A Letter To You-Hide Your Love Away

Got thoughts flowing through my mind for a story that is somewhere between

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away and Letter To You with a dash of something by Johnny Cash. Might be that I am listening to Van Morrison sing Into The Mystic or maybe some Jim Croce song.

Could be operating off of gut feeling, with no good reason to say when you think of me I am thinking of you because logic makes that seem questionable.

But it also makes it seem likely, possible and probable.

Some fires are lit by lightning strikes and you can’t ever quite damp the flame.

So we ask What About A Lifetime Of Unfinished Business and look for answers.

What Does Any Of It Mean?

Standing in the parking lot of a BJ’s having helped to celebrate a colleague’s 30th anniversary it occurs to me that had I turned left instead of right I could joined in the early 90s as well.

Could have taken a very different road in many ways and ended up in a position like my own father and been able to say I had one employer for my career.

Would it have been any better?

Don’t know.

Would it have been different?

Very.

Standing there it occurs to me I made my first trip to Dallas in 1993 but who I was 30 years ago isn’t who I am today.

Had a couple of people talk to me then about potential opportunities here that I didn’t pursue. Was a different world, Ann Richards was the governor, housing was significantly cheaper and there were far fewer people.

Maybe I would stand in a very different place and maybe I had to do what I did to get here. Perhaps that is stuff you say when you want to rationalize things.

Perhaps it is how you justify it and maybe it is not.

Red dress, blue dress, doesn’t matter, you love both.

Be Bold

Looked up at the blue sky and watched the clouds float across the sky. Thought about a few other memories surrounding BJs here in Texas and snorted because somehow there are a few.

Wandered over to the car, checked a few emails and replayed a conversation from lunch and made a decision.

I am going to be bold. Going to make some noise and make my presence known. Played ninja long enough, it is time for the sleeper to rouse himself and see what happens when he pushes the limits a little bit.

Quiet time is over, spring storms are coming so might as well dance in the rain and the fire.

Ought to be fun.