The Storm Raven Returns...

[Storm Raven]

Thank you for your replies,

 

When I took driver's education in high school, class started in the dead of winter, January in the state of Kansas. The wind whips down from the northern Plains, dropping the temperatures into the negative 30s. The only state I know of with a higher your round relative humidity index is Florida. So it's not just cold, its wet cold, and wet cold is the worst cold there is in my experience. I remember how happy I was at 16, when my father bought me the same winter parka that the Navy Seaman use on icebreakers, in the far north of the Atlantic.

 

So when I learned to drive. It was on snow, ice, and a special treat, called black ice. The tires on vehicle in those weather conditions, are rarely in contact with the asphalt. In fact, many accidents occur when the tire actually comes into contact with the asphalt. This is because a tire that has been happily spinning through the snow suddenly finds traction! The tire finding traction on the asphalt can throw a car out of control very quickly. It's the one time of year, when traction is not necessarily a good thing.

 

Most of the time, in those weather conditions. The tires are almost always in contact with one kind of ice or another. Often in Kansas. It would freeze, melt, freeze, melt, freeze, melt until you had a layered cake of ice and snow. Oh how my heart warms, at the thought of driving in those conditions! Those were the conditions I learned to drive on. Today, I would not exchange, learning to drive in those conditions for any other kind. Nor would I if I had any choice, ever drive on them again.

 

I learned to experience something I later began to call "the controlled slide." You're not really in control of the vehicle. So much as you are the rate of the slide. Various road conditions can change the slide factor. So you must be quick to adapt your rate of slide to the surfaces you are driving on. My driving instructor considered it important that we learned to drive in reverse, in high speeds, under these conditions. It's a miracle. We all lived through the experience. Although a few of us did not stay entirely on the road. The strange thing is, at that age. You have no fear. So my memories are of having a great time learning to drive.

 

Later on in life, those experiences helped me to quickly adapt to the controlled slide through the air of an airplane. Learning to pilot a plane, was one of the most exciting experiences I ever enjoyed. When that plane is in the air, you can control only the speed and the surfaces of the plane in what is basically a battle to the death with gravity. Once you get used to it, the hardest part is getting off the ground. The rest of it is constantly making minor adjustments to the speed and surfaces, which control your slide through the air.

 

What does this have to do with the topic? Most of my experience in life has been in the form of business communications. For those of you who do not all ready know this, creative writing is not encouraged in business communications. (Many of you will recognize that last sentence as a very funny one, but true.)

 

I think what you're telling me is that what I was experiencing was a slide. I started out going in one direction, and then the story slid off an entirely different one, and felt as if, the story was beginning to write itself. Based on the majority of my writing experience, the writing was out of control. Not a good thing in a lot of situations, but maybe not a bad thing, in a creative writing situation.

 

Now, I will need your help, with interpretation. If I have interpreted what you have said, correctly, it's okay to let go and let the story write itself. You never know where it might take you. If you don't like where it goes, you can always gently bring it back, by controlling the slide.

 

This makes sense to me; but does it make sense to you? Have I understood what you have said, correctly?

 

I eagerly await your replies, as the story must go on, one way or another.

 

Storm Raven

[LHammonds]

Yep

[Sin911]

Yep

I second that :)

[jaosals42]

Welcome back! Sorry I'm a little late, but blame that on school. :wacko:

 

Hope Nexus is as good now as it was back when you first joined! :thumbsup:

[LHammonds]

Yep

I second that :)

I third that that.

[worm82075]

I've read your entire return thread as well as some other posts since your return. You are truly an extraordinary human being and from a heart that was touched then and now please except my most humblest of apologies for differences of then and know that now holds absolutly no malice for perceived past transgressions.

 

You are a decent person and a positive member of this community and I would certainly be remiss if things were left as they are. I have given little thought to the circumstances of that fateful day but have thought many times upon the pure of heart gestures that were made first. I

would be honored if you would accept my friendship once more.

 

With your permission I would like to add your sites to my affiliates and perhaps make a donation to support them(if you have a way to receive them from PayPal). I have little doubt that you and yours will continue to do great things for our community and if any of the publicly offered services of the Wormhole can help you achieve your goals please feel free to request them.

 

No expectations on my part though, I just feel that you deserve acknowledgment for what you have brought and continue to bring to the community, that is offered freely regardless of reciprocation. You have my respect whether or not I have yours and my friendship is yours for the taking.

 

May we all enjoy this community for many years and marvel at the things to come with each new evolution.

 

Wishing you all the best,

Worm

[LHammonds]

I must have missed something big but then again, that happens a lot to me. Oh well.

 

I fourth what the other guy said in a prior post.

 

LHammonds

[Storm Raven]

Well, it would appear that the votes are in and a motion has been passed... I will continue this brazen series. Therefore, at the request of someone who I am a fan of, my next submission will be a revisiting of, "The Counting Conundrum." However, as I am still in the process of rewriting it (my hope is to make it much funnier) look for it here soon. As well as other chapters, to this ongoing story.

 

Slip Sliding Away!

 

*the old man laughs out loud*.

 

Storm Raven

[buddah]

But, how did you know that I laughed ? ? ? ?

[TheTerminator2004]

STOOOOORRRM!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!! :D :D :D :D

 

Welcome back! It's great to see you around again :)