Part 22  or so. 

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I was watching Hulu the other night and could not focus on any movie long enough to maintain enough interest to watch it all the way through, so drifted through 3 of them.

1.  Some old guys with nothing better to do,  and too much time on their hands, trying to maintain relevancy by investigating a murder in their apartment building

2.  Another one about a fading country music star trying to maintain relevancy by writing one more hit song for a young beauty who gave him a night or two before discovering who he really was.

3. A third one about an aging screen writer whose idea reservoir has run dry,  and struggling to maintain relevancy by teaching a writing course at a community college

Of course I detected an overriding theme.    Aging men trying to find a relevant role in a world that has an increasing disinterest in them.    And the overriding themes of aging.   The struggle to stop from disappearing.   To scream into the night that you are still here and that you still matter.

Story arcs.   Introduce the protagonist with a central challenge.   Change things up.  Throw a spider into the ant hill.   Then the third act - the denouement.   What has the protagonist  learned.  How have they changed.   You try to find meaning in these things and you think that you have found it, but the professor smiles across from you and says "Good.  Now go deeper".      

No one ever talks about a missing Second Act.

Lionel Ritchie, who wrote a thousand number 1 pop hits back in the 70s, always said that he learned how to write songs from his grandfather, who always told him that "When you think you are done, go back one more time".

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Just a lot of random thought processes that may or may not have anything to do with each other.

Every Starbucks coffee shop I sit in nowadays seems to be filled with white haired guys sitting with their laptops in the middle of the day.

Such a waste.     Where is the meaning in this?    Look at it one more time.  Go deeper.