Samuel Longhorne Clemens once said, 'The rumors of my death have been mildly exaggerated.'
John Cusack in High Fidelity asked, 'Is it in fact better to burn out than fade away?'
**
I’d like to make note of the fact that this makes four ‘daily’ posts in succession. I’m not sure if anyone was worried, what with that shameful comment from ‘Fizzle’, who prefers to keep their identity cloaked in anonymity.
Borderline simmer reached full boil when my Godfather, clearly concerned, noted with a certain measure of delicacy the Daily Rice has not been up to par as of late. His voice, tender and almost strained, astutely stated, “You haven’t been blogging for shit lately.” My eyes filled with hot tears and I wanted so much to prove him wrong, to redeem my ambition.
Sometimes it’s hard to discern the difference between burning out and fading away. I’m not quite ready to walk down either of those roads just yet, since my adventurous education is still in full bloom, though some days it feels more like a brittle rose bush in a scathing winter.
In my mind, I’d like to think that one day the Daily Rice will most closely resemble not a flower in full bloom, nor a wilted pool of petals, but instead a rose pressed between the electronic pages of the blogger abyss, dry and broken to be certain, but still colored with the hue of nostalgia.
6 comments:
Here's to staying in business!! Go Michael!
There's a new show on bravo called top chef and it is truly amazing. I fall asleep to it every night that I can. I waved at becca through the windows of the den while she was talking to you. I hear you're bored and sort of lonely. Sorry for the circumstances, I've been there too, only when I was there I wasted a lot of time and did stuff I regret, or rather didn't do anything and now in retrospect I regret wasting it. (and by it, I mean time to myself.) It sounds like you're at least reading, so that's good and wholesome.
"The glove compartment
Is not accurately named,
And everybody knows it.
So I'm proposing,
A swift orderly change...."
Your heating up again Baby!!!!!!!
The problem isn't staying busy--In fact I'm too busy most of the time. My precious few hours alone at night are spent reading and learning the langauge. I've done so much in the past few months and have been through a lot, but I just need some time. Just give me time, as Damien Rice says.
I don't regret anything so far. It's a good experience, just hard. But anything that's worth anything is hard in some way. At least I hope that's right. It sounds right. I wonder if Moriah would agree...??
I Heart Jessie Taylor :)
Rice Town
awwwww. I heart the Rice's ;P
(i didn't mean to insinuate that you had nothing to do, I just meant that when you're alone and don't want to be, it stinks.)
Come home soon!
Wow! This is a really long lunch break. Let's get back to work!!
Post a Comment