STARS: You & Me

A L O H A !

" All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

And then the whining school-boy,

with his satchel. . ."

"JAQUES "

 

Shakespeare
As You Like It, 1600

"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially;

"it's a almighty element.
There's wonders in the deep,

my pretty. "

    Charles Dickens

It's hard to remember

back to this state of mind,

but I used to wake up
with a jolt

and wonder:
' WHAT is going wrong 
today!?! '

EVERYTHING seemed a burden,

worried me,

and added to my general

hopelessness.

Strangely, it was hanging around with

bikers,

specifically my friend Rat,

that hipped me to the fact

that maintenance is part of

life - not an emergency-

and CERTAINLY NOT 

a judgement from on High

Hanging around in the garage,

having good greasy fun

(some of it legal and printable)

changing my own oil,

and feeling tools in my hand-

well it was pretty exotic stuff

to this child of a family that

straight out bickered

at every little thing
that came up.

A flat tire,
or needed oil change

is NOT somebodies 

fault!

Who knew?

So this week,

A few little, em,

life-problems

have popped up.

Gosh, I'm SO over 
panicking!

Long story short,

I kept my cool,

paused BEFORE acting,

and SHOOTS, if the scary problems

didn't just get worked out beautifully!

So THAT's what it means:

A coward dies a thousand deaths

 (every day!)

The brave die only once.

It seems to me now,

that prevention, maintenance,

nagging repetitive tasks,

unexpected complications,

unforeseen problems,

are all merely the Plot Points

and Minor Characters

in OUR movie/film.

WE are the stars!

It is HOW we play the role of

our-self,
dealing with

these Minor Characters,

all this "Stage Business"

of life,

that determines if the film

is a comedy, tragedy,

or farce; 

  Whether it turns out to be

up lifting, 
or troubling.

Because

we are not just the protagonist,
we are TRUE Auteur's:

We are each the Director,

as we are Lead Star
too !

So I'm done 

letting: minor characters,

or plot-points,

steal my

close-ups.

Aloha,
pleased to meet you!

I'm Cloudia,

problem solver,

true Auteur,

S T A R !

Thank you SO much
for coming to my theater today;

Step up out of the audience,

onto the "Comments" stage

and tell us something about 

YOU,

about YOUr week

                                      WARMLY, cloudia