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Anne Rice "Hears Footsteps...."
Nov. 4th, 2005 12:50 amAs some of you know, I spent most of my early teenage years playing a lot of sports, football in particular. I was good at football, I was Offensive Team captain a few years, rookie of the year once, team top scorer once, and always 1st string except for my first year playing. I attended two Ottawa Rough Riders Jr. training camps, and if I had continued playing, I would probably have had a better than even chance of making it into the Canadan Football pro league. But I stopped playing...why is another long story.
In football, like many other sports, one of the main things that you need is confidence. It's confidence that enables players to dive and catch a ball, or put their head down and forge their way across the goal line. But every once in a while, a player, for usually only that particular play, will loose their confidence. A typical example of this would be a receiver running down the field looking back towards the quarterback who is throwing a ball at him. But sometimes, he hears "footsteps", sometimes literally, of the person who is covering him and trying to prevent him from catching. Hearing the footsteps, he looses his concentration on the ball, and starts thinking "Is this guy going to cream me as soon as I catch the ball?", and with that, he looses his confidence, and nine times out of ten, drops or misses the ball.
In this AP article, Trading Vampires for Jesus, we hear Anne Rice, at the age of 64, has returned to her Roman Catholic roots. She is now abandoning "the dark side" for Jesus, and is writing a series of novels from the viewpoint of Jesus as a 7 year old. Her reasons for becoming a Christian again are manyfold...he husband's death, diabetic comma and a litany of other health problems. But I think that it is more the fact that she is 64, and that she is "Hearing Footsteps"....the footsteps of Death.
Personally, I wish her well on her new path...but I hope that she will not make the mistake that many others do...and that is comming back and attacking all the things she was writing about when she was younger. And I wonder when she will regain her confidence, which I hope is soon.
ttyl
In football, like many other sports, one of the main things that you need is confidence. It's confidence that enables players to dive and catch a ball, or put their head down and forge their way across the goal line. But every once in a while, a player, for usually only that particular play, will loose their confidence. A typical example of this would be a receiver running down the field looking back towards the quarterback who is throwing a ball at him. But sometimes, he hears "footsteps", sometimes literally, of the person who is covering him and trying to prevent him from catching. Hearing the footsteps, he looses his concentration on the ball, and starts thinking "Is this guy going to cream me as soon as I catch the ball?", and with that, he looses his confidence, and nine times out of ten, drops or misses the ball.
In this AP article, Trading Vampires for Jesus, we hear Anne Rice, at the age of 64, has returned to her Roman Catholic roots. She is now abandoning "the dark side" for Jesus, and is writing a series of novels from the viewpoint of Jesus as a 7 year old. Her reasons for becoming a Christian again are manyfold...he husband's death, diabetic comma and a litany of other health problems. But I think that it is more the fact that she is 64, and that she is "Hearing Footsteps"....the footsteps of Death.
Personally, I wish her well on her new path...but I hope that she will not make the mistake that many others do...and that is comming back and attacking all the things she was writing about when she was younger. And I wonder when she will regain her confidence, which I hope is soon.
ttyl
