PDX

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here. My daily page views are down to zero. Nowhere to go but up. So let me throw out the latest news from Portland. I’ve started my job, and almost finished my first painting, which I’ll post soon. Work is ok. Newspapers and all offices are pretty much the same. The city of Portland is great. Lots of old brick buildings with fading ghost signs. I don’t know anybody here yet though so when KB isn’t visiting I’m on my own.

Yesterday I wandered around town a lot but the highlight of my day was watching the final episodes of Six Feet Under. I’d stopped watching that show for some reason so it was great to get back into it. I like the theme of real death. Anything real is an unexplored genre in tv and movies but writing shows around the theme of ordinary deaths and how people deal with that is interesting. Even when a pet dies your eyes are opened for a while to what is really important in life. When someone dies your world is instantly different in a way that you don’t want. When I lost my lost my last job my world changed but I didn’t want it back. I wanted the change and looked forward to each new day. When my dog died I wanted to turn back time and have him with me. But as the show says, I think, “everyone, everything, everywhere … ends” So that’s a kind of depressing thought but I like how it points out that we shouldn’t be afraid of anything because we’re only here a while. Then, we and all of our people come to an end. There’s much to think about there but mostly it gives me hope. As long as we haven’t come to an end we can still fight everyday. 

So I’ll file this under “Ramblings”. I just wanted to blog today because its Sunday and I’m taking a break from painting and drinking yet another cup of coffee, watching the beautiful people of Portland stroll by. I’ll stop rambling now and throw a random photo or something up with this post.