Virtual Existence Time Machine

The repository of the human brain is extraordinary, and we use only a small percentage of the capacity. And there is the old adage, USE IT OR LOSE IT! I'm desperately trying to use it as much as possible. There are little, amazing triggers in the mental filing system that work for me. For instance: MUSIC: Old tunes and songs from when I was 6 or 7 years-old sitting on the piano bench beside cousin Betty who was thumping the keys with the 40's pop music. I remember the entire scene; the piano, the stacks of sheet music, my uncles standing behind me singing. How much I loved it. Newer music from musicals I've directed or choreographed. I remember the performers, the stage, standing back stage. Or when I was performing, I remember the moments on stage, what my body position was. Often just a second or two trigger by a fragment of music. And get this: If I think about a specific part of my body, especially the right top shoulder, I can recall an injury doin...

 (This is a post from my blog on writing.com. This was a prompt)   It's Saturday and the flea market is open. What treasures did you discover? Do you actively look for certain items? Or do you buy closed boxes because you like mysteries? What kind of shopper are you? After the years in Iran, and now Belize, I haven't seen a flea market for many years. In these countries everything is used and reused until it is totally garbage-dust. Large families absorb everything and dispose of virtually nothing. In Belize, what we do get are containers full of used clothing from the US. Twice a week new stuff is put out and usually sold by the pound. I guess like Goodwill on a grand scale. Now this is not fancy clothing, just jeans, shorts, t-shirts, jackets, slacks, pullovers, kids clothes, etc. I don't know, maybe the overflow from all the giant flea markets gets shipped here? The last flea market I visited was in 2005 in Paris. Wow! that was amazing. A 100 year-old i...

A little technical, but interesting to boat people and engineering minds...   Our boat is Pania, a Ferro-Cement, 30,000 lb 45' Cutter sailboat (The only cement yacht in Belize with electric motor) with an AC-34 Motor and Curtis Controller from Thunderstruck. It's programmed for 4000+ RPM with a 3.3-1 pulley reduction for the shaft that we have built. We had the mounting plate done here and have used some parts from Toyota Corolla . Used the front wheel thrust bearing and CV joint at the end of the shaft putting a flange from the back wheel. There is no shop over here to go and buy pulleys and cog wheels .So timing pulleys did the job after some refitting. It was all to keep the cost down because most of our budget went to customs, taxes and shipping . The Ferro-Cement hull was built in 1975 in Florida (Canadian design). We got the boat after it had sat for several years with leaking windows and the bilges overflowing. Ugh! Took some time and a lot of cleaning...

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Agatha Christie I just finished my second novel...and it only took ten years! The getting started part was easy. The getting the work completed was daunting, faced with distractions and other commitments. It has been only since joining writing.com (WDC) and getting focused and motivated has the actual writing happened. Thanks to my fine friends at WYRM the book, APEX PROJECT is finally into the area of an entire science-fiction novel that needs tweaking, trimming and fine tuning to finish. What a good feeling! Now I know that Miss Christie's advice about getting started has to happen every time you wake up for a new day.   Getting started is never a completed action.  Live with it! Happy writing all... (or whatever you intend to do) >>>iggy

TIME IS SPEEDING UP My high school graduating class is getting ready for their 60th REUNION !!! How is that possible? I'm not old, I'm just a little wrinkled. I saw some of them at the 40th reunion, but other than a well-maintained news letter, I have almost no contact. Now, I'm living on a sailboat in Belize and have no plans to return to the United States. They say time is speeding up. Have you noticed? I certainly have! >>>iggy

How many days? every day my email reminds me to renew my blog.And everyday I push it aside to deal with reconstruction inside the boat (my home)trips to town, visitors, cooking, cleaning, laundry...you all know that routine. Then comes a pile of really good reviews for my book. Now that's really important. There are more reviewers coming up---and i cannot let them find the same errors. So the time is devoted to re-editing and re-posting. This book is beginning to have form and substance that I'm proud of, thanks to the in-depth reviews at WYRM. Plus I'm reviewing a book for another of our members. A new chapter every week. i guess it boils down to writig priorities. The blog slips down the list. Some bloggers disappear. I won't do that. I just may be a bit thin. Writing on... >>>iggy

As a fiction writer I only use the real world as a reference/resource, and especially for speculative fiction. I happily go my own way expanding, altering, imagining... But these last few days, events in the real world are feeling more fictionalized than my imaginary worlds. Disappearing airliners, and 25 countries involved one way or another, have created a storm of television, internet and print words of speculation, accusation, reaction and directed propaganda. Right beside that is the mostly created situation in the Ukraine. Distractions abound. Serious threats and counter threats, government egos flaring to blind and impress. Where in all that is a thread of reality? I couldn't write such things, as they would be hard to believe and not justified as a solid story. Add to that the many layers of 'Climate Change', 'Currency Change', and Governmental manipulations by the G-pick a number. Our Human world is writhing and twisting with a million belief...