Pony Party: No Talent Edition

As I take a deep and sweeping inventory of myself in the prime middle of life I have come to realize there is an astonishingly long list of talents I lack.

Some deficiencies bother me more than others.

Despite being in the kitchen with my 85 year old grandmother many, many, times my roast beef still does not turn out as well as hers. It is good but not quite there yet. Heck, I even took notes once.

My math skills are rudimentary and I fear if went back to school I might say flunk out of grade six.

I am a procrastinator.

I have a singing voice that could be generously described as horrid. It is all the more galling because I work with an amateur opera singer, two women who sing in choirs, and a woman who does folk and rock very well. Those are just my direct colleagues all of whom share an office.

My dancing is a kind of shuffle jerk thing.

I still cannot drive stick the smooth and efficient way my mother and husband do.

I can’t draw anything beyond stick people, and I have a few friends who are pretty decent painters, plus a niece and a father who “tried it out” to “relax” and has proved to be better than mediocre.

Sigh…. Well,these folks have talent….

Did I mention I like tap? Nobody beats the Nicholas brothers.

You can just close your eyes and hear the perfection of the universe from the Queen of gospel.

The man who cheers me with soul perfection when I am grumpy.


And give it up for Dusty…

Any talents you wish y’all had?

Drop by, chit chat , but don’t rec the pony party…

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  1. Wakey, wakey time. If I am up you have to be as well!

    • Robyn on September 29, 2007 at 15:17

    …for finishing what I started.

    I wish, sometimes, that I had a talent for being noticed more than I am.  Someone wrote somewhere last night that what was needed at DKos was education about transpeople.  Apparently my diaries about that have been invisible for two years.

    • pfiore8 on September 29, 2007 at 15:17

    any talents? yeah… wish i could sing and play piano or bass

    and i’d like to better at math

    other than that, i’m happy to be astounded by other people’s talents

    • mango on September 29, 2007 at 16:09

    talent going on here, except that animals love me.

    • Zwoof on September 29, 2007 at 16:40

    to be ambidextrous.

  2. Those who savor the talent of others are just as important. 
    I am a connaisseur

  3. just askin’

  4. And I’m a good cook myself.

    I wish, however, I played poker better.

    • Robyn on September 29, 2007 at 18:12

    …to people giving Teacher’s Lounge a read and a rec, even a comment, over at the Orange.  The essay will be up here in about an hour.

    Robyn

  5. … sew, embroider, bake, woodwork, oh the list goes on and on.

    I believe we all have talent in something; trouble is finding out where that talent lies.

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