Losing Smell

 The other day I posted about how I contracted Covid. I tested positive and that night I realized I couldn't smell the coffee that I was making. It took less than 12 hours from the time I tested positive that I lost my sense of smell and it effected me far more than I would have ever thought. 

I have heard from others about the loss of sense from others. Tommy, Sarah, Maria, all of them have told me about it when they had to deal with Covid themselves, but it was mostly just one more data point that I would log. Once it occurs to you it changes the perspective. 

Some More Great Ones

 I've run into a few more great lines that I've cataloged into my "Ever Shade" label (see here) for posterity. They all come from the same aggregator, and I may have . . . "may" have . . . changed a word or two. 

The first is apropos for this blog:

I fall in love with books more than people.

How true is that. I can think of hundreds and dozens of books that I've loved. I won't say the second half of that statement, but it's a truism aint it?

Another Great One

 This one is similar to one I posted a while back (see here), as a part of my ever shades post (see here) or is it evershade? Maybe evershades? Regardless, I'm not sure why I didn't post this then. Maybe times have changed, maybe I was just listening at the right moment this time. 

I don't normally listen to Adele or country music. Too many memories and thoughts that I'd rather avoid. My children don't hold to the same guideance however so the other day someone asked Alexa to play Hello by Adele, and it was this that hit me.

Hello from the other side

I must've called a thousand times

To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done

But when I call, you never seem to be home

Lines On Love

 I ran into these few lines today which I thought fit perfectly with my Ever Shade label (see here). Most of these are on love and loving others. 

The first is a good one. A quick, somewhat deep one that hit me.

Just a forever love kind of guy living in a temporary love kind of world.

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.