Every day brings something new… a random story which usually stems from a random person, place, thing or animal that somehow crosses my path. Most of the time things happen at work and occasionally shit happens in my personal life when I indeed choose to have one. Which these days that is a story in its own right that somehow weaves its way into every tale. Like when the bananas are way too ripe and brown but they're perfect for Banana Bread. That's how most things are in my life. In the end you cook up something delicious out of an otherwise disaster of a comedy of errors of the worst kind imaginable.
I come across so many interesting people and each of them comes with their own unique outlook, perspective, wisdom, experience and baggage of the spin the wheel variety. Most of them just take one giant bite out of my neck and suck the very life out of me at times. Vampires, the lot of them but once in a treasured while I connect with someone on my plane. Little gifts from the universe or karma coming back I'm not sure anymore but either way I'm appreciative of those moments. It gives me hope in a seemingly dying humanity. It makes all the rest of the unnecessary crap worth enduring and fighting through. Just when you think you can take no more…tomorrow brings a new day and inevitably something new that kicks yesterday's drama to the curb.
There are 300 million stories in the naked country and this one is mine.
-Kelly O'Brien, May 2008
