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Day 2: Another Page by Eustace Allen

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Another blank page, another blinking cursor and a white white too white emptiness that is threatening to prove I can't do this.  Oh I had to add my name to the title of this post because I didn't want you to be confused that I was writing about Christopher Cross. Although now -- if you're of an age -- you have Arthur's Theme  locked in your head. Enjoy the earwig, it could have been the Macarena .  And...well now in my head it is both. How is that possible? The bicameral mentality you answer because you are bright and well-read? But it appears in my case both of my rooms are talking, not listening. Sounds familiar, since many of us live in a bicameral system of legislature , of which the chief attribute it seems is to scream ridiculous opinions and misrepresented facts at the other side and then storm out like Lindsey Graham . Bicameral just means two rooms, taken from the same root as the camera (from camera obscura or "secret room") that we have all sittin

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Twhatever

Who else has had a blog that they started, forgot about and never posted on, and then lost? Raise your hands. Be counted for what you are: a loser, like me.  Well maybe you aren't a loser. If you're alive in the world these days and have ever watched a Ted Talk, I'm sure you know what Tim Urban has to say about procrastination . If procrastination isn't my fatal flaw, well it's damn close. Maybe Satan doesn't need to do anything at all to wreck havoc except roll out his Fatal Demonic Three : procrastination, porn and Instagram .  And when you finally get back to writing (btw my gap has been 4 years this time) a glowing white-blank page and blinking cursor greet you. If you're of an age and went to college, you've seen this image a zillion times because back then we couldn't change the screen to Dark Mode. And all the cares of the world rest on what you do next...which word shall I type? Which world shall I open up for myself, never to return to the o