Last weekend was my birthday…
Fortunately, I got to spend it with family and a friend. I ate plenty of cake and drank far too much beer and got to watch my beloved Louisville Cardinals win the AAC basketball tournament (then get jobbed with a #4 seed in the NCCA tourney) and enjoyed a few days of completely goofing off – plus, as a gift, I got a bright and shiny new 2560×1440 monitor that I’m now typing on. All in all, it was a great weekend.
Still, for me, birthdays are bittersweet things. They are poignant reminders of time gone by, of all the things I could of or should of or wished I had done. Another year gone by is another year to weigh and measure successes and failures and lost chances. It’s easy to ask myself where I might be and what I might have done if I just pushed harder, earlier, more consistently, in my writing career.
Of course, it truly is impossible to know, and ruminating over the past is a futile exercise. It’s the now that matters, and instead of whipping myself over what I should have done yesterday, it’s more profitable and productive to focus on what I am doing today.
I guess it’s all part of that old adage, another year older, another year wiser. God, I hope so…
I do want to take a moment and recognize the success of my “agency mate,” Kate Brauning. Her debut book, HOW WE FALL, was picked up by Merit Press at F & W Books in pre-empt for publication this November. I couldn’t be happier for her, and be sure to pick it up when it hits the shelves!
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