Growing Younger

Hi world!

It's me. . .

Promise I'm still alive. I am just having a drought of words, feelings, music, positiveness, perseverance, life-loving. All those sorts of things that make for good blog posts.

When I try to write, I sound like I listen to screamo-emo music and wear black and plaster on dark make-up [which really isn't that consistent with the "lindsey" image. but hey, don't we all have an emo inside of us sometimes?]

But don't worry. I have a plan.

I can do hard things. :)

We are all onions. Or parfaits. Multi-layered. Multi-faceted. Multi-personalitied. p.s. did you know that there is a story by William Steig called Shrek!. More proof that a movie with an actual storyline originated as a book.

Right now I am exploring the slightly depressed and grumpy level of Lindsey. It's essential and I'm learning.

I'll be back. Hopefully sooner rather than later. :)

From William Steig's "Dominic". At the start of his journey Dominic comes to a fork in the road. A witch-alligator gives him this council:

"That road there on the right goes nowhere. There's not a bit of magic up that road, no adventure, no surprise, nothing to discover or wonder at. Even the scenery is humdrum. You'd soon grow much too introspective. You'd take to daydreaming and tail-twiddling, get absent-minded and lazy, forget where you are and what you're about, sleep more than one should, and be wretchedly bored. Furthermore, after a while, you'd reach a dead end and you'd have to come all that dreary way back to right here where we're standing now, only it wouldn't be now, it would be woefully wasted time later."

"Now this road, the one on the left," she said, her heavy eyes glowing, "this road keeps right on going, as far as anyone cares to go, and if you take it, believe me, you'll never find yourself wondering what you might have missed by not taking the other. Up this road, which looks the same at the beginning, but is really ever so different, things will happen that you could never have guessed at—marvelous, unbelievable things. Up this way is where adventure is. I'm pretty sure I know which way you will go."