spring

Tonight, a glorious, tipping toward 70 night, first grill night, first sit outside and read night, first comma heavy. Tonight the deep bone chill got thawed. Setting it up: I was sitting on the couch with a fat Bauhaus book on my lap, the computer open at my heels and the World Baseball Classic on the small screen. I was chilly in the bones with a sweatshirt on. Margaret comes in from out-of-doors and says, “go outside and get warm”. What? That don’t make no sense. But I did and and the sweaty shirt soon came off.

I started reading a book I tagged onto an order from Sort Floor, a discount place my brother told me about. They have some great books for super cheap. This one sounds embarrassing, a self-help type. I got it because it was $2 and I thought that it was by Paul Auster, whom I’ve never read, but I knew Sophie Calle worked with him, and I thought for $2, who cares? It turns out, its Paul Arden–a British ad man that has a lot of good things to say. Its fun reading. For example:

without having a goal its difficult to score.

theatre director Joan Littlewood said, “if we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route”

its wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, rigid-minded, dull and smug. There’s no talking to them.

risks are a measure of people. people who won’t take them are trying to preserve what they have. people who do take them often end up by having more. being wrong isn’t in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn’t anywhere but being here.

A person who doesn’t make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

do not seek praise, seek criticism.

Best of all tonight:

Getting fired can be a positive career move; being fired often means that you are at odds with your company. It means the job isn’t right for you. I have been fired five times, and each time my career took a step forward. Being fired used to mean a negative on your CV or resume. Now some headhunters find it as an asset because it can show initiative.

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The other night we were having dinner with some old friends of Margaret’s here in Lexington. They were wanting to call us, but lost our number. They google tapped us and landed on this blog. Hearing that made me feel embarrassed because this blogging is so random and so strange for me that it’s embarrassing, if I’m honest. I was compelled to explain the blogging and thought, “I’ve never explained it on the blaugh”. It’s to add personality, if you will, to the product. Sometimes, I’m sure, the personality comes off too strong and the Dovetail ceramics is lost. I don’t know who reads this goo, but I doo care. If you read, we one. Anyways, this day felt like spring so I think I’m spring cleaning the cob salad out of my brain. The book by Paul Arden is a fun lil suprise boost. Go to the Sort Floor site and get it and a couple other good’ns. Not that this is an ad, its karma.