Best laid plans

So often ideal plans made must to be re-arranged to fit the changing contours of our lives. And so it was last weekend when I dutifully soaked a bag of red beans overnight to make a screamin' hot and spicy RB & rice meal because The Girlfriend was out of town. But then the next day I didn't make it. And then the next. And then Judy came home, and then I still didn't. And then it was too late, as you can see above. Poor little red beans; all they wanted to do was spread their wings.

And so its been recently with a bunch of stuff going on at JLPFL. A lot of plans and ideas, a lot of scheming and sketching, a lot of scratching and sniffing? But ultimately I'm not much further along than I was a couple of months ago. There have been some pluses: a new issue of Blueeyes came out yesterday, a couple of new promo cards this month, some newsletter action this Wednesday, a cool new job for Smithsonian that I'm hopefully finishing up today. But that is all the mostly regular stuff of doing business; not the sustaining stuff that helps to push ourselves forward.

The metaphorical burner is over-filled with all of the pots that I do or don't have simmering away, brimming with all of the personal documentary projects, commercial abstract series, promo campaign ideas, collaborations, story pitches, and other odds and ends that have been dreamed up but not enacted. Now they just need to be given life and removed from this stupid metaphor and blog. So lets go do that now. Have a good weekend, all.

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Comments (1)

john, thanks for this post. man, i feel that way most every day. it's tough to keep up with all the little things you have to do in order to make way for the big things you'd actually like to do. we all keep looking for balance, but i find that balance mostly comes in ways i'm not expecting, and certainly in amounts i'm not expecting!

oh, and by the way. . . it certainly is possible to cook beans without soaking them first. just double up on the amount of water, and keep an eye on the pot in case they drink up too much. they'll rehydrate as they cook, so you might have to add a bit. it's cheating, i know. . . but it works.

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