Lake Calhoun.
It's another early morning in Minneapolis, and the sky is grey and clouded. It's really likely going to rain today, which I guess after a few days of it not raining and some sunlight coming through the clouds giving hope that I might just make it around the lake a second time, is O.K.! That being said, I woke up just after 4:00 AM in some minor chest discomfort. I guess I should've skipped that last pork chop at yesterday's family potluck. It took me a good chunk of time to get back to sleep only to get up and try to run it off. Must be that pork chop....
As most family gatherings go, people ask or just talk about what's going on in their life or yours depending on who's at the table. I'm sure this is happening to the gal too, considering she's not been home for a while, but, yeah, people want to know things..even if they're not asking. Sensitive topic when it comes to family matters, and family does matter even in the distance and present silence. I continue to promote that I wrote my blog story, The Pursuit of Happiness, to explain some misunderstandings between my now former and myself and why things went down the way they did, but I also wrote it because of how people get defensive about their loved ones and how their positive or negative presentation of their other significant creates 'mentalities' about them in the people that love us..even if those perceptions/mentalities are mostly cerebral and not all real. I also wrote the story as a factual sequence of events and activities as a defense to what was becoming a perpetuating negative whirlwind around her, me and us that hasn't or won't allow peace in us or between us. I saw it coming, and all I could do at the time was write as it was happening to keep it all as correct as possible. It makes it hard to feel good about a person or what happen between them and you when some other third party person is calling every 5 minutes because they feel your life is in danger. Really...! Come on... So, you can imagine some social cleansing of the minds needs to be done one way or the other, but at the end of the day, it's about what we need and what we want individually and agreed upon as people moving forward devoid of outside opinion. Enough of that topic for today! LOL.
The weekend is almost over, and it has rained way less than it was forecast to. We could say that we've had really good State fair weather because most of my perceptions of weather are based on what would be ideal State Fair time. As a kid, from the crack of dawn to the end of the day, I worked in the food stands at the fair working my way up from dish washer to a back up cook, to a lead cook, and finally a concession manager. In that time, the weather either makes for a really good day or a really not so good day. Hahaha. I enjoyed the sunny days that were cooler for working, but on a non-work day, I could care less if everyone seemed to be stuck to each other. It's what people go to the fair to do, watch, and wonder about...the 'togetherness', sharing food, and likely drinking a few alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (in no real order) before trying to remember which shuttle bus you came over in. It has been good to be home for the fair in years past, and I will be happy to do it again!! Sure, I'll miss the bitter sweet interchange of weather, music, and the emotions they drive in us, but I have a date with destiny on the West Coast that I'm a year overdue on. Like most of my life, I better show up and see what happens. Cause I know if I don't nothing can happen at all. That's the today's grind from Minneapolis,"where all the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." G.K.
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