April 22, 2007

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    1  WARRIORS!!!!

    2  It’s a beautiful morning.

    3 That song It’s a Beautiful Morning just clicked on the radio.

    4  I gotta love it. We all gotta love it! Go man go.

    Moving on: Last week I flew a rickety plane through bad weather and a Junior Prom. I think we all made it through on a wing and a prayer, and that was a wink and a nudge when it all finally went down. In short, it was bravely successful.

    6  Ha.

    7  Indiana Jones.

    8  The Indiana Jones theme song  just came into my head, and cleared It’s a Beautiful Morning out. You know how that theme goes. Turn it up loud in your head. Indiana Jones.

    9  Why the Indiana Jones theme popped into my mind is anybody’s guess, but it’s the classic sort of heroic quest song.  I can completely envision Indiana Jones as he moves from peril to peril, almost getting killed but somehow always managing to survive a jeep going over a cliff, a band of terrorists in a dusty land, or a pit of poisonous hissing vipers. Like Jones, I feel I was left hanging onto a branch under a steep precipice on Saturday, and now I’m back to safety. But I just turned and see yet more dire adventures ahead.

    10  Something like that.

    11  That’s how the next few weeks look.

    12  Moving on, part II: I’m reading the Odyssey to my English class, and we’ve reached the part where Odysseus has returned from dreaded predictions in the Underworld, and has now been told by Circe that he is going to have to go through some terrifically horrifying adventures before he finally will arrive home, all alone.

    13  Heroic quests, man. Every week.  Every day. We all have ‘em. In a way, we’re all heroes, really. Heroic quests.

    14  I think all of us are on them in some way or another just going through our daily lives. We do things, move through our weeks with confidence and trepidation, sail through some areas on a breezy Tuesday afternoon, and then later meet fierce challenges on a stormy Wednesday.

    15  More often than not, we return bloodied, but unbowed.

    16  It happens to every one of us, and to me, we are all survivors, heroes in our own worlds. Because we all have that fight and spirit. And when it finally turns around, when we have pulled ourselvse up to the top of that precipice, we greet the world with fists clenched high, and a great big, “YES!”

    17  Some fun.

    18  Ah, Mondays. Not so bad, really. Especially when any Bay Area team kicks any Dallas team’s ass. Fists clenched high, and another great big “YES!”

    19   And remember: the whole idea of Monday is to fly safely under the radar, undetected.

    20  Truth be told, you should be envisioning the END of the day ALL day long, with the expectation of walking away unscathed, a HUGE smile brimming on your face as you leave your daily stuff behind and walk to your car.

    21  At some point, your life becomes your own, and I religiously attempt to do that as soon as possible on a Monday.

    22  When I do, once I’m in the TOONDRA driving away from the madness of that strange world behind me, I’m listening to Indiana Jones, clenching my fists, and shouting, ‘YES!”, oftentimes without the radio even playing.

    23  I hope that happens to you today, and that you get all your stuff that seems so important done fast, and under the radar. Trust me, whatever it is doesn’t mean squat in the scheme of things, unless it’s doing things for people you love.

    24  Well, time’s winged chariot has just appeared behind me in my rear view. I think I’ll stop now and see how swiftly I can take my own advice.

    25  Move swiftly and gracefully through today.

    26  Ha.

    27  Mondays.

    28  Peace.

    ~H~

                                                                        

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