Make The Most Of Your Time Here
It has been a delight playing the role of diversity show here in the locker room, but that time of joy must come to an end. I haven’t been around much lately, but I have carried the weight of my presumptive blogging responsibility on my shoulders, as I am wont to do. And as the year came to an end and a more hopeful year lies begins, one in which a new administration with a new light will finally grace My Native City, I have decided that my writing needs to be both more and less focused. I have tired of short stories and essays. I am working on a long fiction piece and a collection of essays that both require concentration. At the same time my general blogging, especially since the election, has incorporated sports, recipes, and other nattering that doesn’t seem appropriate here.
In fact this blog increasingly seems to be evolving into one wherein there is a lot of observation from offshore. And I am as insider as one can get. I was even born about a mile from the Capitol, conveniently in the evening so that the body was not in session. As all of these things have coalesced I have become cognizant of the fact that it is time for me to find my way elsewhere, observing the new Obama administration from more distance. I have enjoyed you all. Blog on.
Which sounds like an ending. But I want more for you. More of the kind of thing I’ll be reaching for. So my one last thing, my last wish for you, is to ask you to watch this and make the most of your time here.
Posted: January 1st, 2009 under Best of the Blogs, Do The Right Thing.
Comments: 9
Comments
Comment from John McCreery
Time: January 1, 2009, 2:56 pm
Does it take someone born and bred inside the Beltway to see our New Yorkers writing from offshore?
But, seriously, Sasha, it has been a pleasure. You will be missed. Best wishes for the New Year and for success in all your endeavors.
John
Comment from Max
Time: January 1, 2009, 4:33 pm
Aw gosh Sasha, Do drop in every now and then. And I for one have always enjoyed your insider comments. I hope you will come back sometimes.
Comment from Sasha
Time: January 1, 2009, 4:56 pm
Thank you both. Of course I’ll drop by. And mouth off. It’s what I do 
The best to both of you.
Comment from John McCreery
Time: January 1, 2009, 6:14 pm
After writing the previous comment, I took to the time to watch the video. What a marvelous, heartwarming thing it is. In return,since you mention recipes among your interests, allow me to recommend
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_tso.html
John
Comment from Sasha
Time: January 1, 2009, 7:07 pm
Thank you John. And I’m glad you watched. I hoped a few folks would.
Comment from Tony Litwinko
Time: January 2, 2009, 3:29 am
Sasha, haven’t been here very long, but many thanks for the video and for your thoughts, and may you always have the wind filling the sails of your new projects. Check out Scott Horton “No Comment” for a wonderful poem by Rumi about making journeys–his post of yesterday, “Rumi’s Parable of the Three Fish”
(http://www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment#hbc-90004100). Consider it an exchange of gifts for the new year with you and John McCreery’s little present of the Jennifer 8. Lee piece on Chinese food.
Buona Fortuna Cookie!
Comment from Tony Litwinko
Time: January 2, 2009, 3:34 am
PS:
Scott Horton also has a post that contains your clip of Brzezinski calling a Scarborough a Scarborough in the same batch. See “Eyeless in Gaza II.”
Comment from Brick
Time: January 2, 2009, 9:37 am
Good luck and do let everyone know of your new projects!
Comment from timr
Time: January 2, 2009, 11:44 am
Interesting video Sasha. Sorry that you are leaving.
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