too serious
and big
and important
i am
too urgent
and dire
it’s dissonance
i got
the smallest speck
not even a pebble in the ocean
not even a pinhead in a haystack
not even a millisecond
in a twenty-four hour day
not even enough to ever
bring it up again
especially in polite company
i’m only a speck.
Pete Armetta 
You’ll never be “only a speck” 🙂
Thanks haha we all do often make too big of a deal out of things, don’t we? I’m really working hard on keeping it light! 🙂
Yeah, me too 🙂
Oh stop that. I’m not liking this.
And you dude like usual.
You didn’t hear anything on your short list?
I lost. It sucked. They gave me a cheque for a thousand bucks, I don’t even want to cash it. Now I’m going to do better.
A check? Yes, please do better. It’s still an honor. 🙂
It’s spelled “cheque” dude. You Americans!
I don’t really care for the honour, to be honest (I know that sounds bad, but it’s how I feel), I care about writing better and better and better until my head pops from the exertion. I’m halfways there, I figure. Got so much to say. I figure you know that feeling well.
haha it is so NOT spelled “cheque” wtf is all that?
I know exactly how you feel, me too. But it is an honor because a panel deliberately chose you out of however many others. That rocks!
I’ve been happy to be short listed but it’s a harrowing experience.
Dude, that’s how we spell it!
Yeah I know it’s an honour and I don’t want to sound ungrateful. But I wrote that story in an hour in a coffee shop and submitted it on a lark. I can do way better, I know I can. If anything, the experience made me think about actually getting off my ass and being serious about things. I love to write (I know you do too), may as well actually adopt the label instead of calling it a hobby all the time.
“instead of calling it a hobby” yes PLEASE.
Knowing you have better in your is what it’s all about. I drive myself pretty hard and it’s worth it.
I know. Just still in that corporate dementia world that confuses the value of what really matters. I figure you’ve been through that and actually escaped.
You know what matters.
Honor.
And, you, my Friend, Are a “Man of Honor” – (Plus, the Many of us, your Charlottesville Friends & Neighbors, know you as Much More than a ‘Speck’)!
We’re all specks! 🙂