🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩
Rainbow 🎶
Data Issue📊
Lull😔
THE DAILY UPDATE
Three Things I’m Grateful For Today:
- My last hour-plus commute.
- Leftover Amazon boxes.
- Chinese food.
Pursuit of Wordle Godhood: Today’s result: Four. Appropriate word for my last day in-office working with the Catholics.
Wordle 1,054 4/6
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Pursuit of Connections Godhood: Today’s result: PERFECTO
Connections
Puzzle #332
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The song in my head when I woke up: “Rainbow,” by Kacey Musgraves, and not only was it in my head when I woke up, but I was singing it in a dream.
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: When it rains, it pours/But you didn’t even notice it ain’t rainin’ anymore/It’s hard to breathe when all you know is/The struggle of stayin’ above the risin’ water line
Commute Tunes: My last drive to the Catholics was done to my Grunge Unplugged playlist, specifically to the Alice in Chains Unplugged event from MTV.
- Nutshell
- Brother
- No Excuses
- Sludge Factory
- Down in a Hole
- Angry Chair
- Rooster
- Got Me Wrong
- Heaven Beside You
Something I’m looking forward to today: A chiropractor appointment to get an adjustment and hear about my MRI results.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: Boy The Elder’s college graduation is on Saturday!
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: Watching the movie Ordinary Angels with Wifey Poo
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved writing some LinkedIn posts for a Johnny Boy Marketing client whose book is being released next month.
What I’ve written: An Ugly Consequence When Abortion and Big Data Collide.
Today’s Stoic Though of the Day: “It is better to conquer grief than to deceive it.” — Seneca
John’s translation of Today’s STD: “You’re grieving. And that sucks. And you’re gonna hear people tell you to do things to distract yourself. And that’s cool. Except there is no way through grief except through it, and you can’t get through it by distracting yourself. Eventually, you’re gonna have to face it. And that, too, will suck. But you’ve got this. It’s OK to sit with your pain. Accept it. It’s a part of life.”
I’m in a creative lull. It’s about Day 3 of this, and it sucks. It’s not that I’m unfamiliar with these lulls. I’ve had them before. One lasted about two freaking years. I’m sure this one won’t last that long. But still, every time one of these hits, there’s a moment of panic in which I think, “What if I’ve lost it? What if I never have a creative thought again? What if all my writing from this point forward is uninspired slop?”
Of course, this presupposes that the things I’ve written previously aren’t uninspired slop, and I guess that’s not for me to decide. But I digress.
I am pretty sure I know what’s causing this. I’m tired. I’ve juggling a ton of things. I’ve got a ton of emotions locked inside me. About my son graduating. My son getting married. His brother nearing his learner’s permit. The inexorable passage of time that is leading me to the precipice of my fiftieth birthday.
So I imagine this will pass. But right now? It sucks.
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