FollowLike so many I watched President Obama sign the health reform on Tuesday at 11:23am. No matter how this gets sliced in the cold cuts slicer (you know, salami, turkey, pot roast, chicken) this was a bold and historic, long overdue (Teddy Roosevelt tried) move. Since my independence as a voter(trying to avoid rice fields of Southeast Asia) I’m always amazed owing to the sophistication and maturity of our planetary evolution, how only Democrats were there at the signing just like Republicans fail to applaud during the President’s State of the Union.(one hell of a line down the middle of room). Human nature.
Thirty years ago I became an eyeglass salesman (and eventually a regional manager, travelling chunks of geography).You meet a lot of people on the way up before the fall down. Ed Norton said something similar to Ralph. Thinking about health reform, the pursuit of happiness, knowledge and truth (American way, Clark Kent) I did a little introspective tip toe thru optical tulips these last few days, instead of doing a liter of chilled prune juice. Yes, the purging of decades of thought. Thought is the key word, with all its permutations, meanings and shortcomings. Reasoning I must be one of a rarified breed of optical industry persona to have a written novel, going as far as graphically extolling the virtues of independent Eye Care professionals(in my early Bolshevik(not really now, just teasing) days as a Pharmacist, I did participate rather actively in the formation of one of the first professional unions, to protect the rights of independent Pharmacists). Now, going through colonic digestion process, I would’ve thought(there’s the word again) that legions of Eye Care professionals would be curious, possessed of rugged individualistic thought, like why Howard Stern gets all those listeners; they just wanted to hear(see) what he had to say.
One makes friends and influences people in a thirty year career, especially if one travels all over the country. In December, friends helped me by writing in their newsletters sent to over 11,000 pairs of optical industry eyes that Calvin Schwartz (optical sales rep) had his first novel, ‘Vichy Water’ published. The pursuit of knowledge. Broadening horizons. Cerebral thirst. Human nature. Life’s first strategy.
On Saturday and Sunday past, I attended for the 30th time Vision Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. A few things for the diary. A strange foreigner approached; he knew me from years ago and would I like to invest with him in medical marijuana dispensaries when it’s legal in New Jersey. Confessional; visions of fast food Marijuana drive thru, fish sandwiches, pipes and paper and Bora Bora. The other diary entry. I bumped into an optical journalist who knew I wrote a novel. The pursuit of knowledge. Broadening horizons. Cerebral thirst. Human nature. And the number zero on his credentials. Life’s first strategy for a member of the fourth estate.
What does this all mean to a novelist? Novel number three solidified. A futuristic journey with Dorothy and Toto(I’ve since fallen in love with the breed, Cairn Terrier) When all pursuit goes, what kind of erector set do we give the kids at holiday time? What they deserve. Thanks, George.
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Comment by BipcriniAnise — April 27, 2010 @ 9:53 am