Mecca Redirect

 Sorry. Its time. I don't even know what direction I should face to face Mecca. I mean yeah, it might have been nice to, you know, know what WTF I'm writing about before I write about it but why? This all culminates not from me mind you, but from yous. And besides, we have all manner of experts that disagree and that leaves us to choose whatever the heck we want. Thats the way it should be too. Only with better platforms one day maybe. Apple and to a lesser extent Android suck.

Twatter

 Twatter is what I sometimes call @twitter because it seems to be a requirement of employment there from the CEO on down to be a twat. 

My account has been permanently suspended and this could have been attributable to a  manifold of complaints by the more liberal twatters that you run into there. I think it stemmed from something likely midweek because it was only after careful consideration that they suspended my account. 

Whatever happened I just wanted to say thanks. It's a godawful time sink.

I'll do it live, I'LL DO IT LIVE!

 Testing, hoohaa. How's that for cornball?

Geez, there is a half inch of dust over everything here at thepoemster blog. I've managed to go the whole summer without posting anything and now the leaves are turning the lemon yellows and orange oranges remeniscent of a bowl of Trix cereal. It's been rather warm for this time of year in VT and I've been working my tail off playing catch up and not fully able to enjoy all the state has to offer in the way of recreation. Although I did manage to paddle around the lake a few times in a canoe that some nice clients thought enough of me and my work to give to me since they had no use for it. I'd have liked to use it more often but I'm trying hard to build up my business by accomplishing as much work as possible. By doing more jobs the word of mouth can kick in and hopefully establish me as the first best choice for any and all remodeling needs. I've met some nice people and have had largely enjoyable business deaings with all of them. All of the work I'm happy to say has exceeded the expectations of the clients and everyone paid me in full except for one woman whom I did a stone fireplace for. She gave me more than I billed her for and wrote in note that "I was a true artist". The money is always nice but appreciation can go along way to making life and the working world more enjoyable.

I'm all by myself since my wife and kids left to visit in CT for a few days. It was a warm, sunny day and I spent it cleaning up my barn, making trips to the dump and generally organizing things to make life easier in my working world. It’s quiet without my little ones around and whereas it’s nice to catch my breath I miss them just the same. I would never have been able to get as much accomplished had they been around though.

The trees here are just beginning to bud and it won’t be long before they start producing the leaves that put the green in the Green Mountain State. I drove over to Keene, NH. to go to the bookstore and to pick up sundries for the coming week. They were having a sale on classical music and although I don’t really listen to classical much I did want to get something from Sergei Rachmaninoff. I bought two cds and I am listening to Adagio Sostenuto right now as I type this. It’s such a beautiful melody and it suits my mood at the moment perfectly. It’s funny, Eric Carmen wrote lyrics for this piece originally composed by Rachmaninoff and I believe it went to number one many years ago. Adagio Sostenuto was the original music although you may have heard it called… “All By Myself”.

I heard it is National Poetry Month in the US and so I will need to step up to the plate before the month is out. Must be because it's also my birthday month. There is also a new Poet Laureat in the US and whereas I have forgotten his name I know it's not me. How could it be? I haven't touched a poem in a long time. But it's been on my mind though. It pays $35,000.00 a year and you get an expense account of, I think, $5000.00. That'd be okay as long as it's part time and I can continue to work. Otherwise I'd not be interested unless I could weasel out some kind of graft or similar type of corruption that would help it pay better. I'll work on it and start boning up on my poeming in the meantime.

Ted Kooser, the poet laureate of the US was a guest on a radio show that I listened to last week and said, “all art is learned through emulation". I would guess that is largely true. Largely.

I’ve finished listening to the following audiotapes:

The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
The Scout by Harry Combs

By listening to the audio books I pick up pointers as to the different styles, writers and narrators both, use to tell a story. When they are one and the same, it's special.The down side in listening is that I don't learn proper punctuation. I’ll put that on my “to do” list but there are things on this list undone that date back to the early seventies, maybe even earlier.

I also heard during a different show that same day that “the analogy was dead". I stood there for a moment,turned my head a little and with my mouth slightly agape mouthed in silence those very words and then punctuated with a Bronx cheer, proper or not.

This desire I have to learn to write has been propagated by my wish to emulate the musicians,artists and the writers who have influenced me with the power of the written word. It's part and parcel of the person I am today. Writing well is not easy but since failure is not a pressing issue for me and whereas failing to try is, I am opting to try.

So, I am an apprentice again and that suits me real well because this time I am in control of both aspects of the training. The Cosmos and Poemster blogs are places where I can play and be creative. As I reach equilibrium, little downside I find. Your feedback has been kind and I thank you. It really helps. I’ve taken to referring to what I do as “righting” instead of writing because of the cathartic effect it has had for me. My being a “hands on” and do-it-yourself type may finally pay dividends and I'm not referring to money. I believe that “trickle down” is best employed when it applies to people and the goodness they hold within.

I know that a strong point of mine is not organization and writing has helped me examine and lend order to some of the experiences I have had along the way. I know now that my life has been and continues to be a series of short excursions rather than one long journey. A long journey can be a tedious affair and my life does not remotely resemble hardship of any kind.

And my latest trek, this one right here, has just gotten underway.