{"id":205,"date":"2003-12-05T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2003\/12\/the_gospel_according_to_travis.html"},"modified":"2003-12-05T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T00:21:00","slug":"the_gospel_according_to_travis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/05\/the_gospel_according_to_travis\/","title":{"rendered":"the gospel according to travis, weeza’s friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always good to have people in one’s life who have the insight and the balls to point out the obvious, if sometimes unpleasant, truth. Bonus points are given for doing so with humor and a modicum of grace – or at the very least, bourbon. My friend Travis is a wise man, and managed to point out some home truths to me after the hockey<\/a> last night. To wit:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. You have no job.<\/LI>\n
  2. You are writing a novel about relationships and dysfunction.<\/li>\n
  3. You spend a lot of time with your mom.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The conclusion: “If I didn’t know you as well as I do, I would put you down as a bad bet<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

    Fair point. Perspective is everything. But it’s not as grim as all that, and I’m not nearly as neurotic as I could be, considering the fact that I really am writing a book about relationships and dysfunction. I’m actually feeling pretty positive about things in general. Of course, this might be taken as further evidence that I’m not at all right in the head, but I of course prefer to interpret it otherwise.<\/p>\n

    Always possibility
    \nEvery moment you don’t think about it
    \nEvery moment you’re alive
    \nThe lines of your past and your future and your loves and your passions
    \nAre always intersecting
    \nEntwining<\/p>\n

    That thing that you feel is holding you back?
    \nLook again, it’s holding you up
    \nOnly stop straining against it
    \nIt is your heart.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    ‘Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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