Shadow Puppet Storyteller

I am enough

It is very easy to allow the blog to be empty once the updater shows the last time an entry was made is "one month ago." -- Except it's really a month plus a week. So because I find it inaccurate, I'm aware enough (or pissed enough) now to notice.

My media diet often influences whether my writing mechanism is well-oiled enough for an entry. Two different media had an impact. An article in the L.A. Times on a poet running a Poem Store at the Hollywood Farmers Market. That click in my head of, "Hey, I could do that," added to what I've gotten to see this week has finally nourished me enough. Rented Jack the Giant Slayer early in the week, got to attend a preview of the Steve Jobs biopic on Wednesday, and enjoyed the Jackie Robinson/Branch Rickey story, 42 just last night.

I think Jobs had the most impact. The next couple days I was paying more attention to areas in my life where I might be perceived as being stuck or even failing. I was questioning how involved in building my life I could improve, and creatively making plans. It provided a spark of hope gift wrapped in the depiction of an era which I easily remember being part.

I realize the emotional clamor of my prior blog entry, and actually being busy giving a workshop the last weekend in July are the culprits really. It not that bull talk in my head that I'm not a fast enough, productive enough writer. I am enough -- however my am shows up week to week. I don't shape shift or become a different species. I am me and I show up. 'Nuf said.