Notes from Exile, Week Eleventy-Seven, with extra Lenny Kravitz

Y'all, what day is it?
Please, while I try to figure it out, enjoy this shot I sent my friend Brina of the mask her daughter made for me back at the beginning of all this.
Seriously, I know what day it is. But I was surprised yesterday by how shocked I was that this is August. I have always had trouble with estimating the passage of time and am a chronic watch looker as a result (even when I didn't have a watch, how sad is that?). So this pandemic has made that little character flaw even more vivid.
How is it August? It was just mid-March a few days ago, wasn't it? Is Christmas tomorrow?
Side note: It had better not be tomorrow because that means we skipped my birthday but in the grand scheme of things that's probably okay as it is the last one before I turn 50 so...what was I talking about?
Right. Notes from Exile. Writerly stuff. Author life. Got it. Rift continues to do fairly well and I had plans to work on the next book in that series over the summer/possibly as the November Nano, but I haven't heard from Em and Alex in a while, so they may just get put back on their shelf in my hard drive for a bit longer. What I have fallen back in love with is Gin and Sath's story - but let's be honest, I never stopped loving them. 
I'm in the middle of the second draft of Guardians of Darkness, which is the next chapter for Gin and Sath, and while the story has plot holes you could drive a BUS through I'm enchanted all over again. So, I thought that I would start a new thing here at the Lettuce called Music Monday, while I'm shoveling mad amounts of literary tarmac into those chasms. 
The first one is a new one for me in terms of immediately making me think of the Rajah and the Nature Walker: Ride, by Lenny Kravitz. Enjoy. (Lyrics follow the embedded video.) Next Monday, a song that reminds me of everyone's favorite villain from the Nature Walker Trilogy. Let me know in the comments here or on social media if you have a favorite character from any of my work and I will look at my playlists for that character's inspiration.






RideLenny Kravitz

When I look into your spiritAnd the spirit never liesThere's a feeling that I can't explainDeep inside, deep insideFeels like I've known you foreverSince the origin of timeI've been with you in eternityIn my mind, in my mind
I have loved you since the dawn, my loveThrough the storm, my love, we will rideI have loved you since the dawn, my loveThrough the storm, my love, we will ride
You and I on Earth togetherCan't you see it's no surpriseI know it from the first second, babeAs I looked in your eyesI could only dream of heavenWhen I gaze into the skyBut I know I found my angel hereIn this life, in this life
I have loved you since the dawn, my loveThrough the storm, my love, we will rideI have loved you since the dawn, my loveThrough the storm, my love, we will rideI have loved you since the dawn, my loveThrough the storm, my love, we will rideI have loved you since the dawn, my loveThrough the storm, my love, we will ride
We will rideride, ride, ride, ride, ride
I have loved you since the dawn, my loveThrough the storm, my love, we will rideI have loved you since the dawn, my loveThrough the storm, my love, we will ride