{"id":719,"date":"2007-06-04T23:56:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T03:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/06\/04\/various-sundry-part-fifty-four\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T21:24:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T01:24:56","slug":"various-sundry-part-fifty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/719","title":{"rendered":"Various & Sundry, part fifty-four"},"content":{"rendered":"

— 7:30 am, meet cycling pals for an early 30-miler with Scott Joplin\u2019s Pineapple Rag in my head; 10 am, have eggs for breakfast and read the Band Festival tabloid with a feature about my poster art; 11 am, worship with Marty at the Salvation Army and hear my friend Zach preach; 12:30 pm, tear up old blacktop with Marty and empty first Ned-load of driveway debris; 2:30 pm, eat Dana\u2019s turkey panini lunch on the front porch with Marty; 3 pm, tear up old blacktop with Marty and empty second Ned-load of driveway debris; 5 pm, go to Marty\u2019s place to shower and play video games, 7 pm, watch \u201cScarface\u201d and enjoy a lasagna dinner with Marty and Terie; 9:30 pm, head home to check email and read a bit before bed… If all my remaining Sundays were like this, I believe I could, to use a phrase attributed to the Marquis de Lafayette, \u201cdie \u2019appy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

— Seth had his graduation celebration at Greystone on Saturday and it \u201cmarks the end of an era,\u201d according to James. Mombo made an appearance, to everyone\u2019s enormous satisfaction. Mike R brought his mom down from Ohio for the event, and he said he wants to commission a house portrait from me. Kyle D was there, and Seth passed the torch to a new student leader for the Red Kettle campaign in Liberty. Kyle said Captain Zach reported a $1700 total from our effort last season. We discussed ways to boost that in 2007. I got a bit of inside news about the new girls\u2019 b-ball coach at Boyle. Cliff teased me about my Band Festival pin, but got my commitment to bring him a poster. Does that mean I get a new t-shirt in trade? When it was time to kick back with a beer, I had a good talk with Nic, and he shared a vision of married life in the Valley, and how he\u2019s sure he can resist the professional pressures to value income over becoming a family man. I hope he\u2019s right! Afterwards we stopped at the Hall and spent more time with Mombo, plus I had a chance to grumble to Joan about how the TV networks had squandered a massive line-up of talent over the past months (Haggis, Liotta, Madsen, Diggs, Daly, Hutton, Delany, Sorkin, Busfield, Goldblum, Stowe, Minear, Fillion\u2014I can\u2019t go on!).<\/p>\n

— Seeing Jeannette at Greystone reminded me of last Friday at Rotary Club, when I was asked to \u201cunveil\u201d my poster art and make remarks. I did something I don’t remember having ever done so explicitly, and that was pay tribute to the divine source of all creativity. I wasn’t sure it had been the proper thing to do in that context, until Jeannette told me how much she was touched by it. That, combined with seeing two similar but different kinds of youthful self-assurance in both Seth and Nic, makes me realize I need to trust my instincts more, even though I might think I\u2019ve made progress in that area. Drop the reticence and push it further. There\u2019s no other way. The previous day I\u2019d successfully shrugged off the inner wimp to address the Governor in public when he visited Centre for the \u201cGet Healthy Kentucky\u201d initiative. My comments met with applause. Come on, what is there to lose except self-doubt? <\/p>\n

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