Typing this while Gladiator plays in the background. I do not think you can go to the Colosseum and not have an immediate hankering for this film. Yes, it got many things wrong, but it got things right too. That is how fiction works. It is about the idea of who we are and who we want to become. I look forward to creating more fiction that honors that idea and honors what it means to be a writer. I have not fully done that in my writings as of yet, but I am not yet 50 and have so much more to give.
In the meanwhile I am seeing this wide world I often write of. I see it and love and appreciate it. Tonight I am in London and tomorrow I will be home, happy that I’ve spent so much time abroad and learned so much more from the experience than I ever expected.
Some Thoughts:
- I slept through the Giants game, but I woke up to a win!
- Watched Love Actually again. Quite wonderful. It reaffirms my thoughts of love and romance in the xmas holiday. Less than a week to go until Xmas is upon us!