As the savvy reader will know, I use this space to catalog information for novels and ideas for stories. There my Great Lines thread (HERE), my Last Lines thread (HERE), Evershade thread (HERE) and now the Everyday Sox thread (HERE).
Well, as a part of the story I'm developing for Everyday Sox - it's already written, but it needs to be refined - there is a character who is the foundation for the main character, the lodestone, the stabilizing agent. He's a speaker of plain truths.
To begin, I work in a very macho industry. Petrochem and refining is right up there in many respects to upstream oil and gas drilling or offshore deckhand and roustabouts. I support and work with guys who turn wrenches and have grime and much on their hands.
I bring all this up, because I don't necessarily like the same types of movies that my colleagues and compatriots like. Never have been. Anyone who knows me knows this. I shut down for a month or more before Christmas exclusively to watch Lifetime and Hallmark channel movies. I promoted the idea of a blog to rate and review Lifetime and Hallmark movies. Look through this blog and you'll see that it's littered with reviews of rom-coms, and romance and more. Hell, one of my life's goals is to write a novel that eventually get's turned into a Lifetime or Hallmark movie . . . anyone heard of Everyday Sox? That's the one!
In 2001 I saw the movie Amélie. Loved it. Reminiscent of my time in Paris, well acted, funny and intriguing story, quirky, and a cute girl. What's not to like.
Now?
Well, now I think my favorite movie (if we exclude Rear Window, Fury Road, North by Northwest, etc etc) is Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.
Right now I’m working on three different stories, all of which I’m hoping to turn into finished novels. I figure that since I’m getting to the end of my PhD and there will be fewer and fewer posts on adult learning, . . . Hopefully there will be just as many on self-authorship, . . . But in the spirit of finding daily content . . . I guess posting about those three (hopeful) novels will keep my blog filled.
So I guess I’ll give a quick synopsis of each and then throughout the days further develop each book as we go.
Great moments can come from anywhere. This morning I was getting the kiddo ready for school and out of the blue he says: "Alexa play ... thank you for the happiest year of my life." (File this one in the everyday Sox category cause I think I know how I'll use this in that novel! See HERE).
Now the younger, who I always thought would be more on the sporty side of things, is digging music too. He still kills it on the soccer field, the basketball court, football field, and in any other sport, but then there are times when he gets out his instrument and hits it out of the park. The other day, in the middle of my class, I took a break and went downstairs and there was the older one teaching the younger one an ersatz class on time and measures while reading music. Unreal!
Regardless, back to the story. Here's this twelve-year-old cat who asks Alexa not to play Imagine Dragons, or anything else of that ilk, but asks for ... thank you for the happiest year of my life.
So I listened.
Bowled over is an understatement. Who knew he was such an old soul! The lyrics are impactful, but one or two lines really got me.
By the way ... if during the song, while that little kiddo is singing those lyrics, and he's soulful, and into the music, eyes closed, really belting out that ballad ... and you start saying "your welcome" to him after each time he says "thank you for the happiest year of my life" ... he won't find it as funny as you do. Just saying.
The last series I kept updated petered out, so I'm starting a new one. Thinking of naming it "Everyday Sox" for reasons that should not be at all clear to anyone but me. It's a place to put not just "Great Lines" (see HERE for more of those) but also poetic asides I run across, little mementos of writing I see, or other things that I come across that are poignant and deserve being remembered.
