It has been a long time since I posted on this blog. Since
September 12th last year, to be precise. Since then, the President
has been reelected, the fiscal cliff has been avoided (in an ugly and
completely incomplete way) and we have turned the page on a New Year.
The Mayans were apparently mistaken (or simply ran out of
room on the tablet on which they were creating their calendar – that’s my
guess).
So far this year I have drafted what I intend to be a Letter
to the Editor regarding what I think our legislators should do about Social
Security reforms (short form: raise the cap on wages that are subject to FICA
taxes) and I’ve drafted a letter to my father that I plan to send via the good
ole’ US Mail tomorrow. That letter is an attempt to explain some things that
appeared in a published piece last summer that upset him and an attempt to
reset our relationship. We’ll see if it works.
It seems as if things in Washington are (predictably) a
mess, and so there’s not really all that much to say about that, although I do
applaud President Obama for nominating former Senator Chuck Hagel for the
Secretary of Defense. I think he’s a good man, and as a former soldier, someone
who understands what it means to send young men and women to war.
John Kerry is a shoe-in for Secretary of State, and I think
that is a good thing as well. I think he’s well prepared for the job, and if
both nominees are confirmed it will be the first time that we will have Vietnam
vets serving as Secretaries of State and Defense, which I think would be great!
On the home front, Gloria has returned to work at the Steve
Harvey show. I spent some time today negotiating about a re-edit that we need
to do for a corporate client’s video that we did late last year. And I am
continuing to look for work. And continuing to write. Or, at least draft.
It is early in 2013, too early to surmise what this year
might bring. Today I received a very nice, very empathetic rejection from a
University to whom I had applied for a job teaching Creative Non-Fiction
Writing. I’d prefer not to have been rejected, of course, but it was a nice
rejection email.
Earlier this year, just a couple of days ago, I received the
print copy of the inaugural edition of Penumbra
Magazine, in which my essay, Ramon,
appears, and if that’s not a nice happy start to a New Year, I don’t know what
is. So that’s good.
Whatever it is you are pursuing, my wish for you is this:
Pursue your dreams with passion, commitment, and drive. Never give up. Never
say no. Never say, “I can’t do this anymore.” Yes, you can. You can.
I write those words as much (perhaps more) for myself as I
do for you.
Namaste.
Brian
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