Cedar Sanderson's Blog, page 5

A new start

So I did a video of my garden, a little walking tour of it as it is now. With all the mess and imperfections and work that needs to be done…  It’s a start. Starts aren’t meant to be perfect, if you make it perfect before you begin you’ll never begin, and you will have… Read More A new start

Bug Safari

I had promised myself that if I got through the editing and uploaded the working files for the upcoming book (Postcards from Foolz, due out from Raconteur Press this coming Friday) that I’d put a macro lens on the camera and go prowl the garden for a while.    The thing about the lens I… Read More Bug Safari

Fascinations

I had a gloriously geeky evening on Thursday. I’ve been taking the Master Naturalist class, so my Thursday evenings have been devoted to a lifelong fascination with the world around me. Lectures on botany, mycology, geology, and more… I’ve missed this kind of learning. So I showed up to the classroom where the class is… Read More Fascinations

Falling into Place

I wrote a lengthy post over on my Substack. I  try to do a long-form essay there every Wednesday. This one is on how easy it is to become rigid, fixed into place, and stop learning new things. Or, alternatively, how change is hard because it requires learning new things.  I am, myself, fighting a… Read More Falling into Place

Odd Prompts: Committing Commerce

A snippet from the WIP. Context for the curious is the world of Cannon Publishing’s Fae Wars.  *** “When the world hands you lemons,” He grunted under the effort of lifting his end of the wooden crate. It smelled faintly of petroleum products and was so roughly finished he was grateful for the protection of… Read More Odd Prompts: Committing Commerce

An Insufficiency of Oomph

  I had a long list I wanted to get done the last day or so. I… did not get all of it done. I have an insufficiency of energy and ability. I was trying to get the garden work done and tidied yesterday, and wound up straining a muscle. I went from the initial:… Read More An Insufficiency of Oomph

Observations

I’m not terribly good at birds.  Today I went on a birdwalk with other naturalists, and it was a lot of fun (plus being good exercise) because I was learning things the whole time. One of the things I already knew: I’m pants at identifying birds, especially when I can’t see them. Birdsong remains a… Read More Observations

Embracing Nightmares

We recorded a session of the BroadCast today, which will air on Wednesday. Myself, the Lovely Miss Rita, and Alyssa Casto all sat down together to talk about wonderment, daydreams, and life. It was a great conversation. Like these things do, it sparked me into thinking about something long after we’d said farewell and gone… Read More Embracing Nightmares

Ask

You don’t know what you can have, unless you ask.  The Little Man and I were working on the garden, preparing new flowerbeds, and mulching with the one truckload of mulch I’d bought. I had planned to make the garden grow slowly. Not overwhelm myself.  I had not calculated on youth and enthusiasm. The teenager… Read More Ask

Odd Prompts: A Single Flap

The title refers to chaos theory, the snippet is from a work in progress that is set in the same town as Farmhand.  ***  The agents looked at one another, then Spurgle huffed a sigh and followed Ilvan to a table.  Drema turned her back on them and headed for the kitchen. Gray sat at… Read More Odd Prompts: A Single Flap