Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 59
October 31, 2022
Welcome, Great Pumpkin
Happy Samhain, my beloveds. It’s the first and last day of the witch’s year, and there’s already a bowl of candy on the kitchen table. ...
Soundtrack Monday: Manju
It’s been a hot minute since we had a Soundtrack Monday around here, hasn’t it? Let’s fix that. This week’s soundtrack callback is ES Posthumus’s ...
October 28, 2022
Boulders in Finery
A week ago these rocks were covered in shaggy, drought-crackling grey. Now, they’re lush with soft growth. You can see traces of the dry time ...
October 27, 2022
Back to Reading
Spent yesterday doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work–you know, the type of effort that’s necessary to prepare for forward movement, yet at the end of ...
October 25, 2022
Fuss Minimum
The first coffee molecules have hit my epithelial cells, so I’m just waiting for the rest of me to get the sweet life-giving caffeine memo. ...
October 24, 2022
Ink Cedars and Work
Rain! Cold, glorious, beautiful, life-giving, drenching, forest-fire quenching, tapping, slithering, chilly on the nape RAIN! Can you tell I’m pleased? I’m able to go running ...
October 21, 2022
RELEASE DAY: Duty
The wind has shifted westward and we’re supposed to have rain this very day, which should clean the air a bit. I can’t wait–my eyes ...
October 20, 2022
Exercise in Direction
The air quality is still awful (169, it says, and higher is NOT better), though there is very little fog. Stepping outside for Boxnoggin’s matutinal ...
October 18, 2022
Smoke, Fog, Music
Dawn hasn’t quite begun yet, though the east is greying rapidly and an insomniac bluejay–probably Ed–gave a sleepy screech or two while Boxnoggin was out ...
October 17, 2022
Knife-Edge, Smoke
A smoky dawn–not nearly so red as other years’ haze, and we’re not having the ash fall in this part of the county. Eastward it’s ...
