Bing sings, but Walt…
At work today I found a notice above my intray.
To get started, it read, you have to quit talking and begin doing. This attributed to Walt Disney. Y’know the guy who wasn’t so keen on the Jewish race and made up that Mouse. (I named a cairn terrier after that Mouse. And his sisters were called Danger and Mighty. I wasn’t allowed to name dogs after that.)
I don’t think that Walt had left the notice there. Though his reach is long.
I don’t know who did, if it was a coded message, or an attempt to communicate, but it sat there silently accusing me for the rest of the day. I am, all too often, assured that I am too quiet. So it must be more to do with not doing things. Which is nice. What did I do? What didn’t I do? Am I supposed to interpret this as a call to do something? Should I carry on?
Am going to try for First Reader on Strange Horizons e-zine. Wish me luck!
Freaky! wonder how it got there!? I once stuck a note to my computer saying ‘organisation is the key to success’. Didn’t work.
I had a comic strip attached to my monitor in which a cat is blowing up a balloon, but then sucks instead of blows and his head inflates. “Whether that worked or not depends entirely on what I was trying to do”, the cat said.
Which is a good motto, I think.