Mosh Thoughts & Miracle Tweets

[Teresa]

Both my kids got ribbons for riding horses on Friday, the end of a joyful ninety-five degree week on the backs of "Shorty" and "Ginger", days of dirt and manure on boots, sweaty hair and priceless smiles.

 

My dad's recent letter said he'd love for us to come for a visit, me and the kids, but I haven't seen him since 1998, our dance awkward even then, and I'm trying to both imagine and assess the value of bridging such a compounded gap.

 

I just received Jonah Lehrer's book in the mail -- Imagine:  How Creativity Works -- and was struck by the sentence:  "Every creative journey begins with a problem."

 

I dreamed I fell in love with a young Chevy Chase night before last, maybe because I miss laughing, or maybe because I've always associated professional comics with emotional masking, or maybe because I want to return to the year Caddyshack was released and start over again.

 

I've decided that the best attitude to have sounds like Bob Hope's deathbed response when his wife asked where he wanted to be buried:  "Surprise me."

 

Augusten Burrough's new book -- This Is How -- advises that we follow "what is true, no matter where it leads you" -- this, after brilliantly pointing out how to overcome anything, then he points out that humans are 98% hydrogen and oxygen and carbon, like table sugar, with a few tiny differences enabling us to "stand upright and send tweets."

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cita]

Love this.  It is inspiring me to write a random (and yet not) 6.  A

[Bill Floyd]

Chevy's a mess, but I will always love that man.  "I was born to love you, I was born to lick your face/I was born to rub you, but you were born to rub me first."  Let's see a spoonful of table sugar come up with something that brilliant!

Nice puzzle-piece assembly of life's makeup here.  I like you in your constructing mode.

[Teresa]

@Gita ~ Chevy Chase was a shallow player in Caddyshack, though.  And I think the "problem" Lehrer refers to is everything from a blank page to cancer.  The book is about the leap from here to there, where creativity comes from, how the left and right brains work together.  The book tells the story of how Bob Dylon gave up on music at the peak of his career because it was never the fame he wanted.  So he walked away (actually rode away on a motorcycle) and something magical happened.  I'm reading Twyla Tharp's The Creative Habit as well and she's amazing.  I wish we were talking about all this over coffee right now...

[Gita]

In the Griswold movies, Chevy Chase is a gentle husband and father,  the opposite of the man you described in a recent post who always has the driving directions down. He's just lovable.

I think I disagree with the quote, "Every creative journey begins with a problem." There are days when I sit down to write flooded with purpose and the right words, effortlessly typing.  I like sentence one because it exudes happiness.

 

 

[Mike Handley]

Interesting that he specified "you and the kids." Love the Bob Hope line, and I share your passion for Augusten. But of all the male figures, Chevy Chase? I think your desire is more for comic relief?

[Stephen Torelli]

Positive thoughts from a positive soul.

[Angela]

Enjoyed your musings and will be interested to see if the visit plays out.

[Simon Halliday]

Very honest.

'... our dance awkward even then' — feels like its own meaning, in this context a great turn of words.

Brava.