If you would like to consider me for work as a writer, here are three samples of my work copied below. For specific genres that you require, please request other samples. What I offer you below is simply a glimpse at my creative capacity. Writing for me is almost like exhaling. My impulse to day dream about virtually anything seems as frequent as the rolling clouds in my tropical home, but after a spell of quietly reflecting within my own thought life, it seems must always write something as surely as some clouds must bring fresh rain. This often comes out in the form of lengthy emails, blogs or Facebook posts that I make on a daily basis. Given me any topic however, and I will dream my way into it and write something appropriate for you.
Thank you for your consideration,
Sky Thoth Coon
(1) MY EMAIL ART (This email was sent to a manager at a family friend's ranch who had wanted me to come early for my planned seasonal work in Wyoming helping out, which we hadn't expected that I would be able to do when we first met and discussed the work, but which, by surprise, I announced in this email that I was able to accomplish.)
Dear Lauren,
I am tweaking with our plans yet again this morning! Though I can't help myself but to seize the opportune moment, I hate to reveal so soon in our acquaintance with each other how much like my name sake (the sky) I tend to be, in how hard it is to pin down or predict my precise plans until the last possible moment when they are poised to pounce like mischievously surprising rain drops during a picnic on an otherwise pleasant day! I get no small helping of grief from the more phlegmatic members of my family for this excessively sanguine nature of mine, when, like Winnie the Pooh, all too many family members and friends find their feasts on the familiar scattered all over the floor like so many honey pots, just as they were beginning the fourth course of their meal in preparation for drifting off into the warm oblivion of hibernating in happy habits!
What can I say at these moments other than T-I-double-G-Rrrr as I scratch my head and wonder whether to apologize or to invite you to enjoy bouncing with me! Luckily though, in this instance, I am optimistic you will enjoy this particular bounce as quite favorable to your previously presented wishes.
So this then, is what is going on today. In my ever constant sense of dynamic opportunism that seems to guide my leaps from point A to B - like space shuttle launches ever on the look out for that perfect window of smooth sailing when the clouds part in just the right manner - so it is with me day, as it seems that everything may be coming together in just the right moment to enable me to pull off one of my personally relished, and all too characteristic, super-dooper-ally-ooper bounces, right away, today, accelerating and compressing into an instant earlier draw out plans and prospects that had been set to progress at a more leisurely pace. Oh my! Just what am I talking about here in paragraph upon paragraph of endless preamble!?!
This is what I propose to try to pull off today, and for which I would like aid from you in the form of supplying me with a mailing address that I can use (please also expect to possibly accommodate my friend Zal tonight in my room while I crash on my bed mats in the saloon or where ever):
1) It appears I am able to quit trucking permanently today and return the truck to company headquarters without penalty or adverse consequences.
2) It appears likely that my friend Zal my be able to transport me on a one way trip up to your ranch by himself this evening, leaving for his return to Salt Lake without me early in the morning.
3) If these two conditions prove to indeed work out today, then I will be coming up to the ranch not merely to visit but finally to stay and to give you the trigger's share of my energy beginning forthwith and posthaste for any and all work you have in mind with which to engage me.
I would like to fill out W4 form paperwork at the company today updating my address to your mailing address at the ranch, so if you could confirm your proper mailing address for me to use today at your earliest convenience, I shall try too pull off all the rest of my complex schemes and ideas today, of which I have only given you a glimpse, and we shall soon see the results of these plans tonight!
Much obliged to you and in fondness of you for your expected good humor as always,
Rapidly in route,
Sky
(2) MY BLOGGER REFLECTIONS:
Monday, December 3, 2012
El Regreso (Film)
Dear Friends,
Last night I saw the best movie of my life. Add this to Tom Shadyac's best documentary "I AM," and I now have the social vision that will carry me forward for the rest of my life. You can watch the movie with English subtitles if you don't understand Costa Rican Spanish. Here is the link:
http://www.elregresodvd.com/elregresodvd/
The core message of the movie is that no matter what, we are forever tied together with our family and friends with whom we have shared large chapters of our lives. And this is not just the core message of the movie, it is actually the core element of the entire Costa Rican culture. We can say it all in one word in Spanish:
"Atados"
Translate it, and it just means "tied" in English, but in Costa Rica this little word means so much more. As the movie teaches:
We are only "whole" because we are "tied."
Yours truly! in a whole new light,
Sky
MY FACEBOOK POSTING:
So dear friends, if I come from Fruits, Nuts, Hippies, Yankees and other Liberals, having been born in California, raised in Oregon, and educated on the East Coast, what outcome should you really expect in the end from me? Will it likely be more creative or more conservative? Will it be contemporary, classic, a combination of both, or utterly confounding to all such categorization? What does the constellation of collective past experiences point to?
It is my personal policy to worship the unknowable God of the unknown. Does that make me a Toaist?
I told some of my new Episcopal friends yesterday who were reaching out to serve that they inspired me with how open minded, open hearted, and open handed they were.
Like water, I will always find my way to such open oceans which is also why (yes, you were right dear Aristotle, in your book Politics), my people and my soul come from Costal lands, and that is why I now live where I belong in Costa Rica.
Were you too born to sail under the the starlight? We all have our place and there is ultimately a place for all of us. Life is a stage... We all have our entrances and our exits. Some of us move slowly like heavy earth; some of us move quickly like supple water. Some if us are light like air. Some of us burn hot like fire.
Listen to master Sun Tzu and Socrates. Let us know ourselves first and them others, truly, for who we all are. Look, look and look again through each and every lens.
Each and every paradigm catches a new shrewd of the truth of life and brings us a new piece of the puzzle. There is truth in all things, but not all things are truth.
Blur the lines in the map below, so you can see better. The feel of life is painted in water colors. The lines are never firm.
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