
It
has been a year now since publishing my “Life's
Lemons and Lemonade: A Collection of Haiku: Volume One: One for the
Book” (http://tinyurl.com/zuayqu8).
I
should have another novel out and at least two more Haiku
collections. But I don’t.
And
there’s no one to blame but me. I have fallen into the rut of
living day to day and expecting there to be a tomorrow, even though I
know there are no guarantees.
Maybe
I’m thinking that if I keep living in expectation of tomorrow, it
will always come. Now, I know I’m not that delusional, but it does
lend a certain rationality to my behavior (or lack thereof).
Three-fourths
of this year gone. One year since my last release date. An actual
dead line staring me in the face, and a nap is the best thing each
day I can look forward to. I need to find the energy or at least the
fortitude to start cranking out some more works I’ve had in
progress way too long.
There
are three months left in the year.
I’d
like to see the sequel to my paranormal
western “Black
Oak: Town of Joy” (http://tinyurl.com/hohuhce )
on the market.
The
sequel is already written. All I have to do is the final edit, format
it and hit publish.
I’d
also like to see two more Haiku collections hit the market. They will
take a little more work. I’ve got three subjects I’m currently
gathering material for. One is on writing – hopefully with all
kinds of helpful hints to overcome writer’s block or lend
inspiration to writers who might need that extra boost I seem to
constantly need.
The
second one is about our Universe and this planet Earth that we are so
badly using. It is to be called “Global Warning” and I hope it
serves as such, although I fear it will be but another voice
“crying-in-the-wilderness”.
Another
is a collection of Haiku and other poetry to be called “Dark
Horizons” – a compilation of the darker side of me, the side that
is closer to Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf than even I
care to admit.
Gee,
talking about them almost makes me want to stop writing this and get
to work on them, but then, I’ve left writing this blog to the last
minute again, so I’d best keep at it. I would like to keep this
year’s blog record intact. This will be my tenth month in a row to
post it on time.
So
I’ll keep writing this while I’m catching glimpses of the latest
episode of the Ray Donovan show, which appears to be all about the
right-to-die and/or assisted suicide.
I
am surprised that they did this so openly. I don’t think it would
have been possible to get it aired a few years ago – even on HBO.
It is surely a topic that needs to be addressed. As morbid as it may
seem, it is an important subject. Something that we need to
legitimize along with all the other personal rights that should be a
given by now. But these rights, it seems, we have to keep fighting
for over and over again.
And
while I’ve gotten off topic, why does the greatest nation on Earth
still not have Universal Health Care?
Really,
it’s one of those things I thought we’d have before I died, along
with a woman’s right to choose, racial equality, and justice for
all.
I
guess some things will have to wait until my next incarnation.
Until
then, I welcome your reactions and responses to my current rantings.
I love to hear from my readers. Also, here are links to my Twitter
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