City of Legends

Not the best of days, as my mind seems to be focused on the half-empty aspects of life today (must be this bloody headache).

I have fallen desperately in love with someone willing to shout their love from the top of the world’s highest mountains, put out an excellent book and am about to put out a CD, and my primary website has undergone a transformation. Pluses.

The aforementioned love, you also edited, wrote the foreword to and served as cover model for the book seems to have taken a powder. The CD has been an arduous task in times of a broken heart and failing health and I can’t easily maintain my website as I am not familiar yet with the technology (WordPress) the aforementioned lady converted me to. Minuses.

But, I am alive, writing, thinking and feeling. I have met some of the most extraordinary people I have ever known in this life in the last few months (it seems when I implode, the world follows) and have written some of my best works ever in that same timeframe. I am limping, but triumphant. Or is that triumphant, but limping? Depends on your worldview.

In any case, so far, life is okay. Far from perfect, but what would I have to write about then?

My boys had a nice birthday yesterday. We capped the evening by going to an iMax showing of The Dark Knight at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center. Impressive. Not sure I would review it as the be-all, end-all of cinema, as some seem intent on doing, but it is a good popcorn movie with some excellent, deep and even troubling performances. Yes, Heath Ledger pulls off an amazing transformation. Academy Award? Probably, but at least a bit of that vote will flow from those who wish to recognize the fact that he will not get a chance to build on his performance.

Elric and Dante both got the video games they craved. Their sister came in to see them and they are all taking a vacation to Virginia Beach. I will have some dark times in my solitude, dark times that will serve as the coffee filter of my soul to help me write and compose.

The TVC2008 submissions are closed. The CD engineering is done. I have had to cut back my public appearances, thanks to health issues, but will still make some major appearances.

So far, so good.