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Psssst.    Hey buddy...c'mere.  Let me tell you something...


You know, I have started everyday of my life with this list ...all these things to do.  Things for me. Things for my family. Things for strangers. Things for stories.

Stories.

So I start doing these things on my list, and on most days, I attack this list. I usually have an order I want to do it in....then some things happen.  And I get out of order. Then I spend the rest of the day trying to figure out how to get this thing, this list, back in order again. Cause I get to a point where the order just doesn't make sense.

Did I mention that I add things to this list all day long? The list really never ends.

Now, there are those magic days... that I just KILL IT. and I work non stop, and I feeeed on the success of one check mark after another. I am tearing through my life and having days so productive that no one else can possibly understand how much got done in that day...

Then I realize it was three or four days, and I just catnapped here and there. Basically worked 36 hour shifts, slept an hour and did it again.   Driven.

Then I sleep so peacefully for a day and I start over.

I will make the next list...it will take me a month.

And if I wasn't doing that list, I would be writing.  I would be creating this world inside my head, and I am not sure I would ever stop writing.   In that world, I never think of me.   Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, to some I appear self centered...maybe even narcissistic.   I really prefer to always think of others.   I study everything about others.

When I am writing, nothing else gets done.  It probably looks like I am doing nothing.  It must look that way, cause that is what I have always been told.    That I am doing nothing.  I have built an entire world, brick by brick, moment by moment, in my head, but if people don't see it, they think you did nothing.

So I do my list...and then none of the writing gets done.  The longer I go without writing, the harder it is to get it all out of my head and onto a piece of paper.  You see, I build the story in my head first.  I never STOP building the story.   So it gets sooo big, and I have to transfer it all to the keyboard, or the video or audio,  in the order that I built it, or I will lose something in the translation.

How do people think things are created?  

I have never been bored in my life, and I have never taken a day off.  

Have a great day and thank you for your time.
Mark Burkenbine

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The Burkenbine Tour

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When you cannot believe in you anymore, I will believe in you, for you. Enable. Aspire. A fools life is my life. In Nothing, I will find an Empire.--Mark Burkenbine, excerpt from Author and the Untimelys

New from Burkenbine Fabrications ...."IT" Vs. Wall. --The search for what sticks.

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Why are you here?

NOBODY reads my blogs.  NOBODY.   Why are you here?  WHO SENT YOU?   Damn terrorists?

Where are my manors?   Would you like.....A COOKIE?    Yeeees.   Eat them. Tasty they are.


You should sleep now. 

Indiana Belly Button

So, I wake up as I always seem to do.  Wake up , I mean.      Weird, isn't it?  We always seem to 'wake up'.  Fantastic engineering job or the bio engineered food?   Anyway...I wake up on daylight savings time morning with this incredible energy at 5 am..like I always do.  I could crank out a novel this morning, my head is so alive.     Then my wife , in her semi conscious state, looks at me and says" but your bellybutton does not like daylight savings time".

I realize this is true , I have been denying it.      This will change the way I go through life.

My bellybutton is like pre 2005 Indiana, or Arizona.  But I would rather use Indiana, cause they only have border issues with Ohio and it is just not that big a deal unless you went to college on the wrong side.

and she is like," my left boob, the one that likes you, it doesn't like daylight savings time either".  I said we can call it 'Arizona' and she was like,  "why can't it be Hawaii?"

I said that doesn't make any sense.  It can be Hawaii if it gets lopped off in surgery.   Even in abstract conversations, we have to maintain a sense of our surroundings.   Hawaii is part of our country , not our mainland.

So I am going to be starting my Childrens book explaining cancer.    This conversation could change the world.


My goodness people....have a good day

Mark Burkenbine