Bye-bye Doesn't Mean Forever

Just like this post (see HERE) and the song "Afternoon Delight" in Arrested Development (see HERE), it's always fun when you listen to a song with new eyes (or ears) and discover something about it you didn't ever realize was there. 

I was always a huge fan of Colin Powell's. I was in the military when he was not in the Military or politics, but he was one reason (among many) that I joined. I read My American Journey when it first came out in 1995 and it helped inspire me to enlist. I heard that there were a lot of references to Abba at Colin Powell's funeral this past week. He was a huge fan and in one story about him, he recited the lyrics of Abba's Mamma Mia to the Swedish ambassador. 

Therefore I went back to look at the lyrics and wow, I was stunned. I didn't know it was such an covertly deep song. The treacly music masks something deeper. 

How Has This Not Made the List Yet?

 When I was in college, I was the captain and president of the lacrosse team, and for a short time the “face off” specialist. My buddy Jay and I had a technique where I would clamp the ball on the whistle, spin my back onto the other player, and then flip the ball directly to Jay as he raced towards us. He wouldn’t he have to move his stick, I’d just be able to pop it directly to him and off he raced for a goal. 

That could have been the apex of my life (been nadirs ever since?)

These Hit Me As Well

 I ran across a few lines that hit me so much I thought I would share (like these). They come from a different source, anonymous this time, so I hope they don't mind me posting them. I doubt that they do.

The first I liked because so often water and waves and the ocean are used in analogies. Probably because it's something everyone can relate to and it never stops moving. 

I was sand

you were waves.

Every time you inched closer,

you pulled away.

Shouting in the Wilderness

 Feels like I'm shouting into the wilderness with these posts now . . . talking to no one . . . maybe this label group of ever shade has run its course (see here), but I saw a few more that hit me.

Molly writes:

All I want is peace and sweep me off my feet chemistry.
Fuck! Why is it that hard?

Write Everyday

My colleague, Anne, and I were on a team recently, and she brought up a great line from our book. She wrote that we as students writing our dissertation need to write from the “outset of their study.” 

Although I was not struck by that particular line and page as Anne was saying, but I will say that I have heard similar advice from many people in my journey so far. The most prescient being "write a little everyday." I might not be following that to a "T" just yet, but I am "moving forward every week." 

Adjustment Bureau Line Almost

 I ran across a silly movie that I watched on a plane years ago. It's a Matt Damon and Emily Blunt vehicle, and honestly, I don't know how it got made. The writing is pretty standard, the story is silly, the scope is limited. The acting is good, but that's because it has so many good actors in it. 

At the end of the Adjustment Bureau the two main characters who are in love have to risk their lives and their futures for each other and there's potentially wonderfully soliloquy on the verge of being delivered. It doesn't come. Instead there is a humdrum couple of lines about risk and love. 

Reading, Reading and More Reading

We are doing alot of reading and critical reading for class lately. Although there are no specific outside texts that I use when I think about critical reading and critical analysis, but I took to heart something that our professor said at the beginning of the class. 

Prior to taking this class I was being very specific and targeted in my approach to reading texts that might provide support for my area of interest, Virtual Reality and Spaced Practice for Refinery Technicians. Earlier in the class our professional mentioned that we as students might read a dozen articles that might not have much meaning to us specifically, but will most likely lead to other texts and other articles that will be more meaningful. 

A Few More that Caught My Eye

 I saw a few more to add to this list of great lines et al.

This one comes from my North Connection again, but via Sassy 'n Shit (a moniker I think is awesome). 

Your heart is the hardest thing to convince when it's time to let someone go.

Another Great One (or Two)

As anyone who reads this blog will know, I love reposting content that hits me deeply in my soul from a Twitter user I follow (see more HERE)

Today's are poignant and powerful as well.

First from Skywatcher is this one on ghosts:

Some people, although living and breathing, must remain ghosts, unreachable, by their own choosing. 

Couple From Up North

As you all know I glommed onto a Twitter account with some terrific, and poetic content, (see more of it HERE) that every now and then I like to repost and share because some of them hit me. 

Today's was definitely a hitter. It comes from Your Devil:

I can't save you. I don't even want to. I spend and inordinate amount of energy just to be able to function in this dysfunctional world. If you can't meet me half way then we have nothing. I won't let you drown both of us.

This next one, from Jess, is simple, straightforward, and powerful as well:

Silence screams the loudest answers. 

Evershade, evershades, ever shade, ever shades, shades of Betsy