Deep thoughts.
Kinda pretentious no? It wasn't intended to be serious. It's named as an ode to a regular sketch Jack Handey did on Saturday Night Live. He'd narrate thoughts that were anything but deep, in a very serious and wordy tone, overlaying Hallmark-esq pictures. Shower thoughts, taken to their very silly conclusions.
My writing has been anything but tongue in cheek so far.
I always misspell tongue, toung? Tung? Tunge? I know it's an unusual spelling but I don't remember in what way it's unusual. Spell checkers have a hard time correcting too, does he want to spell young? Run? Ting? Yum? I wonder where that expression comes from, tongue in cheek. It sounds as though you might inadvertently bite your tongue while talking. And why is that the expression for being cheeky? Is cheeky derived from tongue in cheek? I bet it is. I'll look it up after I finish this. Oh, I should share the findings I hear some of you say? Well, that's what I’m thinking you would say in my imagined conversation with you. But maybe you just want me to get on with what I was talking about, deep thoughts. Maybe you quit reading half way through this tangent. I just went and looked it up, the most believable origin is that it is an expression of biting one's tongue to suppress laughter. Or perhaps the explanation is that it comes from the habit of poking one's tongue in the cheek to express disbelief that, according to the very believable Quora answer I read, was popular in the 1700's.
Where was I, oh yes, the name I gave this newsletter. Very pretentious. You know, I rather like the title now. Sort of a false nod to a definitely not tongue in cheek newsletter. Sort of ironic really, now that I've referenced it.
I've been thinking about other less pretentious sounding names. Thoughts from the deep; that's even more pretentious sounding. Shower thoughts; that's too cliché. Musings of a roving mind; too… Roving. Intimate musings; bleh. Roving thoughts. Dispatches from a scattered thought box. Writings of an overly serious person. Attempts at writing; sounds pretentiously self deprecating. Pretentious dispatches; sounds too presumptuous.
I have a sort of overconfident air that I worry will sound pretentious. I'm not overconfident, I'm just pretending. I'm not being loud, but think I am, or is it the reverse, think I'm being loud and being humble about it by saying that I think that I'm being loud. That isn’t the reverse. Am I really loud, or is that just my perception?
I don’t know.
I find your voice strong and sure. My experience of you is that comes from knowledge and a strong heart. It is soothing and challenging. Love the pieces.