Hello my friends, I have been caught up in the U.S.’s social power struggle. Trump’s U.S. Capitol attack (likely induced by Putin), coming on the heels of the Georgia election that made Congress majority blue, is probably the most important U.S. political event of my life. Our democracy is under attack, by a puppet who acts in concordance with Putin’s wishes while lining his own pockets. We have been comparing it to JFK’s assassination and 9/11 (and others), but it seems to be in a class of its own.
An interesting read. I am a writer; even a published writer but I never made my living at it. Just the occasional Newspaper and Magazine article - sometimes paid with money, other times with copies.
Then there are the lengthy, self-referential essays that never got published, except perhaps online. My version of a journal entry. I don't do so much now, but have a body of work from the past when I was more active.
I wrote my autobiografy at 38 in 1982 and am now going thru my work history with more detail & just completed scanning a binder of my "Health Care Experiences" which is the closest I came to having a career in different roles (child care worker-psych tech-respite care specialist-group home manager-sheltered workshop supervisor-clinic assistant-massage therapist-certified nursing assistant) I just call it Right Livelihood in Human Services for decades starting in 1975. It was how I made a living and I found creative outlet in it.
You seem to be traveling a similar path, working for a living, (blue collar?) while being a creative person with the ability to teach others but without an "Official Teacher Certificate."
I've enjoyed your posts on LFAA and now wandered around to this post. I sometimes thought I would write something, so much of your musings sound somewhat familiar. Someone asked me if it would be fiction or nonfiction: I told him "fiction - no one would believe me if I told the truth.
Roland, it seems the goal posts always get moved as we scramble within range (like when Lucy swishes the football out of range when Charlie Brown is getting ready to kick it). The,-re-setting our goals when necessary was not part of my life plan, and I wonder if any of your characters have come up against this challenge, and what they do about it. Who moves the goal posts?
"I See You" (Are you familiar with the Navi?)
An interesting read. I am a writer; even a published writer but I never made my living at it. Just the occasional Newspaper and Magazine article - sometimes paid with money, other times with copies.
Then there are the lengthy, self-referential essays that never got published, except perhaps online. My version of a journal entry. I don't do so much now, but have a body of work from the past when I was more active.
I wrote my autobiografy at 38 in 1982 and am now going thru my work history with more detail & just completed scanning a binder of my "Health Care Experiences" which is the closest I came to having a career in different roles (child care worker-psych tech-respite care specialist-group home manager-sheltered workshop supervisor-clinic assistant-massage therapist-certified nursing assistant) I just call it Right Livelihood in Human Services for decades starting in 1975. It was how I made a living and I found creative outlet in it.
You seem to be traveling a similar path, working for a living, (blue collar?) while being a creative person with the ability to teach others but without an "Official Teacher Certificate."
Shades of Johnathan Livingston Seagull - flying to eat or eating to fly...
I've enjoyed your posts on LFAA and now wandered around to this post. I sometimes thought I would write something, so much of your musings sound somewhat familiar. Someone asked me if it would be fiction or nonfiction: I told him "fiction - no one would believe me if I told the truth.
Roland, it seems the goal posts always get moved as we scramble within range (like when Lucy swishes the football out of range when Charlie Brown is getting ready to kick it). The,-re-setting our goals when necessary was not part of my life plan, and I wonder if any of your characters have come up against this challenge, and what they do about it. Who moves the goal posts?