There is no shortage of cultural and global issues to be part of right now. I donate, volunteer, and support. But I’m constantly at odds with where to put my public service energy, often becoming overwhelmed by all the options*. I also get sidetracked, wondering if the space where others live inspires or suppresses them? […]
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Summer 2021
When I travel or am in the midst of substantial change, I often think of the lyrics, “This time tomorrow, where will we be?” from “This Time Tomorrow” by The Kinks. After a year of Covid hyper-vigilance, I experience a similar kind of transience every day. A simple event–like going out to dinner–is oddly exciting and unfamiliar.
I feel like songwriter Ray Davies when he explains the inspiration for writing the song: “I felt that I’d lost contact with my family. Because I’d been in a pop music bubble for five years, and I didn’t know the people around me anymore. ‘This Time Tomorrow’ was about transience, and an ephemeral world. Clouds, and where do we play tomorrow, and what am I doing as a person tomorrow? It’s a floating song, and I was floating into a different era. Going with the flow for a while, until I work out where I want to be.”
There is no doubt: I am “floating into a different era.” There is a persistent unknown in my day-to-day life. Yet, the unknown provides opportunity. I’m not bound to “what was” and am buoyed by “what could be.” Not what will be.
After all, I do have a say.
On Teetering
Teetering. To teeter. To wobble, toddle, sway. From Old Norse titra, meaning shake, shiver. From titra to titter to teeter–an unsteady waver; indecision. The teeter-totter I shared with my sister had a curved half-moon base instead of a teeterboard placed upon a fulcrum. Neighborhood kids flocked to our yard. Neighborhood kids flocked to our yard. […]
Lazy Summer Days
To have a writing process, one needs to be writing. I kept up as well as I could during the pandemic lockdown amidst all the stress and added work of remote learning for my school-aged children. After the release of Anything That Happens, I shifted my writing energy to marketing. Now that I’m in the […]
