For the few of you who follow the plight of our protagonist (as he moves through the mine field of life with grace and purpose - and other times stumbles and scrapes knees), you know from yesterday’s post that I take great inspiration from others that have braved a similar path. I listen closely to music hoping to find commonality in the melody to mood connection, hear the written word and close my eyes to better visualize reality. In a word, I am easily inspired by a ripe sentence, a virtuosic minor scale or a well executed chase scene. To keep from being totally driven by pop culture, I try to spend equal amounts of time among the trees, waterways and forests. For the same reasons.
Yesterday when I spoke of the phraseology of Chuck Palahniuk alongside the life changing prose of Dan Millman, a follow on thought gave me a few moments of peace as I walked along the rocky shoreline that I share with gulls, ducks, Canadian Honkers, coyotes, seals and eagles. I can hear them right now as I sit in my makeshift office, spring allowing the French doors to remain open. CP in Doomed, uses a tool called geographical alliteration to illustrate the point of his central characters being rich, famous and well traveled. So I started doing the same, with the caveat that at least one of the three cities, towns, states or countries must have visited by your obedient servant. Let’s try.
- Alabama, Argentina, Alps.
- Bristol, Brewster, Birmingham.
- Culver City, Calgary, Cleveland.
- Dover, Denver, Donner Pass.
- El Paso, Edinburgh, East Berlin.
- Fargo, Florence, Finland.
- Ghent, Gutenberg, Gunnison.
- Hilo, Hanoi, Henderson.
- Inglewood, Iceland, Idlewild.
- Jamestown, Johannesburg, Jakarta.
- Kenya, Kansas City, Kohl.
- Latvia, Laos, Liberty Bell.
- Memphis, Mogadishu, Mosul.
- Normandy, Nice, National City.
- Oslo, Organdy, Oman.
- Panama, Puerto Rico, Peru.
- Queensland, Quintana Roo, Queens,
- Rutland, Romania, Rockville,
- Sacramento, San Gimignano, Sorrento,
- Tasmania, Toulouse, Tripoli,
- Uganda, Union Gap, Upper Jay.
- Virgin Islands, Victoria, Vernal.
- Westchester, Winchester, Worcester.
- Xai-Xai, Xi’an, Xalapa*
- Yemen, Yelm, Yankton.
- Zamboanga City, Zaragoza, Zagreb*
And I will leave you with this from Dr. Suess:
Be who you are and say what you feel,
those who mind don’t matter,
and those who matter don’t mind.
* The X's and Z's are tough ones.
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