Thank you, Mr. Labor

I’m going camping this weekend!  We have chosen to remember Mr. Labor this weekend for all of the great things he has done to make this country the great nation it is today and my family has chosen to celebrate that great man by going camping.

The camper's television!

I am really looking forward to camping!  I’m going to take my dogs and head south for cooler weather and not do much else but lie in my hammock and take my dogs on some awesome hikes.  I think I am going to bring my song books (and maybe even my guitar) and see if I can’t get some long awaited writing in too.

Any view is made better looking up from a hammock - cartoon by by Arnie Levin

The motivation for writing has been more than a little lacking these days.  It is half of the reasons I started writing this blog in the hopes that forcing myself to sit down and write something, even if it is only stupid, pointless thoughts would inspire me . . . and maybe it is working.

I actually got my song book out today to look at some of the unfinished lines I have written on receipts, traffic tickets, and anything else I could find that was close enough to me at the time of inspiration.  I had forgotten about many of them, but remembered many more and I was taken back by some of them and how good they sounded to me now.

 Many of them did not seem that good to me at the time I wrote them down, especially the ones written in the last five years and the few that I tried to finish during that period seemed forced and trite.

But now they appear to have potential and I am excited to see what may become from this weekend.  Who knows, I may come back with the first completed song I’ve written in over four years.  That is kind of exciting!

                                      I miss writing songs a lot sometimes.

Now, I understand that this is a family campout and I am probably being unrealistic as to how much alone time I will have with my thoughts.  But the potential is there and that is more than there has been in a long time.  So thank you very much Mr. Labor, here’s to you!

Happy Labor Day everyone!

Until next we meet