Because along with all of that automatic stuff there is a
whole lot going on that you know about but you just don’t think about cause its
automatic which means that you don’t have to think about it and that’s why it’s
automatic.
Like turning a corner…
There is a lot of brain power involved in doing that one
simple thing. How come you went that way instead of this? And how come you
crossed the street at that point and not at the crosswalk where you are
supposed to on account of giving the guys in those great big heavy hard to stop
cars a bit of a warning instead of just stepping out off the curb and going
willy-nilly across the street any which way you want making them lean down on
the brake and pull back on the steering wheel and praying that they can stop
before you run their insurance rates sky high.
So what does all of this have to do with art and why am I
boring you with this instead of telling you about some important art event on
the South Coast
and why have you bothered to read this blog if all it is going to talk about is
walking, talking and thinking?
Because I haven’t been doing a lot of thinking for the last
eighteen months or so.
When you find out that you have an illness that needs
ongoing treatment and it will make you go places you don’t want to go and do
things that you don’t want to do, (No that is not like taking out the trash or
putting the can out on the road on trash day), it sucks up all of the extra
brain power that you might have had free to think about art.
Just keeping up with the blog on a semi-regular basis has
been challenging. I have posted as often as I could between appointments at the
Croakers and I have sought out and posted art events which many of you have
kindly passed along to me but I haven’t really put my nose to the grindstone for
the last six months.
All of which means that I have lost my moxie when it comes to the
blog and I have to get back in the groove and hit it every day so that I can
get my moxie back cause being without your moxie, which is a soft drink
peculiar to Washington state and Maine but also a slang term for smarts and cunning
which is the moxie I am talking about is a very bad thing, that refers back to
the part about being without your moxie just in case you got lost in the
sentence structure which Mrs. Kaidenhead swore I never really understood and
then my Freshman English instructor said that everyone had learned how to write
a simple English sentence except the Ole Trawler so you could have gotten lost
seeing as how the subject was so far remove from the predicate but the whole
point is it is a bad thing to be without your moxie.
Now I plan to get back into the grove and get my moxie back
but it may take a while so bear with me. I was shocked when I looked at the
calendar and saw that it didn’t have any appointments with the Quack scheduled
and you can see how that might throw off a guy who has been bouncing back and
forth between the Quack and the Croaker for the last eight or nine months,
twice a week and extra on Sundays.
And the reason is that on my last visit Dr. Ross in concurrence
with Dr. Goenenne said that the problem was completely resolved which is doctor
speak for done.
So you can see how that might throw me off my game cause with
all the free time not having to visit the Croaker or the Quack I was a bit
lost. Now there is good news on the horizon, I have dentist appointments to
ease my way back into “Real Life” so I can count on that for a little break
from all of this troublesome free time, but it won’t last forever.
And that means I will have to divert some of that idle brain
power away from walking down the street and back to writing the blog.
It may actually take a few weeks to get my moxie back but if
you have lasted with me this long, what’s a few more weeks?
Now on to the important part and it could be fun cause I
have a special favor to ask you that will be fun for you cause it always was
for me back before I became sickly and old and the Quack said I couldn’t do it
any more on account of being a Diabetic and it being really not at all a good
idea for Diabetics to drinks so I’m asking you to take up the slack and get in
there and drink your share and mine when Seven Devil’s brewery opens its doors!
I think taking the time to master all of the intricacies of
learning how, getting the equipment, find the right receipt and getting funding
and then trying to encourage the public, that’s you, to do something they are
dead set against like having fun and drinking beer is a terribly brave and
artsy thing to do.
So prove to me that you have the community spirit and the
will to support the Arts in Coos County and bring you bottles and buckets and
troughs and bladders down to Seven Devils brewery and form a long line so that
the owners, those brave and artsy folks don’t have to give up their beer making
and go find a real job!
It’s a hard thing to ask but I’m betting that the arts
community of Coos County
can belly up to the bar with the bets of them. Remember you’re drinking for the
Ole Trawler too so make it a pint/glass of Seven Devils finest!
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