Day One (Shadows and Scars: Update 01)

Day 1 - March 10, 2011

8:37 pm

Location: The Asian Grill, Noblesville, IN

... I guess my point is that, while I've been working on this book in one form or another since 2003 or 2004, it is demanding to be written now. And so today is officially Day One of this project. It is long overdue, or perhaps right on time.

11:58 pm

Location: IA Boys Dorm Apt., Cicero, IN

It begins with a whiteboard outline and a prayer.

May Your blessing be upon this. May You give me wisdom and guidance. May this be for Your glory and may others be blessed by my words. Mold this book, and me, according to Your will.

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So I guess I should explain what is going on here a little bit. I'm keeping a journal specifically for this writing project to chronicle the process as well as give myself a place to work out all my thoughts. I will periodically be posting excerpts from that journal to give you all an inside look at the process. Hope you enjoy!

Shadows and Scars: Updates Coming Soon

For those of you who know what this means...

And for those of you who don't, you will soon.

If I Were a Famous Musician, This Would Be My Application to the Club

IIIx

Sinope concluded that the absence of passion

was better than incomplete passion

and I tend to agree,

though I’ve been known to digress.

But I can never wander far

from the truths and the riddles:

“When every bone in your grip is broken,

your weeping will be quenched.

When you are out of outs,

you will find your way in.”

IIIx

Twenty seven new books

and twenty seven old letters

stuffed into an envelope

with a Claude Pepper stamp:

a warning – a blessing – from

the lips of Abbé Faria, eleven

years too early, never too late.

III.

I take a stand, open

to amendments, fundamentally

opposed to closing my eyes

or staring straight ahead.

All around, possibilities

and dead ends.

All around, the madness

of beautiful uncertainty.