Falcon Heavy schmevy. So what. It doesn’t compare to this launch of my blog. Dreaming, building and successfully launching the world’s biggest rocket (of today). Dreaming, building, and launching a Saturn V with nothing, but a government paycheck and a slide rule, now that’s something. It was an incredible national achievement that changed the world.
This blog is a big achievement for me, just like the first time speaking in public, except it stays there, forever. The audience is not a group you can see and touch, it is strangers with varied backgrounds, norms, ethics, bias, pains and preferences. The distrust that has been beaten into me by life, loves, friends and enemies is screaming for me to stop and pull my blanket of privacy over my head.
Just one problem with that, I don’t, and won’t, live my life controlled by fear of others or things. If I had, I would never have survived living on the street, horrendous abuses, ten years of a hot Cold War, the battles with my PTSD or all the times I was physically, emotionally or spiritually emptied by what seemed a relentless onslaught of challenges. I want to be an author and have spent the last ten years writing and studying my craft. It is time to come out and live the life, which means making my art available.
This might not change the whole world, but it will change mine, and hopefully add to yours. Please be frank if you want to critique or comment, just keep in mind I write for middle grade readers, so cleanliness and courtesy should be a given. If you want to bully, I am more than up for meeting you after school. Trolls are, well, trolls. The word coward fits better. Fight your own fight.
So, let’s do this. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
A good song for this is “Escape” by Journey from the album by the same name and number 4 on the music player. It also reminds me of the movie “Heavy Metal” that starts with a Corvette falling through space just like Elon’s Tesla. Coincidence, I don’t think so.
words & worlds 