2016
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En route to an enjoyable daytime gig this morning on Market Street, I ran into an old acquaintance I met while working on and off again at TNDC (Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation); he is a manager there, a hard-working little guy who always manages to blush every time we run into each other. We shook hands and, again, shared a lovely conversation of people we both knew at TNDC before we finally wished each other happy holidays and sauntered our separate ways. As I continued down Market Street past the Cable Car Turnaround and Nordstrom's across the street I started thinking about recurrences and just exactly what is fate. Fate, being a noun, is the development of events beyond a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power “fate decided his course for him..” Examples of FATE
Even what we would normally call “chance” or “fate”, I suppose, is always under God’s control more than our own; although, we are given free will. “The lot is cast into the lap, / but its every decision is from the LORD” (Proverbs 16:33). In other words, God does not take a “hands-off” approach to running the world.
Everything that happens is made to work out according to God’s purpose. Writing is a practice every writer needs to pursue every day, including weekends. It should be a priority over anything else even when one doesn’t want to write he or she should write anyway. One line. Two lines. After a hangover or a long night partying and/or having sumptuous sex with that person you should not have brought home after last call. Write. Don’t worry about how it reads. Write prior to attending your day job or afterwards. Write something, anything. Write a fun draft about the way he moaned in your bed last night against “your” flesh and you called him boy because you couldn't remember if his name was Rafael or Jose. It is extremely difficult getting back into the habit of writing every day when one have not written one paragraph in a long time. I am far behind in my writing. Of course, I think about writing—fiction—every moment even when I am not writing and, instead, taking pictures. Photo taking is yet another way to procrastinate and not write . . . but the habit is also calming and acts more or less like a therapeutic massage.
I’m considering disabling the camera feature on my cellphone altogether or not use it to decrease the habit and, yes, ending FACEBOOK, which can be very addicting, might help as well. We’re see where that goes. |
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