High Winds Inhibit Me

High Winds Inhibit Me

I’ve had my day and now must move aside and let others experience the holidays and December activities and then of course 2016 and the New Year’s Celebration.  Spending a week or two contemplating a certain relaxation response, without going into the impulse of spending.  Commercialism and the American Way that tends towards making all of us a full fledged consumer.  Consumer of the Arts.  Like my Van-go and tooling around the city looking at decorated yards, with lights that could consume power better used elsewhere, but then again, want to be in a giving mood, and give the benefit of the doubt to most things material and inspired by the selfish gene.

Think of others and not of the self, and yes that seems to be appropriate this time of year.  So I did light candles and thought of those more and less fortunate than myself.  Decided that we are blessed if we have electricity and an internet connection and the devices that make all this a superb communication hub.  So we get together, mostly with words, but now that the camera phone is central to most of us, the graphics add to the mix, and color our world.

 

Originally I had thought to write about how through the course of a year, that the majority of those 365 days are filled with challenge.   Try not to think about the severity of things, and how we create a lot of the difficulty we face.  Decide to leave that to the professionals to right the course of a river overflowing its banks and having boundary problems.  Human and we all have problems.  Stylize and simplify and realized many years ago I could not contribute in blog format each and every day, if the conversation was only about me.

 

Worked the puzzle and decided that there must be universal topics we could share, and leap over the facts of our individual existence and individual localities.  Along with that I added pictures, in the event my words were misunderstood, as I did see Bill Murray’s presentation in Lost in Translation , and that did influence me.

How to remove myself from center stage and yet still be interesting enough for others to relate with me, and come back.  Mee  Mee Mee was not the style I chose.  At the same time I could only be factual and personal to a certain degree.  Too much and I would spend most of my time saying, “No I am not available.”   “No, coming to spend a week with me at my place is not an option.”  So I added entertainment to my routine.  If it amused me, I thought it might also add a smile to your day.  And so for many years I followed this style of blogging.  Personalized to the degree that total strangers could relate.  But then, something changed.

Can’t wrap my head around it.  Has something to do with social media and facebook and meeting people using the web to get your name and image and brand out where you could connect.  Not sure which convergent zone surrounded me and my old ways.  Before I realized it, writing was a way for others to identify a personality they wanted to connect with.  And before we know it,  the practice becomes intrusive.  “Let’s meet.”  And there I was, caught in the middle.  Hate to say, “ No.”  Dislike creating walls and boundaries, and to have to say I learned the hard way the limitations of meeting the people in person that comment and say,

 “ Personalize this.”

 

As is my routine, I woke up this morning and read the banners on google news.  Staring me in the face was something about a Vertical Landing and how something like this had never been done before.  That got my attention and wanted to title this blog, Vertical Landing, and then go on to talk about how difficulties throughout a normal year, tend to turn our world inside out.  Meaning, difficulties are experienced by us, and then some turnout to have a happy ending.  The ones that continue to be difficult and have negative impact on us, seem to get less and less face-time.  Meaning, we like a good story and fantasy serves a purpose when we just can’t change things and it is bad.

 

So here I am, wanting to write about such things without being morbid, as this is the holiday season and we want all to be joyful and fun.  Entertain me.  Surprise me.  Wrap my world in colorful lights and paper and put a bow on it.  That’s what we want.  So Vertical Landing would not be so much about bring a first stage booster rocket back to earth for a recycle experience, but rather about experiencing things and good or bad, landing on our feet and moving on.  With laughter and delight in the presence of others.  Doing the happy dance.  Near the Christmas Tree and under the mistletoe I find myself with like-minded people out for a good time.

 

High Winds Inhibit Me  is a phrase I attributed to Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who did the first transatlantic flight back in the day when it was still an extra-ordinary thing to do.  Then came the hero stage and after the kidnapping and death of a family member.  After things happen and you no longer can be in public without revealing personal history and the humanistic things that happen, where do you go, what do you do and most importantly, what is to be said when you give the world your true self and then find yourself violated.

 

To avoid a long conversation about such things, you learn the hard way to be out there, and yet at the same time use simple phrases to change the subject.  So saying, “High winds inhibit me.”  And since that happened I can’t really be the person you thought me to be.  How do you deal with delivering a message like that, with overstepping the boundaries of the platform you happen to be on?

 

Am sure that most have learned how to avoid things like this.  Not me.  I am an innocent.  I write.  I post.  I let a little time settle in around us, and then I do it over and over again.  Write .   Post.  And land on my feet.  Experience a vertical landing to some degree.  Upright and cheerful.  Saying all the right things.  Well probably not, and this is known if you have been following my blogs since 2006 or there-a-bouts.  But now going into 2016 I am looking for a proper way to keep my distance, but at the same time put myself out there for public consumption.  And at the same time stay out of harm’s way.  Still working on the proper delivery system for a package as complicated as this.  Tis the end of the year.  Say, “Happy Holidays All.”

 

And skip around the factual stuff.  Come back in 2016 and work the problem.  Which happens to be:   High Winds Inhibit Me.  And I must be careful in passage from the public to the private and back.  Vertical Landing and a safe platform is what I seek , while at the same time including others.  Including you is part of the stage I want to make wonderful and grand, without of course adding to the chaos that comes with mass consumption and people focused on wine, women and dance, and things like that. New Year’s Party and celebration.   So here I am promoting all of us having a good time, and yet keeping a safe distance at the same time.  Wonder how we do it, when things get personal.  Is my puzzle for today.   Cheers.