Lying on my back, looking up at the sky.

Lying on my back, lookng up at the sky.

I think they used to do that in the comic Bloom C0unty, back before Burke Breathed became insufferable and self-referential and then thankfully disappeared.

My friends in Da Woods could certainly take a lot of shots like this. I was just wanting to lie in the soft grass and rest and the shot was irresistable. I like that it shows what I saw. Sometimes that is a struggle, getting the camera to see what the mind's eye sees.

Tonight, I go to the agency annual dinner. It's a banquet and we have to pay for the meal. We also have to make a display, on a theme, to describe our program. This morning, while I waited for the guy from Direct TV to come, I finished my display. It was "loose." Most of the "cool" displays were done by scrap-book types with phots and 3-D effects and what not. Mine was construction paper, sharpies, ball point pen and yarn. I am a highly paid administrator, but this morning I was doing my last minute Science Fair display all over again. I was thinking: "The agency is worried about quality and revenue, and here I am doing a bullshit display out of cardboard and construction paper instead of healing young minds and taking care of business."

I can see that my administrative future may be limited. I tried to delegate the thing, but the guy I delegated to came down with poison oak and scabies, the same week that his 16 month old son came down with a urinary tract infection. He trumped me.

In the end, this sort of white noise is exactly why we stop, regress, and do nothing, intentionally. And this is a good thing. We need to do nothing in a focused way. We need to do this regularly. In fact, tonight at the banquet, I am going to paste a jovial smile on my face and have a scotch, cash bar, and enjoy the dynamics of the moment.

We have a number of rich ladies and gentlemen who we involve in our work. No mistake, we make demands on them and get a lot of work out of them, and they need to spend time with us "regular folk" who do the work in the trenches, and feel good that they are giving us money and time and expertise. I get that. I'll be nice.

And I'm going to be lying on my back, looking at the sky.