October 2021 Blog
Point of Reference: A Haiku
“Strike while the iron is
Hot!” is lost now on those who
Neither brand nor iron.
by Ann Wilmer-Lasky
This is my month for old bromides.
Along with the title, I’ll add: “Sufficient unto the day are the problems thereof.”
To me, that’s far more dire than: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do
today.” My personal short version of them all is: “Now! Before it’s never!”
I probably should put these all on
3x5 cards and post them all over the house, but I never seem to “get around to
it”.
I’ve heard these things all my
life, and until lately, I’ve just brushed them off. Now, they seem more
important and pressing than ever, since my time to “do it later” is becoming
more and more restricted. Seems like “I’ve got the rest of my life” isn’t that
much time any more.
And in whatever time I have left, I
need to publish at least half-a-dozen more novels and an equal number of poetry
chapbooks. Guess I better “get cranking”! (OK, we don’t do that anymore, either.)
How about “A stitch in time”? I
never could figure out the rest of it – “saves nine” didn’t make much sense to
me as a child and still doesn’t all these years later.
Some of these would work well in my
Sam Rock novels. That’s the time period I remember them from, but probably not
in many of my other novels. I include references to them in my Haiku chapbooks
more as explanations to the past than anything.
But for most, I think I should “let
sleeping dogs lie”, which is still a good idea for sleeping dogs. They have a
tendency to snap when they are startled.
After the Sam Rock sequel is done,
I’m thinking of putting together a “Life’s Lemons and Lemonade” chapbook on
life as I know it. I’m sure a lot of bromides will find their way in, in some
form or other. The more I think about it, the better it sounds. There’s sure
been plenty of “Life’s Lemons” these last few years to provide a lot of “Lemonade”.
Not much sweetener, though. We just do the best we can.
Hoping already for a better next
year, even as I hear news about there being yet another Covid variant discovered.
I’m ready for an end to it all already. In the meantime, I’m going nowhere and
doing very little, I’ll keep writing. It does “pass the time” or “fill it” as
Norman Bates says of his taxidermy. (One of my favorite movies – watching it in
the background as we speak)
Think I’ll end this now and enjoy “Psycho”
while keeping in mind the immortal lyrics “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you
think.”
Until
next time, read and write to your heart’s content. My eclectic collection of
reading matter may take your mind off things. Enjoy.
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Hopefully,
next month will find us on top of this thing, but that’s what I said the last several months,
and it hasn’t happened yet. However, I am still hoping...
