just keep...

your pen moving, just keep your pen moving. that is what I read I don't know  12 or 13 years ago and it has stuck with me ever since. even as the pen was replaced by the screen and the keyboard but even then it holds true. just keep moving. just keep swimming. just keep swimming and letting your mind rip and roar and  get rip roarin so that you're running nekkid through the night across a roaring campfire somewhere in the woods just east of freshwater bay and it's ok because the kids are asleep and nobody cares and you've had enough whiskey to drink and what does it matter and it's just a body and it's dark and so what, live a little, for crying out loud because what are you going to tell your grandkids anyway? that you stayed up late playing X-box? or that you did the dishes on time each night? or that you walked the dogs like you were supposed to? that's all well and good but you've also got to live. you've also got to stretch yourself, challenge yourself, remember yourself and whatever it is that floats your boat and gets your goat  and for me it's not just streaking it's peaking it's going berserking it's dancing it's flinging my hair to and fro and wow-ing, it's stunning people with zingers and silly one liners and strumming the cheesiest, sentimentalyist song that ever was-iest and not batting an eyelash over it, it's getting a bad haircut and somehow making more than the best of it, it's forgetting about the sunscreen because ultimately your skin will get used to it and skin cancer from polymers in sunscreen is probably worse for you in the long run, and just keep writing and just keep writing and what's more important to me than standing still is just being with yourself and seeing what oozes out and not being afraid to look it squarely in the face and stand tall and stand your ground and grow peaceful with it and find a way to find yourself in it and forgive yourself in it and be gentle with yourself with it and give the love back even when the love isn't coming your way because that's the only way the love will ever come so you better start giving it right now and then and later, too.