12/3/18
So this morning my devilish laptop decides to work. Part of me incensed and the other joyous. I’ll take the joyous. Going to take it in, anyhow. Then to bank, then, by THEN, I should be run-ready. Not sure where I am in the marathon countdown, but I’m sure close enough to frighten me or at least get me a bit edgy. Jazz on, music the whole way here from Starbucks, getting a 4-shot mocha (that kind of morrow) and blueberry scone which they were slow to give me and when I brought it up to the ponytailed barista after she asked me a bit drained and feigned what my name was and what I was waiting for, was told there are a lot of food items that were ordered and had to be heated. “That’s why.” She made a point to say. I nodded. When the scone was handed to me, unheated. I left, not so much laughing on my way back to the over-mileage’d Prius but thinking I need intensify what I’m putting into this day, this Monday. Music, much of what I do and how I see things. “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”, a track featuring Coltrane and shoving me this way, then that, and I’m present, very much present at this counter, 08:50. Should get going to the laptop repair joint. So if he, Phil, nice guy whom I always seek when it comes to fixing this goddamn thing for whatever reason, takes the monster from me, how will I type? Oh… use the office computer as I did yester’. Sometimes when life changes the Road’s contour, you have to follow and drive as it instructs, implementing your own creative code and composition while along.
Bite of scone. Tempted to heat it, but why. Surprised the laptop cooperates this morning. Last night Jackie grabbing my phone and pushing the blog shortcut on the home screen, trying to read what he could, saying “Daddy you’re a really good writer.” How he sees me. Intensify, amplify, self-codify in this blogger way and practice, habit, maintains the habit and practice, my Craft each morning. Day young, crumbling scone, mocha not losing a significant level of its temperature level.
Yesterday wine tasting on Olivet Road, looking at the vineyards and in the tasting room tasting through what I did, wine speaking to me. Take a closer more analytical lean and approach, approach then lean to life and the wines in front of you that ONLY speak life’s language. Thought in what’s present, what’s caught, what is not what’s not.
I’m writing for my life, just before 40. I’m going into 40 with more thought than I ever have, certainly more urgency but more command of Day, this day and the ones in succession. Wine has always done that, even when I had no idea what the hell I was sipping in my San Ramon apartment. Just buying that Merlot, 2000 from Blackstone, California AVA tag, and feeling something. Not a buzz. In fact that first night with the friend over I think I only had a glass and a half, if I remember right. IT was the form of the wine, the voices inside, the music. It was all music. I wasn’t into jazz then as I am now, but there was immediate jazz in the introduction to the light Bordeaux’s vocals.
Scone nearly gone and continues to crumble to that little paper bag they put it. I’m not a breakfast bloke. At all. But this morning it just sounded good. I’m operating madly today, on whim more than pragmatics or forecasting, any prediction or plan for the day. I’m more mad in this paragraph stray, wanting adventure of some latitude in this way, day. This day, mine, in all its chords and chimes. Telling Self this is my only job. Writing. Capturing where I am and what I’m doing, here in kitchen with a finally-quiet house, writing daddy enjoying his caffeine and dreams. Models presented in head, of our next house, runs on coast, flight to Germany or Austria to taste wines and write about the towns I visit. How to do…. There is no “how to”. There’s just the DO. As I see it now, this morning. I’m quiet frankly tired of dreaming and thinking, envisioning, seeing, painting some illustration or convenient scene in cognition. Now, actuation’s my only deliberation. And I don’t deliberate excessively. I’m moving, moving is the opiate. Should go soon, to Phil, find out why this goddamn device keeps giving me that keyboard warning, or stall, saying it can’t find a keyboard through the bluetooth function but there’s a fucking keyboard RIGHT HERE. Attached to the bloody device. Can’t you see that, monster? Feel like yelling that here in the ditch but what would that do.
Wife texts me “Hi”. Should reply. But I can’t stop typing. Feels more than good. Writing for me isn’t writing, it’s not fucking “therapy” as some say, and I hate when people just pin writing as a therapeutic act, like that’s all it is…. It’s something, something. I don’t know what. Wine again speaking to me… those DeLoach Pinots, and the two Chardonnays. I need to travel, I need write about, out, everywhere to understand wine and Self, this, life, why I’m here and where and what the writer’s meant to do with where he is.
New track. JM’s Dream Doll by Mal Waldron. Moody, slow, atmospheric and curiously haunting. I’m in its notes and in line with the track’s progression. I need produce a track a day, I said to myself while on San Miguel. Will record when this note’s done. Is it done, now? Maybe this is the track, my track for the morning and the day, Monday, the week and for whatever I need. Taking a break from the mocha as this writer already feels its gnarl and snarl. Slowing with the sips. Where’s my copy of Road? Wanted to re-read it, on my own onus and timeline. Just me on my Road, what I observe in Kerouac’s work and others. Make time for reading today, I order Self. Done. Decreed. Now, I for errands flee.