Sunday, August 7, 2016

Brain Drain

     Before I weave this blog post's theme from a list of excuses as to why I haven't found the time to post, let me just assure you that when life happens, the last thing it leaves room for is documentation for future reference.

     But the Arandas are back baby, and with a new vengeance! No, not really...there's no vengeance, just a whole lot of spit-up, poopee diapers and teeth pulling when it comes to teaching Darc to peel his eyes from technology and feast his gaze on more educational things. 

     Despite Cristina and I wanting him to dabble in the finer things, as we did when we were children, like reading Goosebumps and learning to work with numbers using a makeshift Abacus made of strings of corn husks and dry frijoles (that was Cristina, by the way), I must admit that Pokemon on Netflix and his fascination with Mario on my old Super NES has brought us closer together. Hopefully nobody catches on to the fact that I like those things more than he does, though. 
 
     Everyday is a struggle when it comes to finding the balance in our household, and the virtue least regarded is always cleanliness...NO, NO, NO...we do shower! And when I say "we" I literally mean "we all shower together"....sometimes. If you're a parent, you know that the word privacy is...wait, what does privacy mean again?
 
     In the end, I'm happy to be posting again. Especially because I've returned with a new take on composition, one that's more sustainable. Before, I aimed for a carefully scripted thematic approach, where if the blog post didn't feel like it had a purpose then I'd sit on it for days and days until I could manipulate the rhythm and flow so that it felt like a story, carefully crafted into a poeti....blah blah blah...you get the idea. 

     Not anymore, though. Now, you get what you read - the thoughts from my head as a slush of brain drain.


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