The Sky is Falling and Other Laughable Lunacies

Do we not all have our busy days, and get self-absorbed in personal galaxies?

We have a consistency in getting involved with our lives yet managing consistent hellos and share expressions of frustations as a break from the crazy races we love to run. And who we commit our frequent hellos and escapes to are a matter of choice to create into existence.

Perhaps to the certain degrees that we step out of our games and play in the co-creating of realities with others and through our heavy self-indulgences or play with relationship dynamics do we communicate intentions too profound or too premature to speak of. We are all babies here attempting at communication or maybe sages with a lack for the right words.

So I finally regained a little bit more of my sanity today. Everything had to go somewhere other then where I wished. I laugh because life is funny and life is also uncertain... Things can be very compromising and inconvenient. And if I take my head into that place where fear exists then thinking is exhausting and futile that I might as well sleep.

Isn't that an obvious stagnant path; fear?

So this is what I learned about action despite circumstance;

4:40 (20 minutes free to make copies of music and do a bank errand andri joins me.)

My car doesn't start and my AAA credits were just completely used up last month.

I ask andri to take me to make copies of music and I return on time to teach my private students.


I had a great time with my 3 last students for the day:

Natalie always impresses me with her diligence in practicing. She sight reads so well through all new materials. I enjoyed a Fugue she played. She is bringing it to life.

Dylan did well with Star Wars and worked hard; his rhythm was so much better this week and we taped the session... He plays with such conviction and small hands. I have grown up students who don't read his level yet. He was thrilled to begin working on a Cold Play piece.

And lastly, Lizzy, was excited to show me her class ring with the theatre masks and notes to represent the arts. She'll be playing her first informal recital this season with my other students. She practices "in secret" so her dad mentioned last week. I told him that she was doing well. We record her pieces and present a tape to them every year.

While teaching, I forgot about my car. When I finally finished my final lesson of the day, I lightly mentioned my car to someone that I hoped it would start. A stranger volunteered to come out and look at it. His name was Ricardes and he figured that my car needed a jump so he found another person to help out and got my car going.

My car came to life! I decided to drive it across the valley to my car's specialist and got into the carpool lane because I was afraid that if it stopped than my engine might too. Eddie who gives TLC to my bug was there. He came out after I finished writing my note for him and separating the key. And then my friend called to say she got a flat and won't be able to get me. So Eddie drove me to a nearby restaurant so that I may wait to find another friend to pick me up. He was heading in the opposite direction I needed to go.

I had several unsuccessful attempts at finding someone available to collect me. I enjoyed a dinner at a hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese restaurant where everyone came to watch Monday night football. It was guys night out at most the tables. I was a bit self-conscious at first but had no time for I was reconnecting with friends too far away to be helpful when I finally found Dixon would make his way out to pick me up and take me home.

I will be borrowing Nicole's car tomorrow to teach and keep with my appointments and then picking her and Ana up from two different airports, (that will be interesting) I am hoping that my car has something relatively easy and inexpensive to sort out. Aside from micro fleeting moments of self-pity when I had difficulty finding someone to help me out, I haven't had time to get swept away by the car drama and make up some stories how it'll ruin my day tomorrow.

I have a party to throw. My roommate is returning after being away for a month and one of my best friends is returning to town after a week's vacation!