First Cup of Coffee – December 6, 2024

I’m finishing A ROSE IN THE MIRROR today!! On story structure, beats, and how this strange book has been spot-on. Also, the long-game, how a writing career can go wrong and instead shooting for a sustainable life as an author.

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - December 6, 2024

December 06, 2024

Jeffe Kennedy

I'm finishing A ROSE IN THE MIRROR today!! On story structure, beats, and how this strange book has been spot-on. Also, the long-game, how a writing career can go wrong and instead shooting for a sustainable life as an author.

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First Cup of Coffee – July 5, 2021

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 5, 2021

July 05, 2021

Jeffe Kennedy

On the majesty of nature and her omens, a peculiar episode with my green man and woman, and how I learned from teaching Tai Chi that it's a bad idea to have family members edit your writing.

Minon Faget is here (https://www.mignonfaget.com/).

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First Cup of Coffee – January 24, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - January 24, 2020

January 24, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Talking a bit about my excellent bobcat sighting. I'm also talking a bit about missing stairs and how we handle bad actors in our community, and my thoughts on Picard! Verdict: YUMMY.

The shows I mention are Star Trek: Picard (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8806524/) and Sex Education (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7767422/)

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The Illusion of Safety

A lot of people are afraid to fly.

My mother-in-law has never set foot on a commerical airplane. Other people will get on the plane, but medicate themselves to do it. It’s less a fear of flying than a fear of crashing, really. On an airplane, one gives up total control to someone else. You’re strapped in, encased in a device that hurtles you to another place and spits you out again. Even if you understand the physics, it still seems wrong. It’s hard to know which are good sounds and which are bad. (I’ve been assured that I’m better off NOT being able to recognize the errors and close calls.) And when the great winds, toss you around, you’re ironically happy the ground is still so far away and not close enough to dash up against.

But really, this lack of control is the norm; being on an airplane just makes it more obvious.

We go through life seeking the illusion of safety. We follow the rules, obey the traffic laws, make smart decisions about where to walk at night. But the universe is a random place and none of us know when our thread will be snipped.

I think about this when I feel superstitious. Ill omens like cancelled flights and bad weather make me pause, make me wonder if I’m fighting fate. When I’m tossed around in the sky or, worse, as the runway rapidly approaches, I wonder if this will be my time. Forever writing my own life story, I assemble the foreshadowing events. And then remind myself that, in that case, I wouldn’t be there to write the worst part, the suffering part.

I’m oddly comforted by that and snooze while the plane rocks me.