Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It?

[lawnrrd]

We just returned from a cold, rainy Memorial Day weekend at the South Jersey shore. I kept everyone well fed, and the work kept me distracted enough to help fend off panic attacks.

Being surrounded by my wife's friends, many of whom share our background and many of whom have recently reproduced, made me acutely aware of the narrative I'm scrambling desperately to extricate myself from. To occupy myself on the long bus ride back, I continued to read the history book I picked up, which made me acutely aware of how durable that narrative has been. And then after we got home I went running through lower Manhattan, which made me acutely aware of the narrative I want to write myself into—no, to have my own chapter in.

Then on my way home I reminded myself that it's all the same narrative, and the main questions are where you show up in the Table of Contents and the Index.


P.S.: While running down Broadway I passed an black Cadillac Escalade at a light, but there were just two black guys inside.

Comments

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

Are you aware that I run in lower Manhattan?

[lawnrrd]

I was not aware of that, but it doesn't surprise me.

I rarely run in lower Manhattan, actually. I have a bad knee, so I shouldn't run at all. But I love running, so I let myself do it once a week, tops. When I do, it's usually on the treadmill, which seems kindler to me knee. But the gym was closed early today, so I ran down Broadway to City Hall and back.

When and where do you run? And how are you feeling, by the way?

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[eleanor.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's uptwon from where I live!

[lawnrrd]

It's all relative, I guess. A partner at the law firm where I used to work once declared, "As far as I'm concerned, the suburbs begin at 23rd Street."

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[eleanor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get nosebleeds when I go that far uptown.

[terrilyn.livejournal.com]

If you ever need a pep-talk or whatever... either grab me online or email me and I can call you after 9P my time.....

Sound good?

As we've discussed, on some things we're similar enough that the soundingboard can be a good thing.....

*snogs*

[lawnrrd]

I appreciate that. It's just the same old crap, basically. Life, love, sex, marriage, identity, family, procreation. You know, the ongoing existential crisis. It'll probably clear up on its own in forty years or so.

[bratbitch.livejournal.com]

I think whats the most important is if the narritive is in an active, rather than passive voice. Where things end up doesn't matter nearly so much in the end as what you learnt getting there..

but I'm still young and reasonably unburdened by the confines of someone elses plot.

[lawnrrd]

That comment was exactly right for Tuesday. I can't explain it because there's another person's privacy involved, so you'll just have to take my word for it. But you nailed it.

[bratbitch.livejournal.com]

no probs. Good to know I've gotten something right today :)