Lefty Dreams

Astroland Park at sunrise

I dreamt of being back in New York last night. I was walking around Manhattan and feeling the way I used to when I was in my 20s. When I first left NYC, I dreamt about it every night. Eventually the dreams stopped happening every night, but it's always memorable when I dream about NYC now. It's like that heart filling feeling of being home, where everything is familiar and I know my way around. I can't even recall having any memorable dreams of Louisville. This place is still a foreign land and I doubt that I'll ever truly love it here. In my waking dreams, I always wish I could go back to Brooklyn and be amongst the real people, instead of the fakers who pass for humans here.
I had two spots of happy news today. I got an email from my friend Annie, who just got reconstructive surgery after a double mastectomy. She is healing and I'm so glad that it seems like the worst is behind her now. They got all the cancer and hopefully this will be it for surgeries. I wish I could go visit her in Maui, but I just can't afford it financially, nor do I think I could leave my cat in someone's care... I really hope to see her again sometime soon. In my heart, I wish I could go visit all of my friends around the country.
The other cool thing that happened is I was Tweeted by one of my favorite lefties, actor Luis Guzman. He was asking for people to Tweet their hometown pride and I Tweeted Brooklyn Pride. He said of course Brooklyn Pride. I love being able to follow my favorite lefties. I just found out that Jason Sudeikis is lefty and I wish he was on Twitter.
I suppose all I can do for now is dream of Brooklyn and dream of a better life. I know things are bad for a lot of people now and I have it better than most. I hope with all my heart that I get to go back to NYC someday soon. Besides craving the bagels and pizza and diner food, I miss the craziness of it all--the crowds, the subway, the noise. I still miss you and love you, NYC. You'll always be in my heart. 

Lefty Gets Social

I've joined Twitter and Facebook in hopes of connecting with more like minded lefties. Since deciding that a left handers museum is the thing I'd like to create for the world, I've been wondering just how to start. I've been following all the power lefties on Twitter, which has been somewhat inspiring. I've been watching Oprah's LifeClass and participating in that somewhat. I've liked all the left handed things there are to like on Facebook. So far, I like Twitter much more than Facebook. Although Facebook has allowed me to connect with some friends I haven't seen or spoken to in years, I like the quick pace of Twitter. It almost seems more satisfying to interact and socialize there. Maybe Facebook will be better when I have more friends there. 
I guess I feel like there has to be more I can be doing to get support for the museum. I was thinking of starting Left Handers History Month, and making it the month of April, to mark the birth of Leonardo. In my research, I have not found that such a history month exists, so why shouldn't I start one?
I've connected with another lefty-obsessed person on Twitter. His name is Rik Smits and he wrote a book about lefties. Rik Smit's book He also has a web site dedicated to lefty history and his studies. Rik Smit's site
The only problem is that he Tweets in Dutch...
Well, maybe I'll try posting to my blog more often and sharing the links. I guess it can't hurt to try...

Miss Me?

Of course not, because I have no followers and no one loves me. Everybody hates me. I'm down in the garden eating worms... Oh well. I'm on Twitter now, too. Not that anyone cares, but I'm there now @Flowers4Leda. I'm doing important things, like promoting my museum idea and following a lot of left handed famous/wealthy people, who I hope will help me build my museum. My first four followers were porn stars, okay? I know, it just means they jump on anyone who's new to Twitter in hopes that we'll click on their porn vids. Well, you can follow me if you care to. I don't care. Really, I don't. I could care less. I've got more important things to do than caring about whether people follow my Tweets. Like right now, I have to go watch some old reruns of AbFab, a show created, written by, and acted in by fabulous lefties... But you don't care, do you...?

Power lefties quickie

I've been meaning to write a new power lefties post for a while. Three power lefties in the music biz who I admire (well, I admire two of them--you can guess which two) are Eminem, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. They're also doing their thing using communication. I'm finding that to be a common thread, and I'm finding some of their music/videos to be a huge inspiration for my own communication education. Over this holiday weekend, I plan to study hard and try to glean from their work--I need inspiration. I've gotta get on with this whole thing...

