Thurs. Nov. 2, 2023: Snow and Hail
image courtesy of Hans via pixabay.comThursday, November 2, 2023
Waning Moon
Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde
Cloudy and cold
The latest on the garden is over at Gratitude and Growth.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 134: Types of Information
When information doesn’t add up, someone somewhere is lying.
I had trouble getting my act together yesterday. On top of dithering as to whether or not I wanted to be out and about. I really didn’t, but I felt I should. But I really didn’t.
I drafted a new episode of Legerdemain. I finished the half episode of LIGHTHOUSE LADY I’d started. I did some admin. I looked at a grant application I will fill out later this week and get out the door.
I drafted a new poem, based on a submission call that someone tagged me in over on Bluesky. I had to make some cuts and move some enjambments to fit the line count. It still needs work, but I’m telling the story I wanted to tell, and I’m telling it in this form. The theme completely triggered the poem to just drop into my head, which is kind of cool.
I worked a bit on “Artifact” (which will get a new title). I want to break the stanzas up a little differently. It’s the perfect subject for a cleave poem, but I don’t know if I can rearrange it as such in time. Yes, Jessica Dubey, now that you’ve taught me about cleave poems, I am obsessed!
Although I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year, I am keeping a word count tally for the month, just out of curiosity. I’m pretty sure I write more than 50K in any given month, although it tends to be spread out amongst projects. I’m curious as to see how it breaks down, just for my own knowledge. I realized, this morning, that I should include the blog wordcounts in there, too.
I hope those who are doing NaNo have a wonderful experience.
I wrote another two pages of the radio play. It keeps surprising me, which is a good thing, but it will need some restructuring in the revision.
I jettisoned the plans to go to the midday concert at Williams College and then to the Clark, because of the weather. I was in no mood to go tromping around from parking lots to buildings to whatever.
I should have done some script coverage, but I’d blocked off the day’s schedule without it. I did some tidying up in my room and some admin work. I finished reading Larry McMurtry’s memoir BOOKS (I’m pretty sure it’s a re-read, and I have a copy in my storage unit) and started reading his memoir LITERARY LIFE.
I counted out the cards on the tarot deck I wanted to take to tarot circle, to make sure they were all there. The cards are not in a bag or a box, and they tend to wander, and turn up in strange places (It’s THE WITCHES TAROT by Ellen Cannon Reed and Martin Cannon. I’ve had it for ages and really like it).
Off I went to Wild Soul River. The weather had let up; in fact, there was sun peeking out. I’d left a little early to mail the rent at the post office (and catch up on the news). I was still early to tarot, and wandered around, buying a small cat figure made out of obsidian, a necklace from Uganda, and a labradorite palm stone, which was determined to come home with me.
We were a small group for the circle, but had a great time. Of course, the card we were working with today was not in my deck. So I borrowed a TAROT OF THE OLD PATH deck (I have a duplicate) and worked with that instead.
While we were in circle, a hailstorm came up. Cailleach, the winter crone, made her presence known!
Driving home was a bit of a challenge, but I got home, heated up leftovers, and then settled in with Jeremy Rock Smith for cooking class. The cooking trip to Greece was wonderful, and they hope to make it an annual event. I hope I can join them one year. We talked pots, pans, and kitchen essentials. My kitchen is pretty well stocked. There are just one or two things to add, like a salad spinner, a spider, and maybe a Swiss peeler (although I think we have one somewhere, and didn’t know what it was).
Read a bit at night.
Did the night’s ceremony for the dead.
Overslept a bit, and having a slow start this morning. Meditation, then I have to focus on work all day, including drafting some new material and getting up the next Legerdemain episodes. I also have script coverage work, and a double yoga session tonight.
Be well, and have a lovely day!
