Just for Today

Get over yourself.  That is what I am thinking.  Everyday I think about how I am going to write my next post.  Thoughts run through my head ranging from grandiose to bland.  I've been wanting to relate the story of Frodo the Hobbit and his trip up to Rivendale before taking his daring journey to Mordor.  But I had to dismiss that notion because the whole Lord of the Rings series has been tainted.  It used to be that a discerning reader could classify someone by their knowledge of Lord of the Rings.

"Oh, you have read Lord of the Rings?"  And suddenly you knew that this person was, or fashioned themselves as a geek, nerd, or possible D&D aficionado.  But not simply a run-of-the-mill geek.  A Lord of the Rings fan had a heroic heart even if the spine that backed it up was a touch brittle.

Now you say Lord of the Rings and people talk about what a great movie it was.  My own girlfriend has never read the books...only seen the movies.  I am ashamed.

Other times I think about relating each one of my days through some invented hero who can stand tall in the face of the trivialities that arise from my lazy methods of travel.  It is hard to have a heroic journey when you don't even a time table  Who ever heard of the hero sauntering along to save the day?

And so I get to wherever it is I am heading each day and the night steals the light and I think about all these things I am going to write to those of you who would like to stay updated on my journey (thanks for reading Mom) and all of it seems less than huge, smaller than real.  And I don't write.

So when you read about my faux-hero...don't laugh.  Just read between the lines and know my day.

That is it.  For today, I wrote.