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What Are You Trying to Say?

Chris Lowry

May 08, 2024

I got caught again.

I drive with the radio off and any time someone hops into my truck, they ask about it.

My kids think it’s weird.

Others think I’m weird.

Maybe I am.

But I like to think.

Sometimes all the noise in the world, the chattering heads on the radio, the sometimes great lyrics songwriters can make, all it if combines and conspires to block out my own thoughts.

I can solve world problems in silence.

I can plot and outline and consider.

I can plan and pray and do a hundred other things, including dredging up old songs with misheard lyrics that stick tight as earworms.

With a rebel yell, I cry more more more.

I like to create big problems just so I can think of solutions.

How to cure the latest Crisis.

How to make money fast.

How to solve world hunger.

I get mad at politicians because they are all crooks.

I think about that too.

And then I get home and take action.

I write Congress.

I write CEO’s.

I tweet and tag.

I send letters to the Mayor and to the Governor.

I try to offer solutions.

Sometimes they respond.

But they never listen.

Their radio is probably too loud.

I do listen to music when I write though.

The volume is so low, it’s like white noise in the background, just enough to drown out the sound of cars driving by, or the neighbors mowing or planes flying overhead.

None of those really disturb me, but maybe if I like music when I write and silence when I think, it means I don’t think when I’m writing?!?

What I do think about is you though.

I hope you’re well.

I hope you’re safe.

And you’re thinking about all this noise going on in the world right now and how to plan your two or three hour escape with something good to read and something cold to drink.

Did you read IMPERIUM Chapter One?

Chapter TWO is posted today.

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