So, it turns out, if you want to do something, or need something done, sometimes the best way to do it is to actually do it. How weird…
Here’s a new video on the Point Mugu Missile Park, in beautiful Port Hueneme, California.
My wife did the camera work while I did the yammering. It’s such a tiny little museum, you can’t make an epically long video about it! But it was great fun.
This California Air Museums project is both a lot of work and great fun. It rather encompasses all of the things that I like to do, beyond sleep in and enjoy a bagel and a cup of coffee with my lovely wife on a weekend morning out on the patio.
There’s a writer’s story in all of this, and that’s why I’m sharing it with you.
I’ve always felt that a writer writes. A writer who dreams of writing isn’t a writer. That’s a dreamer.
My mom and dad were great parents, and we had a great growing up. After he passed, I was cleaning out my dad’s closet and found a gorgeous half-painted painting.
It was one of those Southwestern style jobs, with flat-bottomed clouds and zig-zag lightning that were so popular in the 1940’s. Beautiful colors scrolled across half of the canvas. Only half. The other half was penciled in.
He had put the painting aside to raises his kids, and never quite got back to it. Life got in the way.
That painting absolutely broke my heart.
And it drove home to me the point that if you want to do it, you better go do it. Nobody but you is going to live your dream.
So, if you’re sitting on the fence, get off the fence. Just get off the fence and go do it.
Oh, and don’t forget to watch my video first!
John D Reinhart 