Happy Halloween

By
Marc Olmsted
on October 31, 2008 7:13 AM | | Comments (1)

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My love of old cemeteries serves me well this Halloween, two of these shots are from the Winthrop cemetery in Provincetown. It's so easy to imagine clusters of mourning family members around these old tombstones, which commemorate more often than not the deaths of loved ones in their prime. ( We forget how extraordinarily recent, historically, a long life expectancy is.)  Each set of tombstones tells a novel.  There are many children, first wives dead in childbirth, widows with husbands who never came home from the sea... T'was a hard life.  No one made it to 50 without experiencing scores of losses.

Speaking of novels, I finally got the first paragraph out of the next big work yesterday. I think it's going to be a novella, but it might be full-length. What I need to concentrate on is not the finish line, but, just as I have with the blog, gettting something written every day.  It's amazing how centered and happy I am in all areas of my life when I write every day. I feel like I'm fulfilling my purpose on this planet.

Yesterday I got to tell my story at a meeting in a recovery house, which made for a rowdy but rapt audience. I've done this many times, but never did the words come out of my mouth just as I'd hoped.  It's a marvelous experience, to really feel like you were able to share some stuff that might actually help someone stay sober another day. (And I was funny. I LOVE being funny,)

Happy Halloween.  I, for one, will be going to the movies.

MCO 2008

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By rod on October 31, 2008 7:47 AM

happy all souls eve... a movie sounds fun...

i used to love to picnic in cemetaries. much much atmosphere.
alltime favorite lunch- pere lachaise in paris next ot oscar wilde's tombstone.

btw-michael got in touch with me-
thank you.