Thoughtnami™

 I don't know how much time I have left on this small blue rock. None of us do, really.  I hope it's a long time, but today's not promised. I know they say tomorrow's not promised either, but you have to take it one day at a time, you know?  I just hope I made a good impression on folks in the end. I want to live a life where people will remember me fondly. I want folks to look back at how I treated them & others rather than what I've made or created, but if people dig what I did, that'd be pretty cool too.  I want people to think of me and say, "Hey, that Jeff Harris was a pretty cool dude." I'm just trying to be a decent person in this life.  I think I'm doing okay.  Some days... some nights, I feel I'm not doing enough. Sometimes, I think I'm just overthinking everything. I just know one thing. I want to create stuff that people will like. Stories, art, ideas... life's a canvas. Granted, it's a very expensive canvas, but ...

Over the next few weeks, I'm presenting Quick Waves, where I talk about a few spurts of thought that come to mind that I would talk about at length, but since I'm in the middle of totally revamping The X Bridge (it's not just a facelift, cats and kittens), I could only write small bytes. Here comes something: - How come I didn't know that Elmore Leonard wrote a CHILDREN'S book? The guy behind Out of Sight , Rum Punch , Get Shorty , 52 Pickup , 3:10 To Yuma , and countless novels wrote A Coyote's In The House , a great story about a ravenous yet slick coyote named Antwan and a pampered, retired German shepherd actor named Buddy, who decide to switch lives. A pretty damned good book at any age (and probably the first published instance of the correct use of the word "bitch," a female canine), so pick it up. And this seems like something that could easily translate to animation. The old Disney, before they got preoccupied with teen sexpots and computer an...