At Home: The Flight Patterns of a Young Boomerang

   Nothing breeds a cesspool of rejection quite like the hunt for gainful employment yet wading in it's foul waters has been constructive.  Naturally, there are many moments when rejection's side effects overwhelm me because, like most humans, I can only handle a finite amount of the queasy fluctuations of self-worth and bouts with failure.  Though such side effects have made me more prone to self-awareness that success does not always provide.  Additionally, most of the albums I've had on heavy rotation have at least one track that deals with some form of rejection (clearly this is the stuff that great art comes from).      Here are the useful aspects of employment rejection:  Separate the impractical from the uncompromising  Prioritize values Mistakes feed future success Success is a flexible concept As I have already written on other blog posts, I consider these lessons as ideals to strive towards. The ability to put beliefs into practice takes w

Here are some playlists to corroborate the comic:  Note:  These playlists are no where near definitive and in some cases, particularly with the flute pieces, the line between a solo and prominent background support blur into each other so I made an estimation that also improved the playlist as a whole.        A Sampling of Saxophone solos in Rock n' Pop Songs  (1970s-1980s) "Fun House" The Stooges [1970] "Moondance" Van Morrison [1970]  "Brown Sugar" The Rolling Stones [1971] "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" The Rolling Stones [1971] "Mercy, Mercy Me" Marvin Gaye [1971] "Spirit" Eric Burdon & War [1971] "Lady" Fela Kuti [1972] "Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed [1972]*  "Money" Pink Floyd [1973] "Jungleland" Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band [1975] "Year of the Cat" Al Stewart [1976] "Let's Stick Together" Bryan Ferry [