Fri. May 31, 2024: Another Month Complete!
image courtesy of messersrach via pixabay.comFriday, May 31, 2024
Waning Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Sunny and pleasant
What a wonderful way to wake up, feeling hopeful on multiple levels.
Today’s serial episode is from ANGEL HUNT:
Episode 142: A Dominion’s Apology
Vasariah takes the first steps to put things back to rights.
Only FOUR more episodes left in the season!
I managed to get two serial episodes adapted into one chapter yesterday before I had to leave for the meeting.
It was raining when I left, of course. Every time I’ve had something at the Berkshire Innovation Center, it’s rained. In fact, all the previous times, the weather was so bad, I had to cancel due to flooding.
But this time, it wasn’t bad; just a light rain, and the drive was fine. Parked in the lot as instructed in yesterday’s email. Wandered over to the building, which is quite well-designed.
Chatted with people from 1Berkshire. Ran into a bunch of people I’d seen at the Small Business Expo last week. Talked to some new-to-me people. It was fun. There was coffee. There were snacks. All good.
There were representatives from Senator Warren’s office and Senator Markey’s office, which was great, and Senator Marks (one of our state senators) was there himself. He really does take the time to get to know his constituents, which is very appreciated.
The presentation itself was excellent. The Berkshire Blueprint was launched in 2019, just before the pandemic. The concept, the way it has grown, and the vision for the next five years are all exciting. The way the different clusters connect, and the vision for collaborative and collective growth and long-term benefits for the community (not just pulling in tourist dollars and pushing out residents) is encouraging. So is the admission that points they didn’t realize as important back in 2019 have emerged as such since, and how they are now including them. The vision of us as interconnected individuals working to make this region viable and thriving for all of us was both an inspiration and a relief.
The plan presented was about long-term building as a community, rather than short-term greed, as it is in my previous location.
Picked up a pizza and an apple pie on the way home, because I didn’t feel like worrying about fixing lunch.
Had to get my head back into the client work game in the afternoon, which wasn’t easy, but I did it, and turned around two script coverages.
Was absolutely delighted to hear the news that the Narcissistic Sociopath was found guilty on all 34 counts. We’re not out of danger yet, by any means, but let’s enjoy the win for a few hours, and then get back to work.
Thought I’d removed all that thing’s supporters out of my life, but one or two popped up on FB after the news, and were removed.
Filled out a survey from Assets4 Artists. Being part of their program has made such an enormous difference. Now, I have to step into the newly cleared path and follow through.
Leftovers for dinner.
Reading one of Jane Shore’s books of poetry. It’s from the library, but I’m going to have to own all her books. What a powerful poet.
When I got to bed, I had an idea on how to rework some of the weird screenplay idea. I didn’t want to get up, so hopefully, it’s stuck in my head, and I can do it this morning.
Slept well, up early.
On today’s agenda: more adaptation work, work on the screenplay, grocery shopping, library run, a small coverage to turn around. If another one comes in, great. If not, I can read my friend’s screenplay revision. A Zoom call is being rescheduled, so I have a gift of time in the afternoon.
I’m going to take it fairly easy this weekend: deep clean the house because we have guests coming next weekend; more adaptation; some other writing; reading a book or two for review; going to Wild Soul River tomorrow for a bit to help them celebrate their 3rd anniversary. But I do need/want to get some rest in, and I hope a lot of work comes in for next week. I’ll also be pitching quite a bit next week, and doing more follow-up from the Business Expo and for the Blueprint.
But I also need to rest. June is about head down working, and preparing for all of July’s projects. I need to keep an eye on energy management, and not overbook.
Have a good one!