More on Power Lefties

I'm sure everyone has an opinion about the Jay Leno/NBC/Conan O'Brien debacle. Leno is a power lefty, and again, like most power lefties, he used communication to get there. I find it so interesting that Leno was able to win back The Tonight Show, and I just wish I knew more about all of the behind the scenes stuff. If you look at the three power lefties I blogged about back in November, they've all had similar types of power struggles, and all have faced great PR nightmares. Of course, Bill Gates had a lot of problems with Microsoft, including huge lawsuits and being made to seem like the Darth Vader of computer software. Oprah Winfrey has faced every kind of adversity you can think of, including huge media scandals. Michael Bloomberg has faced adversity with both his company and as mayor of New York City, where he successfully ran for his third term in office, after being the person who'd said back in 2001 that Rudolph Giuliani shouldn't be allowed to stay in office for a third term after the 9/11 attacks.

What does it all mean?
Well, in a nice way, it means that they all have lots of moxie. Or to be crude, BIG BALLS! And also, they have very good crisis management teams.

I have to say I've been thinking about all of this because my 2010 Capricorn horoscope says I need to take more risks and basically, learn to be tougher. I want to take inspiration from the power lefties and say, you know what, I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore! I want a better job, I want a raise, I want a more secure future, I want to be a power lefty! I just need to grow some balls. Of course, I see Leno, Winfrey, Bloomberg and Gates as inspirations for what they've done to advance our kind, but I also see that sometimes they just had to be what I consider mean. It's hard for me to be really mean. If someone said to me, well, it's his TV show now, like they said to Leno, I'd be all, okay, sorry, just thought I'd ask. Leno was like, so? It was mine first, so nah! And if someone said to me you can't be mayor again, I'd be like, okay, I'll just quit now. Bloomberg was like, watch me, mofos.

I know, having a ton of money helps you to have big balls, or big money=big moxie. But I feel like all of my power lefties had the balls before they had the money. They took chances and risks that most of the time I feel too timid to make. I need the power lefty push. I need something inside that makes me feel like it's okay to risk small things in order to get big things.

How do I get there?

Power Lefties

Who are the Power Lefties? I've already mentioned the top three, the Super Power Lefties: Oprah Winfrey, Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates. They're like a Holy Trinity when it comes to what they've done to advance leftkind. I think they're beneficent, and I think it's more than coincidence that they're all left handed. They have true powers, influence that you could only hope to begin to understand.

In some ways they transcend politics and partisanship. As bizarre as it sounds, I think this can be attributed to being left handed. Go with me here for a minute. When you live in a world where your kind makes up only 10% of the population, and every thing around you is made for the other 90%, you learn to adapt. That's what being left handed is like. You grow up adapting to a world made for right handed people, where almost every object, machine and tool is made for their convenience of use. Once you've mastered this biased world, it must seem as if there are no limits... How have Oprah, Bill and Mike done it? One word: Communication. In their own ways, they've Mastered Communication. It's something that's common to all mankind, and they've figured out unique ways to facilitate it. In the club of Super Power Lefties, I would have to also include Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

It's something to aspire to, I suppose, so that I too can change the world.

Power lefties. Where was I? After the three main branches on the Tree of Left, (okay, I know I take it a little bit too far sometimes) there are my favorite entertainers. Not that Oprah, Bill and Mike aren't entertaining, but perhaps it's not what they're best known for. My favorites when it comes to entertainment are power players in their own left: Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Jerry Seinfeld, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sasha Baron Cohen, Angelina Jolie, Jon Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, Jay Leno, Drew Carey and Tina Fey. They're all multi-threats, or slashies, as Stiller might say. They're also all strong communicators and creative geniuses.

For a minority that makes up only 10% of the population, we sure do represent!

What Left through yonder window breaks...

I have so many ideas for Left Hand, WV: The Movie. I know that sounds stupid. If there ever is a movie, I want it to be called Left Hand, WV. I want Will Ferrell to play the mayor of Left Hand. I want some of the actors and celebrities to play themselves, and I want some of them to be characters. Will Ferrell is definitely a character. Vincent D'Onofrio would also surely be a character.
Perhaps he could play a deprogrammer for left handed people who were switched to being wrong handed as children. Or perhaps he could be one of the original residents of Left Hand who's part of the secret cabal that's planning to keep all wrong handers out of town...by any means necessary.
I think about characters for him a lot. Sigh. But of course, I think none of them would ever be good enough.
I wish I had a writing partner, someone with more screenwriting experience and discipline. I've been so lazy with my writing in the past couple of years. It makes me feel good when I do it, but the stress of life makes it hard to relax and write most days.
I need to start doing yoga or meditation or something. My job is gonna kill me.