When I am sick, like I am today, I sometimes have an interesting place I dwell.
Today has been awful. I had two meetings this morning that failed to achieve working even a podcast option. Yes, they do exist. Seeing how my day was going as bad as I felt, I made some phone calls and had the rest of my day free after lunch.
I take it upon myself to visit smaller businesses whenever I get a chance to help support them. There is a small, independent, bookstore, which I find a very nice place to dwell in on days like today. When I say dwell, I literally mean dwell
When I am sick and stressed out, nothing is going my way. I like to go this bookstore and stay there for hours, yes, hours. The first time I did it, they almost called the police on me. They thought I was scoping the place to rob it. As time went on I got to know the owner of the store, a nice fellow, and he understands my situation and told me I am welcome whenever it occurs. I have yet to tell you what I actually do at the store.
When I am using the bookstore as a place to dwell, as a temporary domicile, or even as middle earth, the adventure all begins. Okay, I know you are saying I sound like a fruitcake, but you are wrong. At the bookstore, I walk around and read the titles of books, just the titles. I walk up and down the book aisles visually grabbing the titles that interest me and write them down. When I feel I have enough book titles, I set down and start piecing them together in a workable order, from just what I think the titles mean and having nothing to do with the actual books. Piecing them together in a workable order, I get them to the point to where it starts making a story and when the story hits a stopping point, I gather more titles to lengthen the story...
This whole structure can take hours but it helps me keep my sanity on days like today. Or does it…
Hank Epstein
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