A strange and quirky count? Perhaps.
Over the last few weeks during the “Great Purge of 2010” I came across it again. All dusty and the hook that attached the legs to the rest of it had snapped off. I seriously considered putting it up for grabs during several of the yard sales that the lovely Joy and I had organized. Or even tossing it. ::gasp:: But I relented and decided to keep it. Something in the back of my mind told me to hold on to it. (Go ahead… click play on the video.)
So for the past few weeks it has been sitting in my room… just laying there in it’s battered state. Well, last week I finally decided to get some superglue to put it back together. It also struck me that the actual clock stopped working many years ago. I figured I’d start with the contact points… and move on from there. That indeed was the cause. Once cleaned off from the rust, I popped in a battery and it worked!
I hung it up and once again derived delight that as the second clicked away his legs swung from side to side simulating the iconic hip swivel. (Tis true… I am easily amused.) But there was more to this.
You see, it struck me this silly little clock was present during the periods when I was most prolific as a playwright. (My most prolific year was when I cranked out 9 plays in one year.) I am not prone to overt sentimentality but I do subscribe to the notion that objects absorb energy from our actions. Let me put it this way… just in the time it has been sitting in my room… I now have about 5 projects waiting to be created. My challenge now is to figure out the order with which to crank them out.
Am I saying my Elvis clock holds some kind of mystical power? I will choose to say nothing… lest a band of crazed writers suffering from writers block decide to nick it.
But, this week I am counting being reunited with a touchstone from a period when my creative output was at an optimum… and one that puts a silly grin on my face whenever I look at it.
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