Playing for Keeps

I just finished a wonderful audiobook in podcast format. I wanted to offer it up as a recommendation to all.

Playing for Keeps, by Mur Lafferty

From the site...

It tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren't strong enough to make a difference. Or that's what they've been told. As the city begins to melt down, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.

Please go to the site and have a listen. I think you'll enjoy it!

Writing again

Many thanks to my inspirations. After a hiatus of almost 4 months, I have begun to release the beast that wishes to continue to tell stories. After fighting off a migraine last night, I managed to drop 587 words in "Age of Aurals"

Hats off to my writing heroes!

• Mur Lafferty
• J.C. Hutchins
• Scott Sigler

Many Thanks to you all!

Shady Rest

a memoir

The air outside is close, close like a wool blanket pulled up to your chin, and warm, like being in the wool blanket in front of a wood burning stove as it changes from the normal black to more of a gray shade. There is no breeze to rustle the shards of bright green – the faces turned toward the great light, soaking in every ray and loving it.

The topmost fork of three branches provide just enough room to sit. If I were to stand, my head would part the faces of green but expose me to the fiery furnace and instantly soak my shirt.

It is in this crook, at the top of the maple tree just outside my grandparents’ farmhouse, I sit and escape the summer’s assault.

I enjoy the day in my Shady Rest.

Something I am working on....

A Zen Moment

This morning, while driving my 2 hour commute between Charlotte and Columbia, I had a moment.

Things were rumbling through my mind as I drove:

• TD0013 is such an odd character, as I listen to "A Different Point of View"
• I haven't listened to Wingin It or Slice of Scifi in a long time
• Looking forward to the 7 hour drive back to Alabama Friday night
• Looking forward to seeing the family this weekend
• Sorry that I could not see Toni on Valentines Day
• Thinking about what I could accomplish today on my projects
• Monitoring the speed and keeping an eye out for cops
• Wishing I had taken it a little slower on this tank of gas for better fuel efficiency
• I must remember to send Matt Selznick a twitter to thank him for DIY Endeavors #65
  

Then, something odd happened. It felt like a shift or refocus of attention - Like when you suddenly identify a sound you have been hearing for a while but only really just noticed it, or when you are looking at something and it "clicks" and suddenly makes sense.

All of a sudden, all my chatty thoughts were quiet, the day was beautiful, and I was centered and at peace. The feeling stayed with me for about 30 seconds, before my mind began to have chatty thoughts again.

I'm at work and the chatty thoughts abound again, but if I stop and think about that moment, I can again have a moment of peace.