Tom

living out life
2009-04-09 23:05:28 (UTC)

Reading, Gardening and Writing

Three things have taken up my spare time lately.

First, I've been reading a lot. I've been stuck on Clive
Cussler for a while now and even though sometimes the
story is a little corny, I enjoy reading his books. Also,
my brother has a collection of Louis L'Amour books and
I've been raiding his library. I just finished Hondo and
even though I am not much for reading westerns, I thought
it was a great book.

Second, my son and I planted the garden two weeks ago. We
learned a lot from our gardening experience last year and
we are hoping for even better results this year. We've got
a drip water system set up and so far everything is
looking pretty good. We're even getting prepared to try
our hand at the pumpkins later on in the summer. That
didn't work out for us last year, but I we know more about
it now.

Finally, I don't exactly know the correct way to go about
it, but I am in the process of writing a book. I know, I
know... a lot of people say they want to write a book, but
the truth is most of them don't. For me, it has become
something of an obsession lately. It's not about writing
so that it can be published, this is something that I am
doing for myself. I just want to be able to say that I
started it and completed it.

I take my writing seriously but, to be honest I am pretty
private about it. Other than posting it here, I really
haven't told a lot of people. I did tell one good friend
at work. He was courteous and showed interest when I told
him a little about the story, but I could tell that he was
only trying to be nice. That's okay though. After all, I
don't expect other people to be as excited about it as I
am.

Honestly, I'm not quite sure how I am doing the reading,
writing and gardening and still have time for work and
family. It's a balancing act, that's for sure, but isn't
life always that way?




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