...reflections of you

   More on this later, just want to make note and come back to this.

   ...well, I'm back. Just returned home from watching the movie 'The Blindside' with Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. Should be required viewing for every man, woman and child. I just don't understand bigotry. Granted, my dad was the second worst bigot known to me; the first was his dad, Grandpa No Legs. Maybe that's why I am of the opposite persuasion...don't know and not sure I want to.

   Regardless, the Mrs. is a tad upset over my writing. She hasn't read it all but she knows most of it. What I've done is provided a sneak preview of the initial draft of my book to twenty-five individuals. Each of them are unique in their person, their beliefs and their friendship with me. Ironically, two of the more 'liberal' seem to be the ONLY ones upset by its contents. The one, a true child of the sixties and a pseudo flower child only read one chapter and remarked 'she didn't know how cruel I am'. For God sakes woman, these are events of my childhood and college years. Tell me woman, are you the same person you were then? I hardly doubt it.

   The second read it in its entirety. I can't really define why she is offended. Maybe its because the stories are told from a male point of view and she is a lesbian. I respect her in many ways but I think she missed the boat here. However, I still think highly of her and she is still a very good friend.

   After discussing the other twenty-three raves with my publisher, he posed one question. 'Will I let the 8 % of the population who will not buy nor read the boook stop me from going forward?' Obviously not, I am going forward and the book is due out in the Spring of 2010.

   As for the Mrs., again she feels that my writing is a reflection of me...good or bad...she only wants to protect me from the negative. Like I've explained to her, it is ONLY a part of me and not ALL of me.

   As for the reflections of you, that's another story. Maybe I'll address it a little later. For sure, there will be a story about that in my next volume. Until then, keep smilin'...makes people wonder what you've been up to...kG