LJ Idol Presents: Idol Mini - Week 8 - Bycatch

There’s something in the wind tonight,
Some kind of change of weather
Somewhere some devil’s mixing fire and ice together. . .

I almost used the Open Topic of the write off to write something Jimmy Buffett inspired, given that the state’s declared Jimmy Buffett day (yes!it is a thing!)fell within the writing time. But then the yard fairies came to me and I wanted to let them be heard.

Not that my great hero Jimmy isn’t well heard already, even in absentia.

I’ve been thinking of him and his music a lot, not just because of his day but because Labor Day weekend has a place in the fandom, and also I was in a super contemplative place this time last year because I was traveling with family in a trip that was rare and spectacular.

Really that trip was exceedingly rare, come to think of it, because I was able to take it in between my husband’s brain surgery and his battery pack installation. The trip in the middle of the great cyborgification.

I wish I had more time. More time to process everything that’s flown in the last 12-18 months. More time to devote to the important parts. That’s what I really want to understand. It’s just so hard to know which parts are which. Two fifteen year old daughters and everything that’s old is new again. What do you hold onto? What do you let go? And what gets forced out when you can’t make a decision. There are so many things that get caught up in the net, but to paraphrase Jimmy you don’t know the oysters from the pearls in the moment.

Also, guys, I love oysters. Both as food and as organisms that are the base of an important food web!



Anyway, cheers to all of you, idol friends!