May 03, 2008 - Terre Haute IN
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Google Maps is not always right
Maybe I'll begin calling it Goofle Maps, the typo I just made. Today I found for the second time on my way back east that Google has some Wal-Marts located incorrectly on their map. This time they missed by 10 miles, placing Wal-Mart's Terre Haute store about 5 miles north of I-70 rather than 5 miles south of I-70 which I think is correct. But I don't know for sure - I gave up the search and settled in at the local Cracker Barrel for the night.
Night camp:
Cracker Barrel Restaurant parking lot, Terre Haute, Indiana
Give it, Give it All, Give it Now
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.