Monkey: What're you doing here?
DAH: I live here.
Monkey: Not much lately. I've been lonely. Where've you been?
DAH: Well, most of May I was in the British Isles with Mum and CHance.
Monkey: I remember. You didn't take me.
DAH: No, sorry about that. We did discuss it.
Monkey: I'm sure.
DAH: The day we got back from that trip, I started rehearsals for the Central Coast Shakespeare Festival.
Monkey: I know this already, too.
DAH: And that took up six evenings plus Sunday afternoon every week. We just closed the season last weekend.
Monkey: Uh, huh.
DAH: Oh, and I tucked in work travel to San Francisco and Walla Walla, too.
Monkey: While your "How Busy Be DAH" report is thrilling, it isn't exactly news.
DAH: Well, you asked.
Monkey: I asked "What're you doing here?" and "Where've you been?"
DAH: Yeah. And I told you.
Monkey: I didn't mean here here.
DAH: Then what did you mean mean?
Monkey: Sarcasm is wasted on monkeys. Remember that.
DAH: Sorry, but what did you mean?
Monkey: You've been gone from this process. Gone from this life. I wasn't asking about your physical presence. I was asking about your real life.
DAH: So, more why than what.
Monkey: Right, because sometimes with you there's no there there.
DAH: Like Gertrude Stein said of Oakland.
Monkey: Whatever.
DAH: The "so what" and "why it matters."
Monkey: That's it. So, where've you been?
DAH: I get busy. I get anxious. And I occasionally lose track of my "why it matters" and invest all in the immediate urgency.
Monkey: That seems like a poor choice.
DAH: I don't always know that I'm making that choice.
Monkey: That's why you ought to spend more time with me.
DAH: You're right.
Monkey: Damn straight. I'll help make sure there's a there in your there.
DAH: Thank you.
Monkey: You're welcome.
DAH is David Anthony Hance at DAHplaytime.com. He's there. So is Monkey.
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