when peace and contentment get boring

go looking for new dragons

Aloha dear reader.

Welcome to summer.

How are things?

Here, they are fine.

Perhaps a little too fine.

Aside from worries about aging dogs, parents and my Nanny, I’m relatively content.

The sun is shining.

I’m eating well, getting lots of exercise and I fall asleep with a free mind

I’ve been doing work that I’m proud of.

My kids?

They’re through a few hoops and over some humps.

Life is bereft of drama.

So dear reader, I think it’s now time for me to start using cocaine.

I know what you’re thinking:

Seriously?

Seriously.

I mean how better to throw a fucking monkey wrench into the peace and contentment that I’ve been experiencing lately.

According to Northrop Frye, summer is the time of full bloom, of maximum power - a time of adventure and conquest. Days are longer and heros, facing a defined evil are capable of overcoming the odds and completing great quests.

But ya know what?

It feels like the big quests have been completed.

The dragons have been slain.

Meow?

Meow it feels like a time of harvesting all tha…