A Fable

I once watched a spider building its web. It was not long ago, in a place I love to go to, where water and sky meet. The spider was working between two branches overhanging the water. I watched for a long time as it spun, round and round, creating a beautiful trap in order to feed itself. After finishing the web the spider hurried away to a hidden part of the web and began to wait. After a bit I noticed a dark low cloud out over the water swiftly moving toward me. At first I thought it was a flock of birds until I realized the mass was much closer than birds could have been as the mass was close yet still seemed to be made of small animals. As they reached me, I realized it was a small swam of flying insects, dragonflies of all things. As I realized they could not hurt me, the web I had been watching caught my attention as the first dragonfly flew into it. The spider quickly dropped from its hiding place and bit the struggling dragonfly. Soon the dragonfly was still and the spider was wrapping it up to be eaten later. Suddenly there were two more dragonflies caught in the web. The spider moved to bite one of them and as the spider was wrapping the dragonfly and moving onto the third dragonfly, five more dragonflies hit the web and stuck. The dragonflies all struggled to release themselves and the web began to give way under the wriggling, straining bodies. As three more dragonflies hit the web, it broke away from the branch and fell, dragonflies and spider into the water. I watched as the spider, no doubt surprised by going from feast to sure death in the matter of moments, beat its legs against the water to try to swim in a vain attempt at saving itself. As he spider began to stop moving I swatted at a dragonfly that had attempted to land on my cheek and began to move back away from the water.

Are you wearing your windbreaker?

As the winds of change and uncertainty swirl around those I love, and the cold air has returned to northern Ohio, I find myself thankful that I live a relatively simple life as a single happy gay man.

Often time the biggest decision in my life is what to have for dinner or what movie to go see.  One day the winds will catch up with me and sometime I wonder how will I manage them.  I hope that I will handle them with the presence of mind and power of thought that some of my friends handle them.  I hope I will be able to use their experiences to help me though whatever the winds may blow my way.

So as I prepare for a lazy Sunday of seeing a movie with Jim, sitting here on the couch with Katie my cat, watching a little TV and checking out the internet, I hope that these winds soon die down and the sun of contentment comes out to warm all and especially my friends who forgot to button their windbreakers all the way up.

A New Day?

Often time, when reading blogs or just wondering about wondering, I feel that for as smart as I believe myself to be, I am not smart as those around me. Other blogs talk eloquently about different topics and often about the blogger him/herself yet when I sit to write about my thoughts I end up in some trivial diatribe about TV or gambling or some other thing that that in the greater scheme of things really isn’t that important.

But then again, I’m almost certain that my brain is not wired like most people’s and that the worries of the world that many others search answers for by writing and contemplating just don’t really matter in my simplistic world. Now this isn’t to say I’m just a flighty nancy boy who doesn’t worry about the world and how I fit into it. I think on the other hand I spend more time enjoying the world and experiencing things there are to experience and not thinking about how these experiences need to be shared with others and how these experiences can help change me to do something great in this world of ours.

I leave that to the great thinkers and doers around me. There are many of you out there who are doing a great job in making the world a better place for all and I say thank you and keep up the great work. In the meantime I will watch TV, play a little poker and plan my next trip to Sin City USA.

On a completely different topic, I realized a few days ago what I want to do when I grow up, but unfortunately it would not pay the bills and keep me in the lifestyle in which I have become comfortable. Live theater is what I have always loved. Whenever I have been involved in some production, whether it was playing the Cello for a musical or an opera or making costumes or just seating people at the local playhouse, I love the theater and all that it stands for. There are probably a few dozen theaters in the Cleveland area and I plan on taking in more of their shows and perhaps even finding one or two and getting involved. Want to join me sometime in viewing or helping out? I hope so because it’s always more fun with a group!

LOL

Day of Adventure - Final Entry

OK OK, my one and only New Years resolution: to try mighty hard to write on this blog more than one a quarter.

I still haven’t even finished the day of adventure series yet and there is so much more to share.

After The Maritime Museum, we headed off to Lorain OH to try to go to the lighthouse there. After wandering around for a bit following the computer generated directions we discovered that one can not drive to the lighthouse and to this day I’m not sure you can even visit it (a New Years quest I need to Google).
So Jim and I headed backwards a few miles to this wonderful public park in Lorain. Actually a this point I can’t remember what it’s name is but here are some pics. Jim took a nap in the grass while I sat and took pics.