Remember Me? (Haiku)

Obliterated
Footprints on the beach of life
By the ebb and flow

We walk through our life
Our legacy a gravestone
Family recalls

The stones of our lives
Filling the cemeteries
Or ashes in urns

I wept a sad tear
For an old friend now enurned
Never forgotten

And so will I be
By my family and friends
Until they are dead

Trivia (Haiku)

Trivia is posted
Hoping it's good for someone
Take it at its worth

Into the Wilderness 2019-- Audition and Discard

Last year I did this and had mixed results.  The overall result was good but I think it could have been better with more discipline.  I am going to do it again this year with more resolve.  My idea is to get as close to isolation as possible; in other words eliminate external influences on my thinking.

The rules have been slightly modified but generally are the same:

1. Working, doing Voice-over auditions and/or rehearsals and performances of plays and films is fine.  Contact for the purpose of securing work is encouraged.
2. Socialization only in the response mode; i.e. initiating no casual contact but responding directly to contact when it's made.  This would also preclude prolonging the contact beyond that for which it was initiated.
3. No recreational electronics, including radio, television, and phonograph.
4. Telephone only to answer it and Email checked once per day with both telephone and Email usage according to Rule 1.
5. Reading , especially on acting work, is encouraged.
6. Writing thoughts and impressions, as much and as often as desired.  (Last year this was recognized as a distraction at times.)
7. No change indicated for eating habits.
8. Going out only to get groceries, necessities, to keep appointments, or to exercise and adhering to Rule 1 when out.
9. Physical exercise and artistic practice, such as singing or reciting, would be allowed to any extent, even going to the fitness center and golf courses; remembering Rule 1 when there.
10. Discard, without recrimination or remorse, anything deemed useless.

The themes of this foray into the wilderness are Audition and Discard.  Auditions refer to voice work, commercials and other voice-only jobs.  And after that is established with a series of successes, go ahead and pursue plays, movies, and other video work.

Discard is sorting out and purging belongings, such as books and files, tools and materials, clothes and accouterments.  The idea here is to reduce the clutter and it has the added benefit of being aware of what one has and where it is.

Construction, repair, and maintenance of whatever would be allowed; always in accordance with Rule 1.  The difficulty was filling the time with some sort of productive activity.

According to my rules, work defined as Voice over and acting is fine; and I can work, cook, bake, go out for necessities, exercise, shoot pool, play golf, or walk.  I can clean, fix, construct, discard, purge, sort, and donate to my heart's content.  I can think, and write to get thoughts on paper, but I realize that the important thoughts, the life changing thoughts, will be with me, written or not.