Do Something Spiritual

Some things are meant to be the way they're gonna be

'Cos you can't stop time or change history

Sometimes all you saw were the things you wanted to see

if you be lookin for the answer you would have to go to me

'Cos now you've only got a moment boy

To get it right to get it right to get it right to get it right

So if you really wanted me you'd show me how

'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now

Oh if you really wanted me you'd show me how

'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now

"Little Remedy" By Sandi Thom

Just when I thought that I had broken out of my writing lull and the rut I found myself in, I was brought back by forces beyond my control. The whole family caught a bad, bad cold. I nursed Flan and the girls, ate my vitamins, and prayed I would escape unscathed. Such was not the case. I convalesced in front of the computer but the only thing I could think to write was, "Oh, I'm so sick! So very, very sick!", over and over again like the mad author in "The Shining", but that gets old for the reader and the writer quickly. Besides, by the third line I was so out of it that I started to misspell things. I have only just recovered somewhat.

What did I do on the computer, you might ask? Well, I was working away at one of my all-time greatist time-wasters, a computer game called "Pharoah". It is a city-builder type game, but you get to build pyrimids, farm, trade, as well as warring with the Nubians and the Canaanites occasionally. This game can suck me in for hours at a stretch as it is very emmersive in the culture and history, but I'll be honest, I just like watching as my peasants brew the beer.

So I found myself listless, sick, writer's-blocked, and in an extraordinary funk and I desperately needed something to boot me out of it. I think perhaps I've found it.

Should you, God forbid, find yourself in a similiar situation, try this: see the sunrise. Not just see it all bleary eyed, staggering home from some drunken outing that turned out wrong, but make it an occasion and spend it with someone you love. Like a picnic perhaps. A little snack like raspberries, and if you don't have to work, a little bubbly to wash them down. Take a few minutes as you snuggle close against the morning chill and watch the wonder of the dawning of a new day and contemplate the marvelous possibilities that it might hold. Draw in a lungful of the fresh damp air and hold it for a second. You can almost taste the promise of hope and life starting anew.

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In a pinch, sunset will do, but it just isn't the same somehow.

Doc

P.S.- I've included a Youtube video for the Sandi Thom song mentioned above. I heard this song over the P.A. at work and the line about, "I'm your little remedy, take me now" tends to stick with me for some reason. I selected this version because it was the only one that wasn't live and you could hear the words. The song quality is good, but the video seems to be a heart-felt I Love You from a girl to her boyfriend that is constructed solely of stills taken from one of the Final Fantasy games, but there is a reason they say love is blind, and in this case, tacky. Here ya go...