Oh Snap!

I'm not the typist I hoped I would be one day so things just didn't get finished as I had hoped. However, I found myself with some free time the last 70 days and ventured out into new territory and ended up writing my first novel. 

It is titled Jonathan Coverlet and the Supplanter Queen. 

What's it about?

It's a dirty story of a dirty man, And his clinging wife doesn't understand. His son is working for the Daily Mail. It's a steady job, But he wants to be a paperback writer.

Well, not really but it probably falls best into the "fantasy/horror/I'm not sure how to categorize it" genre. I'd read an Orson Scott Card introduction to Ender's Game where he explained that you can't really develop a believable character without showing how they interact with people around him. Not a person, but people is what burrowed into my brain. You're a different person with each individual you interact with. How someone treats their boss, versus a partner, versus a child, versus those he feels superior and inferior to. 

At that point I thought, oh my hell, I think I might be able to do that. I've read so much crap in my day, I'm going to give it a shot. So I started with Jonathan Coverlet had began describing his interactions with others, and a story began to form. Kind of like, "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out." 

Did I succeed? I don't know. What I do know is I created a handful of characters that I grew to love and who took on entities of their own, or so it felt. Regardless, I personally love them all and whether or not anyone else is still reading, I consider it one of the most fulfilling experiences in my entire life. I will be posting it online, chapter by chapter as I input it into digital form, as I wrote the whole damn thing with copy paper and a number 2 pencil. Why is that?  Well, that's another post. 

So when I get chapter one into binary code I will put a link here and invite you into the world of Jonathan Coverlet's. 

I'm Sailing Away...

I've set an open course, for the virgin seas...  #snickergigglesnort

(Is it just me or wasn't Dennis DeYoung the real voice of Styx, all their songs considered?)

🛥 As we sail through life, sometimes we make mistakes. We're human, here to learn and understand in order to gain wisdom.

🛳 And as we're sailing through life, some humans choose to make mistakes that continue to hurt over and over. Those humans who've chosen NOT to learn and understand in order to gain wisdom are foolish.

🚢 Ever sailing, some of the foolish humans choose to hurt other humans over and over. These are hurtful, foolish humans masquerade as if they are not hurtful and foolish. The wise choose to spend their lives with others like themselves.

⚓️ Bottom line? As you sail through life don't lay your anchor with a fool 🤡.

🎵 You can't live your life in one day... 🎶

The question that follows reminded me of that Howard Jones song. Anyway...

Q: What is life in one word?

A: Perspective 

Follow the way of the emoji, grasshopper, and learn its wisdom.

😀😃😄😁😆😊☺️🤣😂😅😇🙂🙃😉😌😚😙😗😘😍😋😜😝😛🤑🤗🤓😎🤡🤠😟😔😞😒😏😕🙁☹️😣😖😡😠😤😩😫😶😐😑😯😦😳😵😲😮😧😱😨😰😢😥😴😪😓😭🤤🙄🤔🤥😬🤐🤕🤒😷🤧🤢😈👿👹👺💩🤝👍👎🤘✌️🤞👌🖕👋🤙👋☝️✌️🤞🤘

I wish I could say this this was my original thought but I read it somewhere else and can't remember where. If you know, email me so I can give credit where it's due.

You can describe it as Adaptation, but the things you feel you have to adapt to is again based on how you perceive the situation.

You can describe it as an experience, but you can remember it as a good one or a bad one, that is always on your perception. Same thing makes up your memories, your perception sets them as either good memories or bad ones.

Bliss, Unjust, Futile, Unfair, Struggle, Happy

These all are nothing but perceptions. We have all these words for life because these all are based on different situations each individual faced. For example, You can be in the worst of situations and still remember it by one good memory which lights you up, that will be a good memory, incident, experience in your mind. You will then just perceive it as something beautiful.

On the other hand...

You can be in the best of situations surrounded by friends and family, but a burden you are facing. A small burden which is feeling too heavy for you at the moment to handle is there. Its bringing you down and years later, when you remember that situation, you just can’t help it but remember it by that one small burden. In your perception, that will always be something sad.

So, it doesn’t matter if you are in a war or a family gathering, it doesn’t matter if you were in a car accident or publicly awarded, your perception will always define your life.

I'm Paul Harvey, good day!

So no, not really.

And so the obstacles continue in an effort to be my kid's dad...

Updated...

Originally posted in April. 

This is the last email I sent my wife.  I never did get a response, however at sentencing last week for violating the protective order (see previous posts regarding what I did to help put it in perspective) my attorney told me she was complaining that I was using the kids as hostages in the divorce. Then everybody had a good chuckle, as you have to have people in order to hold them hostage and she has kept them from me for close to a year with a protective order. (Again, see previous post for the details.)

Here is the email I sent.  I thought I was reasonable.  I can promise I was sincere. 

April 13, 2017

Hello Jamie, 

With birthdays coming up, I am giving one last go of this.  For the healthy development of our children and to lay aside personal differences for something bigger than us, I am hoping you will be willing to take one last look at what I have been communicating with you about child visitation. In return I am offering new things to you as well. 

You and I know that the courts prefer both parents to be involved in the children's lives. It would only take you giving the nod of approval and that would allow the children's lives to find some sort of balance that has been missing.   

By working together with visitation now, I am willing to offer you some unprecedented support from me. I’ll do just about anything that helps you. I will go to the courthouse today and sign that divorce or take the next available  class. Just name it. Let me be a dad who can visit with the kids in an environment they can enjoy.  I can support you in any endeavor or relationship you want to pursue... if you'll just let me be a dad.  

The girls birthdays are approaching as well as my own and while there is little chance of them seeing me on mine, there is a chance to have their dad around at some point for theirs, even if just for a few moments.  That would mean more to them than anything anyone could buy.   

I want you to be happy. I want you to pursue the things you want to as this can only lead to our children having a more fulfilling life of their own. If there is something you need to see from me so that I can visit with the kids in a healthy and nurturing environment, let me know what it is so that I can provide you with it.  Every piece of medical documentation I have gathered supports the assertion that I am good to go around my own kids and anyone else for that matter. 

I feel this is a big deal and a big moment and opportunity.  I feel that way because we can both positively affect the children in ways that would benefit them far greater than anything else we could do.  I am offering to you the support and the understanding that I know you would want and I want to give it to you. I'm asking for only a fraction of it in return.

I hope your day goes well. 

Jonathan

And that's all the news that's fit to print.