"The sun was going down, and the water was red, the buildings were black, and the streets were white, because it had just snowed, and I realized, looking down, that the landscape was just like one of my paintings.
For you see, I realized deep down inside that those non-essential people, who actually perform helpful services when they're not being told they can't work, don't really matter.
I realized, looking down at my son Seamus, who was just a baby at the time, that I had missed the very thing that was most important to me, and nothing,no one, was going to take that away from me.
Having never heard of the actress Sue ANE Langdon delayed my correcting the mistake, until I realized that 35 Down couldn't be anything but MINI ME.
I also knew that we had been invited to dinner that evening at the home of Mrs. Harris Champagne, who, according to experts in Breaux Bridge, was the first person to serve crawfish étouffée in a restaurant, and I realized that sitting down to a plate of her legendary étouffée when already stuffed with boiled crawfish would be an act of irresponsibility.
So, as I thought more and more about it, I became so intensely angry, so angry that I wanted to cry, because the cycle is never-ending, and because I realized that deep down, I hated being feared.
I realized that the "down time" my siblings and I used to fill with boredom-busters like paper football was now being filled with family-busters like endless "tech time" with friends.
After talking to Billy for a while about why he loved the game, I realized it came down to this: Minecraft is a game that allows kids to explore and discover freely without a whole lot of rules or the pressure of fabricated competition.
Finally, about a month ago, I realized that deep-down my days in the house were coming to an end.
Once I realized I could settle down, I got better.
