to clock out early and collect.
Have a glass of wine and on day reflect.
Businesses need be built, but letting ideas stay in pause and simmer often proves surprisingly beneficial.
Done with essay. Short. Just over a thousand words. May add on something, but can’t now as I’m in need of rest. Bed. Have to be in gym at, well, just after 4. Having last glass, now. Some weird import something or another a friend gave me. Friend. Well, I guess. Anymore, wine is losing its hold on me. That’s my fault. Not wine’s. Wine has done nothing wrong. I’m not tending to all my projects. I’m an entrepreneur, much I hate that over-fucking-used word. I’m a diversified creative. There. I’m that.
Right now I’m in the kitchen with fridge humming, kids asleep, wife upstairs watching a show and resting, much deserved. And me still going. Waking AT 4. Will not sip a drop of this average brett-emboldened fold after 9. May just dump it out. What a day, I to self say. Meetings and meeting with reps and leads and talking more about products the company offers. Learning more about business than I ever thought I would. I don’t want to continue on that. Just note and know I’m a different business bloke and dote. New stokes and onus in my own code, sown.
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Writing freely, done with coffee on a lazy Sunday not at all lazy. Getting Starbucks for family then going to the jumpy house place up the street, then taking Jack to Epic Center, or Epicenter, and now home. Was about to take a nap, but no. Going through old pictures, a couple of them, and wanting to take more but not having any time to go out and shoot. I’m a writer, not a photog, but I do want to get out there at some point and take some vineyard shots or pictures of production. Something. A media company, maybe. Media and publishing. Using what I have.. family, the kids. Me. I have everything I need. And no more overthinking. None. Done.
Jack still over there watching Peter Pan. 2:46. Hungry a little. Found one picture that makes me think of my vineyard walks at Dutcher Crossing, or right before I’d go into work. Seems like another life. I move on. Not Sonic and learning from it to get me to where I want to be… which is with Sonic and with my company. Collaborating somehow.. telling their story, and imitating their ways, their discussions with communities, their focus on education internally and mentorship, goal-setting, life. Business and life balanced like it is in no other workplace. Anymore I think often I write about work. The concept and obligation and place of work in our lives. Why we do it, and why would we ever do something we hate for a living.
Waking early tomorrow. My word. I’m giving it here. Writing about the 4am hour, what it does to me and how I make work out of it, a business…. A life of waking early and wha life would be like if I just continued waking at 6-something. Which is a respectable hour, yes, but that’s when the house wakes— kids, wife, family. I’ll be up before, far before. Look at picture again, light and color. More of each in my pages…
The vineyard,
always speaking.
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Definitely noticing
an increase in overthought. Way to combat, work. Write. Just the act of action, actuation. That simple, really. Just made salad to go, now the pizza wait. 1 beer. Use time. Writing all time. Despicable, the waste of any time.
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A Cytological
A beer, and some quiet. After today, which wasn’t bad, or a blah-day, just odd, I need this. I need this time for ME. I need collection, thinking about what I was thinking about this morning. All that “thinking”, definitely overthought. Has to stop. Wasn’t going to take bag to work today but of course I did.
I literally can’t decide what to write about. I hate this feeling. Catch self…. Not liking reading ways, or writing, so I re-instruct the one now penning. What I just wrote in journal. And that’s another thing, no more ‘I’. Starting to loathe that letter and word. So, over again. Back to school. More education. Exploring language and how it’s on pages composed. That’s another thing, no more ‘me’ or ‘my’ or ‘mine’. Wanting these pages to be about readers, YOU right now reading if anyone’s reading. Taking writing away from author and with more consideration of reader, seeing now here in kitchen. Quiet, just jazz… Mr. Coltrane speaking in octaves perfect in pairing with this beer. Wine next, the Cab last night popped.
Free in the moment, in present education. Hoping to wake early and jump to gym for running on belt, but feeling’s though this could be a night for writing. A night for assembling new curriculum, new sights and ideas for education, ideas offered, building not so much a brand but a story, a new identity and if not one new then one re-written.
Knowing just what to write. Taking ‘I’ away. Not even so much about you, reader, all respect meant, sent. This page and all following about the idea itself. Thinking… decisions that turn your vehicle, that shift and shape your voyage and trek. In traveling from page to page, writing to writing, observations and rooms, new instruction and curriculum if you will, need to travel light intensifies. More than before in before-pages. Learning from today, to plan ahead and not pressure character if something doesn’t align with the envisioned. Life is a circle, then a triangle, then something of square-semblance, and after undefined. Present at this counter, going over day, from the morning meeting with T, to the drive to SF, to the hike south on 35th, to my meditation on 35th and Vicente, to the drive back battling traffic and seeing all those faces in the lane left and right, and in 6-facing mirror, wondering what their day said to them, where they’re going.
Taking focus away from he in this seat, and seeing all around me. My neighbors, the people with whom I work, Mom Dad, winemaking sister, this beer bottle, kids cups just behind this laptop, journal and pen.. scene, scenes, interpretations, days, weeks, year ending. Just remembered, a 30-day project or challenge still progressed. Day 19, just learned. What’s wanted? Hmmm…. Not sure. Read with more strength and excavating traits. Writing, same. In class. Only one. All this still, music, time to seat, self. Something repaired, cured. Now, new advance, or forward, instruction, induction… not-so-subtle deduction.
(11/7/18)
11/6/18
Coffey Park, Santa Rosa
Day’s end. Wine of course. A Cab I bought the other day at Bottle Barn, and feeling scattered, like not like a writer at all. This feeling more loathed by me than I think anything. Called in English 1A tonight, stuck in traffic on way back from city. Traffic of course in Novato, the “narrows”, and then on Stony Point in Rohnert Park/Santa Rosa, which was a bit of a shock. I cam home feeling deflated and defeated.
Waking tomorrow morning early. Not for gym, not to run like a weirdo on the treadmill for 9 miles or a bit more, less, or something around the 9 I always shoot for. But to write. And, honestly, not even to write. To be with ME. To have time for me, which IS what I hold and profess now on the floor of this Autumn Walk Studio, but perfecting my writing self. Tonight and tomorrow.
Anymore I’m finding these moods I get in quite funny. I’m laughing at myself. Like I said in class last night, that’s healthy. It’s certainly more healthy and elevating than the person unable to laugh at themselves from time to time. I refocus on the wine. AV Cab, one I’ve never had before. Honestly I’m not moved. I’m not taught. I’m not caught. I’m not anything after sipping it. Been a while since I’ve had a wine that’s contributed to my story, my character, my There, then.
Night ending, and I want blood… other writers to battle. Like Hemingway with gloves on, or off. It doesn’t matter. This sport, not a sport, but a profession, lifelong night-song lesson. Day teaching me about sentences, how they present on page, and the wine orders me to listen, with more careful cursor and fervor. Tomorrow morning, writing about 4am, what it does and how it feels, what I have to say in that hour— Have I made my coffee, yet?