Welcome To the Cedar Grove

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

If you try to teach before you learn
or leave before you stay,
you will lose your ability to try.

…no amount of preparation can keep me from my experience.

Given their terrible performance in the last two games, I went into today's game anticipating defeat. How wrong I was, (for which I'm very happy)! Would it be unsportsmanlike conduct to say we absolutely destroyed them? And terrible joke notwithstanding (on FB), where I said something about Wake Forest being unable to see the wood from the trees, I spent the time of the game posting updates about the score and anything else that came to mind – including the terrible moment when I thought that Gametracker was going to stop working for good about 5 minutes before the end of the second quarter. Luckily it came back on a couple of minutes into the third quarter, so… phew to that! :D

While I was watching the little peg men running around on the field I was checking out some rousing music on Youtube. Gaile put me on to these people, called 'Two Steps From Hell.' It's kind of soundtrackish stuff obviously meant for fantasy or some kind of movie background, and from there I accidentally found 'Brand X music' (or something like that)… sort of orchestral and choral mix, very inspirational. Very stirring – it went well with some of the game.

In the end though we won… and then Mir came home, and in answer to my Skype'd message of Yay! We did it, she starts a voice chat and the first words out of her mouth are "I'm gonna KILL HIM!" LOL – and once she'd read to me the passage from the book, I understood why – and then I laughed until I cried.

That is the question, isn't it...? This morning on the bus, I thought to myself... okay describe your journey to work as detailed as you can... and there in my mind I started getting what was a very promising piece of prose. I couldn't write it down, not after I got off the bus and started walking, continuing to 'write' the prose in my head, so then I thought, if I had a voice data recorder, I could just have spoken all that and... and then I thought people would think I was barking.

Of course tonight, I can't remember it. *sighs*

An interesting thought that I came upon while reading part of a book on writing.

The word "Communicate"

It has its roots in the Latin munus which means service or duty and yet, when we look at the word we can also see com - latin for with and also uni meaning one

I'm not going to insult your intelligence by putting it all together. I leave you to assemble all of the parts in whichever order and meaning you feel appropriate.

References:
Ayres, Elizabeth. Writing the Waves: Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers. New York: Perigree, 2000