Have you seen these children? Refugees from Burrows Elementary, Quantico, and the 1980’s…

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Got to stand up
Get up
Move around
And forget
What’s left
I’m right
To let
All the things
That I get
Upset
About just fall
Away
Today I lay
Down
In pity
So shitty
Oh well.

I’ve never been much of a blogger. I do too much writing for work as it is, and I’m also not terribly keen on the confessional nature of the interweb.

Still, I suppose there is a useful function to keeping some sort of a journal - or at least a personal online presence that’s not solely work-related. I’m still on the fence as to whether I’m going to make friends and family aware of this little corner of cyberspace… If any of you happen to be reading this, then the answer to that bit of uncertainty is “Yes, I decided to let some select friends and family know.”

2007 was a bit of a wash in terms of entries - other than the occasional bit of odd creative writing and some photos. We’ll have to see what 2008 holds.

Here now, though, is a photo to ring in the new year…

I sit here typing tapping upon the keys that lay before me on this dark and decidedly unstormy morn mourning that the dawn has dawned upon me and I see that I have not been able to get to sleep when asleep is what I should have been.

I also tend to wonder as I wander through the net and cast my thoughts on niggling things that needlessly lead me towards night-sapping shallows of the deepest nonsensical thought.

And then I worry why my typing tapping at this time of narrow night always seems to downright wrong in its endless play with words and construction.

Sad thing is, I have no excuses for it… no liquor, drugs, insanity or  brilliance. It is merely a mind that finds itself facing another dawn after another day, attached to fingers that type tap towards the cliff of consciousness.

To describe the 24th of November as a day just like any other is to rob history of a most momentous date - not to mention belittle the significance of every other day leading up to it, and every day that followed.

At a most cursory glance, one can forgive the perception that this frosty late-November day was just like any other in the relatively young life of Myron T. Criswell. The alarm on his nightstand awoke him not once, but four times - the last proving to be the one that stuck, as Myron clambered out of bed, eyes half-stuck and mouth full of paste, and made a beeline directly to the bathroom, accompanied by the urgent “Breakfast!” calls of his mother.

Relieved, washed, brushed, combed, and clothed, Myron proceeded downstairs. So routine was his routine, so mechanical in its familiarity, that you’d almost forgive him for missing the intense hatred that burned in the eyes of his cat, Mr. Whiskers, who stood gazing upon the clueless teen’s frenetic form as Myron made his way down the hall and towards the kitchen, walking right past the seemingly unassuming feline.

You’d almost forgive him for such a monumental oversight.

Almost.

Unfortunately for Myron, it was the first of many unintentional actions that would change his life - and the universe - forever…

And it all happened on a day just like any other.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Long-eared Larry, the leaping lepus, leapt from log to log along the length of Livermore Lake. Though a learned lad amongst his lepus clan, Larry longed to learn how to make lofty longings more literal, looking to laboring less on locating longshot love, and ensure that labor’s not lost on lesser leaps.

Barry Boffin often thought of things you often think
are the things that others think about whenever they should think
of things that are thought to be the things that others think
when thinking of the certain things that everybody thinks
are very seldom in the minds whenever one should think
of every single little thing that you would ever think
would cross the mind of someone who sits alone and thinks
and contemplates the many thoughts that everyone who thinks
of thoughts about the foolish things that crowd a mind that thinks
and wonders if those things to think are keeping him from sleep.

“Myron” was his mother’s idea.

A loving mother in all other regards she surely was, but when it came to the naming of poor Myron, she inflicted a curse of a thousand schoolyard cuts and a dim future in bookkeeping, accountancy, insurance, or possibly even the exciting world of library science (far be it from me to ever denigrate the positive aspects of a career in library science, but for poor Myron, it was a nightmare scenario matched only by the thought of living with a name like Myron, a curse which he already bore).

A slight lad of shallow chest, weak eyesight, and the knobbiest of knees, he was an ambulatory example of the word “akimbo.” Not even significant enough a presence to be the object of his peers’ jokes, Myron made little impression upon anyone who crossed his path - encounters that generally passed without young Myron’s notice, as his nose (and the rest of his face) was generally planted firmly within the pages of a book. These books could be on topics ranging from Physics to Poe, Philosophy to Spider-Man - it mattered not to Myron, who devoured them all with equal enthusiasm.

Still, being a wraithlike presence in the world of baseball and soccer and school dances gnawed at Myron and his desire to belong - a desire shared by all children the world over, especially the ones saddled with a name like Myron by mothers who claimed to love them.

What Myron could not imagine, though, was that FATE had a far different plan in store for young Myron T. Criswell, which did not have anything to do with insurance, or accountancy, or even library science. Myron was duly slated to become something far more than that, and it all started the day an alien killed his cat.

To Be Continued ?????