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Connections

Over the last three days I:

1. I wrote an article for a magazine, which is considering publishing it

then

2. Went for a walk in Burnham Beeches with the kids while Wife was busy

where I

3. Met a nice lady just back from Tibet (she mentioned it, I didn’t say anything, I swear!)

so I

4. Decided I should be nicer to strangers

and on the way to work the next day

5. Saw a woman who dropped a twenty pound note and walked away while it blew down the road

so I

6. Walked after it, chased her and gave her the money

she looked for a second, then said thanks, so I

7. I smiled and I said “Have a really good day.”

which would have seemed insincere but when someone give you twenty quid and says something, they probably mean it.

I also put up a shed in the rain, but there’s no connection there.

But “Have a really good day“??? I never say that.

I think I’m beginning to talk and act like everything is a blog entry. Can any other long-time bloggers confirm this? It seems to sit ok, though.

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7 Responses to “Connections”

  1. Mike Says:
    May 23rd, 2006 at 11:04 am

    Ha ha ha - more like everything that happens you think, “Hmm, how would I write that up in my blog?”

    Keep thinking it and keep writing it as I love reading it

  2. riviera writer Says:
    May 23rd, 2006 at 11:44 am

    Not a long-time blogger but - yes, blogs imitate life. Especially difficult when you and wife see something together and each thinks, ‘That’s highly bloggable’. Discussion goes, ‘You spotted it, you should do it’ Oh no, you’d do it better’ - and so on.
    And neither do it.

  3. Ed R Says:
    May 23rd, 2006 at 5:59 pm

    Blogging is basically public journalling. THis is not a new phenomenon. Teddy Roosevelt, a lifelong journal keeper, once talked about how his life affected his journal, and how his journal affected his life. It happened before he was at Harvard, but he mentioned something about how he had been looking around for something to write about , and then realized that he would often do that.

    TR resolved to lead his life without regard to his journal, but to write his journal as if for publication.

  4. Cliff Says:
    May 23rd, 2006 at 8:20 pm

    Excellent point Ed. Extra score for calling him TR. He HATED being called Teddy

  5. Ed R Says:
    May 24th, 2006 at 1:52 am

    I call him TR because of ‘Te Rise of Theodore Roosevelt’, by Edmund Morris. THat’s how he’s referred to in that book and its companion volume, ‘Theodore Rex’.

    I also have a sister I refer to as ‘TR’.

    So what magazine may be publishing you?

  6. Cliff Says:
    May 24th, 2006 at 8:54 am

    Don’t want to jinx it.

  7. Ed R Says:
    May 24th, 2006 at 12:13 pm

    GOtcha, I shoulda thought of that. Hopefully yuou’ll let us know when it happens.

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