Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.
So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.
I wonder - did that jar of Shillings sometimes just seem a little lighter than expected? You thought those paws could not in fact reach into it along with wallet and purse and umm, appropriate some small tax for tolerating the existence of humans in his domain? "Pffft"
Mine wouldn't last a day out in the wild. She loves her heating pad and eating plastic, is afraid of her own shadow, and must be on my lap at all times.
I think it’s mainly true that, whatever you think of to write, someone will have written it first. Yesterday I had an idea for a short story - nothing brilliant but enough to write a very short piece on. So I scribbled it down quickly and then reflected on how many times the end of the world has been written about.
Just about everyone’s had a go at it. And, if you write about it one way, you can bet Bob Dylan wrote it from a very different perspective. In a song called Talkin’ World War III Blues, he says this:
Well, time passed and now it seems
Everybody's having them dreams
Everybody sees themselves walkin' around with no one else
Half of the people can be part right all of the time
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all of the people can't be all right all of the time
I think Abraham Lincoln said that
I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours
I said that.
I wrote from Bob’s point of view. And yeah, he did it much better than I did.
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