Short Story Friday: What Fools these Mortals Be

April Fools!

There is no short story.

Not trying to be snarky here. There was actually a story written.

It’s pretty much garbage.

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As Hemingway said:

The first draft of anything is shit.

Sorry about the language. Ernest didn’t hold back.

I have set my own deadline, my own goal to produce a short story every week and post it here. It’s all part of an ongoing project to write thirty-one stories about growing up in Southwest Virginia. Yeah, that’s a hint.

Seems easy enough, right?

Thirty-one weeks. Thirty-one stories.

A piece of cake if I had nothing else to do.

I’m not whining.

I am allowing myself some grace.

Grace enough to say I can change my mind. Grace enough to say I can’t meet all the deadlines.

I’ll get these done. Maybe not in thirty-one weeks…I am a little more than a third of the way there.

But I will get them done.

Just not today.

As I’ve mentioned earlier this week, we head to the Outer Banks tomorrow. They offspring will stay home to care for the livestock.

I won’t leave you empty handed. Check back Monday, there will be a post. You might even like it.

Grace to you.


THINGS YOU SHOULD READ

Nearly A Year-And-A-Half After The DCNF, WaPo Finally Confirms Hunter Biden Laptop
Daily Caller
The stories come roughly 17 months after the Daily Caller News Foundation proved the contents of the laptop could be authenticated by verifying an email from an account used by Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharsky to Hunter Biden, in which Pozharsky thanked the president’s son for “inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.” Read More.

Biden returns to misguided corporate tax hike
Washington Examiner
Why Biden is doing this now is unclear. After all, new budget numbers reveal that U.S. companies are now paying the highest level of taxes in the country’s history, higher than they were paying before the 2017 tax cut. Read More.

BORN ON THIS DAY

1873 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1943)
1883 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1930)
1901 – Whittaker Chambers, American journalist and spy (d. 1961)
1929 – Jane Powell, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2021)
1939 – Ali MacGraw, American model and actress
1950 – Samuel Alito, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

BENEDICTION


 

 

Three Months, Three Words

Here we are at the end of the third month of 2022. That means we have a 75% chance of making this year better than the last two.

That’s a passing score. Just barely.

March sort of came in like a lamb and out with slap. So to speak.

Too soon?

But we said we weren’t going to talk about that anymore.

I’ve been taking the last day of the month to consider how I’m doing with My Three Words for the year.

Recover. Read. Rise.

Recovery continues to be…a work in progress if you will. The reality is that recovering from cancer treatment in your sixties is far different that recovering from cancer treatment in your thirties.

Yes, I am well aware of how fortunate I am. I am well aware that there are others who are not as fortunate. That’s not the point here.

I’m doing okay, but not great, with my Reading. I’m one book behind on my Goodreads challenge, but I plan to catch up at the beach next week. Have I mentioned that I’m going to be at the beach next week? I think I might have.

It’s possible that I’ll fall behind on the reading of books later. But as I’ve written recently, I do a lot of online reading…and not just on Facebook, thankyouverymuch.

I am attempting to Rise to the occasion(s) as the case may be.

You know as well as I do that many of the occasions so far in 2022 have been pretty stinkable.

The challenge is to rise to meet them. Rise above them.

It ain’t easy.

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But, we keep going.

I’d like to think that the next time I do a little review of these three words that life will be so much better, there really will be peace on earth, my yard will be free of neighbor scorn.

We all know that it’s going to take more than thirty days for things to get a lot better.

We all fear that things may never get better.

We can’t quit.

So, that’s why I’ll continue to Recover.

That’s why I’ll continue to Read.

That’s why I’ll continue to, or make every effort to Rise.

And in thirty days, we’ll look at this all again.

 


THINGS YOU SHOULD READ

BREAKING NEWS: Bruce Willis, 67, is diagnosed with degenerative brain condition and will step away from acting
Daily Mail
Bruce Willis, 67, has been diagnosed with a brain condition that affects his ability to understand language and will be stepping away from acting, his family has announced. Read More.

Matt Gaetz Confronts FBI Official On Whereabouts Of Hunter Biden’s Laptop, Enters It Into Congressional Record
Daily Caller
Gaetz then noted how Hunter Biden’s password was easily hackable and asked whether the FBI knew where the laptop is. Vorndran said it was an accurate statement from Gaetz that the FBI does not know the whereabouts of the computer. Read More.

Heart Damage Found in Teens Months After Second Pfizer Shot, Study Shows
Children’s Health Defense
A new peer-reviewed study shows more than two-thirds of adolescents with COVID-19 vaccine-related myopericarditis had persistent heart abnormalities months after their initial diagnosis, raising concerns for potential long-term effects and contradicting claims by health officials that the condition is “mild.”  Read More.

BORN ON THIS DAY

1596 – René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1650)
1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1809)
1922 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
1932 – John Jakes, American author
1934 – Shirley Jones, American actress and singer
1935 – Herb Alpert, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
1939 – Israel Horovitz, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor
1948 – Al Gore, American soldier and politician, 45th Vice President of the United States
1948 – Rhea Perlman, American actress
1971 – Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor

BENEDICTION