Virginia Is For Families

Hey it’s three thirty in the morning and here I am at the computer!  I was dreaming and having a conversation with someone about Charlize when suddenly there she was!   And I was startled into awakedness.

I wish she wouldn’t jump out at me like that.  Her beauty is rather overwhelming and when she in one of those aggressive characters she plays it’s impossible to keep the dream together.  It vanishes.

But I went to bed early last evening so it’s alright.  Nine to three is six hours.  And it only takes about three to five minutes to exit earth and its concerns.

My younger son Zachary and the beautiful Ashley have parted ways.   He moved out.  She kept the dog Bruno.  It’s sad when young lovers “divorce” but they had some good times and definitely learned some valuable lessons.  Hopefully they will enjoy the rest of their college years.

I would encourage all young people to invest their time and energy in the freedom they have to grow and explore life.   Learn to treasure the freedom you have as much as the love you feel for someone.  Why go down the long road to domestic life now when every day can bring a new adventure?

Zachary told me he is going to go to Spain for his senior year at VCU.  They have a coop program.  I think he said he was going to stay in Barcelona.  And he wants to start a shirt business at school.   He went to Richmond City Town Hall to find out about licenses and insurance.  He needs investors (me).  He found an art student with experience in shirt design.  Away we go!

I heard from my older son Jeremy yesterday.  Sarah had to go back to Virginia Beach where her family live for something.  So Jeremy is alone in a big house in Lynchburg for a few days.  And he misses his young family.  So he called his Dad.  Isn’t that nice?  We talked about the Washington DC pro football team.  When he was growing up they were in their glory years.  We would go to Jeremy’s soccer games and listen to them on the car radio.  What blissful  times we had when the soccer and the football both went well.  Usually the football did and the soccer did not but we enjoyed travelling around the state together anyway.

The Washington DC pro football team (I believe they still associate themselves with Native American culture) have suddenly become amazingly good.  Jeremy says it has a lot to do with their new coach Jim Zorn.  But they have amazing players and their new quaterback Jason Campbell hasn’t turned the ball over in awhile.  Maybe since the year started!  Is that possible?  His passes seem amazingly accurate.  Jeremy says that Zorn used to be a quarterback and he has really helped him.

The coach wanted to give them Monday off after their great win over Philly but the players said they wanted to practice.  They don’t want to have a let down against the teams that are coming up with poor records.  How smart is that!  How amazing too!  Giving up a day off!  Has this ever happened before anywhere?

Both Jeremy and Zachary are ecstatic about the team!  Onward to the playoffs!

Maybe I will make some scrambled eggs.  But only if I can find a pan that doesn’t have a Teflon surface.  And then it will be time to read some of the blogs on the old blogroll.   Or eat some egg rolls.  Or go back to bed.

I’ll be there in a minute Charlize.

“Oh Hi Beth!   Would you like some scrambled eggs?”

It makes things a lot easier if you write about something that fascinates a lot of people.   I was looking at some of the top blogs earlier and they focus on movie stars and electronics stuff.   If you do that in a cool way you will easily have a successful blog.  I used to put photos of movie stars in a blog that was sort of floundering around and they brought in a lot of readers.  But then I found this very unsatisfying.  Because I wasn’t going to advertise off of them and make money.  I was just serving them in some strange way that they most likely didn’t even want or need.  There was no joy in it and certainly no creativity.

So I stopped doing that and took all of it down except for the absolutely amazing photos of a couple of dynamite babes including a fascinating photo of Charlize Theron.  But that really is another subject and it goes beyond blogging into the realm of remembering how beautiful a human being can be for awhile on the outside.

So I am still floundering on that blog NewsLink Briefs but at least it gives me something to think about and experiment with in my more relaxed moments.  Blogging is in general a way of dealing with idle time in my book and avoiding the boob tube and other mostly useless activities.

So more power to these guys but if it’s not about money, electronics or the latest Hollywood gossip you have a more challenging way to go.   A lot of us out here are trying to make something interesting out of our unglamorous lives.  We are doing it without superior media skills or writing ability.  And we are supporting each other as we try to do this.   We are not in competition with each other.

I am basically enjoying life and taking photos that will memorialize the good times in a way that requires me to do it on a regular basis.  So later when I get Alzheimer’s I can look at this blog and try to remember how things were in the good old days on a day to day basis.

Probably you won’t read about that rationale for blogging anywhere else on the web today.  Or possibly ever.

But I’m still going to blog until the end of my days.

“Ate soup today”

“Got lost in the woods”

“Charlize Theron  came to visit me today and wanted to make love”.

So I guess that makes me a dedicated blogger.   I have a niche.   And I hope you will pardon me but I need to go scratch it.

There are a few
Who I’ve known
Through these keys
(Not the telephone)
Who are in my soul.
They slipped thru somehow
And whereever they go
From here to Moscow
I hope for their pleasure
Their good times and laughter.
And pray they always
Find their way to safety
Because they are good
And their lives do matter.
Though we passed in the street
I would not have a clue
It was them I should greet
And their hugs I should capture.

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