Sap in My Veins
Hi Friend,
I’m so restless I almost didn’t write to you today. Since before sunup, agitation has been making me itch.
“What’s up?” my love asks, noticing.
My shrug doesn’t cut it.
He knows better. Knows me . “Whoa,” he says, and points me to the sofa by the woodstove, where I flop. “What’s up,” he asks again.
I hunt my palm as if for slivers, then send my gaze outdoors. Through windows, I scan that maple fronting fog and note the February shift of light.
“It’s my sap, I think. Waking up.”
He nods. Gets it. With novel #3 now in the publisher’s hopper, my storytelling’s been dormant for two months. No leaves on book #4’s tree yet, but when I get wiggly like this, ideas are rising in my trunk. Pushing into stems.
I believe there’s an earthquake among them. Maybe that big one in ‘64. Perhaps a tectonic rumble of heart to go along with it. I can see my protagonist, but only from a distance. I recognize the ones she’ll love, maybe.
Bring it on, spring. Grow me another PNW tale.
How about you? Any earthquake stories in your past? One that shook you to your core? Whether literal or figurative, I’d love to hear.
Meanwhile, here are the GIVEAWAY WINNERS for the last two weeks! If you won a paper copy, please reply with your snail mail address. If you won the audiobook, confirm your email addy, please?
WINNERS:
ELISABETH DIBBLE — Janet McHenry’s Praying Personalities
LAURA ROSE — Laura Frantz’s The Seamstress of Acadie
LISA HOOKER — Choose from Recorder, Abberation, or Guardian, all audiobooks from Cathy McCrumb’s Children of the Consortium series.
CONGRATULATIONS, ALL!
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And a NEW GIVEAWAY:
Three weeks ago I told you about a forthcoming book (releasing this Tuesday) called Science and Faith in Harmony . Your interest was off the charts! In response, author Sy Garte and the publisher are offering three copies to giveaway winners. Email me at Cheryl@cherylbostrom.com, and I’ll enter you in the drawing.
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And snapshots? Always. 
Wintry ones this week. Here you go:
Flying Start.
“You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?”
—Galatians 5:7
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Hanky.
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain.”
—Revelation 21:4
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Waiting for Wood Ducks.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”
—Luke 15:20
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Setting Out.
“Now the Lord said to Abram, “‘Go…’”
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Aging in Place.
“Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come . . .
when the keepers of the house tremble,
and the strong men stoop . . .”
—Ecclesiastes 12:1,3
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Sub-Adulting.
Young baldie, growing up well. Isn’t she STUNNING?
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Descent.
“Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists?”
—Proverbs 30:4
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BTW . . . I’m hunting for those Grand Canyon pics you asked about. They’re simply gorges.
Thanks for stopping by . . .
Love,
Cheryl
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