{"id":10710,"date":"2025-01-12T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=10710"},"modified":"2025-01-12T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:23:22","slug":"you-never-can-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=10710","title":{"rendered":"You Never Can Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My relationship with writing is completely different. I used to write with all sorts of bullshit adjectives and cryptic words, intentionally leaving out personal identifiable details like names, hair color, eye color, and alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I prefer clarity over poetry; story over grammar; substance over form. I have nothing to hide; nothing to take; nothing to want. There&#8217;s nothing more that could be done to me that hasn&#8217;t already been done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who think otherwise, those poor lost souls who still think in terms of reputation, who still believe in things like magic and legacy, who can&#8217;t help but worry what others think, don&#8217;t forget what Bob Dylan said:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"364\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-12-at-8.14.13\u202fAM-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-12-at-8.14.13\u202fAM-2.png 364w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-12-at-8.14.13\u202fAM-2-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/arlighma.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bob Dylan; &#8216;It&#8217;s Alright, Ma (I&#8217;m Only Bleeding)&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m thoroughly convinced people who write with dense poetic flare have nothing worthwhile to write, so they put lipstick on their mundane pig of a story, when they&#8217;re not plagiarizing someone else&#8217;s ideas or words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could never be a regular reader of fiction. Fiction makes absolutely no fucking sense to me. Reality interests me. Real people doing real things; with real struggles, with real love affairs, and with a real day of death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These thoughts are taking me back to some old familiar stories. Viktor E. Frankl&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl\/dp\/0807014273\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PC117K5O1XMS&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.phUc2adLzv8edJKcJfYGiYmYQA_wfSFAPr6oNqdjFnbn4rEd6PuXk5GrZlD0GOSOOezVFN0nkkZqPHiFKaxZ2irTUPSy2S_DeOzk8Xpyfz6bwYZADCI0RLWWYU3bR-jn6Ig6LwI9pAmCwXml2do6XF_s5v9ORZ07ziTspZiVBRi69bnN9I3SiEcDDXRNOjq61AX9yDZPVt8IiiSV8h9XCbigoqSiZMeT-s_mixt6qck.aStrTHDVaocezYlp1v2vbP4cVCsPJLZl7O0qe7FvJFw&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=victor+frankl+man%27s+search+for+meaning&amp;qid=1736700842&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=victo+frankl%2Cstripbooks%2C174&amp;sr=1-1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl\/dp\/0807014273\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PC117K5O1XMS&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.phUc2adLzv8edJKcJfYGiYmYQA_wfSFAPr6oNqdjFnbn4rEd6PuXk5GrZlD0GOSOOezVFN0nkkZqPHiFKaxZ2irTUPSy2S_DeOzk8Xpyfz6bwYZADCI0RLWWYU3bR-jn6Ig6LwI9pAmCwXml2do6XF_s5v9ORZ07ziTspZiVBRi69bnN9I3SiEcDDXRNOjq61AX9yDZPVt8IiiSV8h9XCbigoqSiZMeT-s_mixt6qck.aStrTHDVaocezYlp1v2vbP4cVCsPJLZl7O0qe7FvJFw&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=victor+frankl+man%27s+search+for+meaning&amp;qid=1736700842&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=victo+frankl%2Cstripbooks%2C174&amp;sr=1-1\">Man&#8217;s Search For Meaning<\/a>&#8221; and whatever happened to my copy of William H. Meehan&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Portrait-Janitor-Autobiography-William-Meehan\/dp\/1732485909\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Portrait-Janitor-Autobiography-William-Meehan\/dp\/1732485909\">Portrait Of A Janitor: A Poetic Autobiography<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8212;ooOoo&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a lot of time this morning. I&#8217;m taking a break to write a few things, but I have so much to write about these daze. Change is coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also made a decision to go back to the French Quarter Festival this year. It&#8217;s been too long, and I never liked the way things ended between us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying the FQF is gonna be a regular thing again. It will never be the same, and I liked the FQF more when it was a smaller local event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, I really enjoyed Halloween in the French Quarter, and I&#8217;d rather make Halloween or Thanksgiving a new regular annual trip to NOLA.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"796\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9940-796x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9940-796x1024.jpeg 796w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9940-233x300.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9940-768x988.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9940-1194x1536.jpeg 1194w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9940-1592x2048.jpeg 1592w, https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9940-scaled.jpeg 1990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/chnage.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheryl Crow; &#8216;A Change Would Do You Good&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My relationship with writing is completely different. I used to write with all sorts of bullshit adjectives and cryptic words, intentionally leaving out personal identifiable details like names, hair color, eye color, and alike. Now, I prefer clarity over poetry; story over grammar; substance over form. I have nothing to hide; nothing to take; nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/?p=10710\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Never Can Tell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2620,1589,2617,16,19,2552,430],"class_list":["post-10710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-a-change-would-do-you-good","tag-bob-dylan","tag-its-alright-ma","tag-neuroticattorney","tag-neuroticattorney-com","tag-ramblings","tag-sheryl-crow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10710"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}