My dwelling is more often than not right beneath the flight path of the nearest international airport. Quel surprise. And for about one week or so every year – at about this time – the sun’s traverse across the sky lines up perfectly with the flight path above my home. It’s an astrological event of the suburban scale.<\/p>\n
What this means to me, being that I work from home, is that roughly every twenty minutes or so, for a week, a jet thunders overhead and momentarily eclipses the sun. Now I’m only in this momentary shadow for a split second but it’s enough to terrify anyone with half my imagination and sense of self-importance. You’d think I’d get used to it. But no, every single time I hear those descending engines hurling toward me and then suddenly the sun is blotted out I think: This is it!<\/em><\/p>\n Of course it’s gone as quickly as it came but I’m always left with the lingering reminder of mortality (it’s a pretty long week). And the form this lingering reminder of mortality usual takes is the question: Would I be satisfied with the body of work I’d be leaving behind if a jet plane really did come crashing down and evaporate me in a fiery inferno?<\/em><\/p>\n Usually the answer is no. Not yet.<\/p>\n Then I go back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or why vanity keeps me striving for greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}