Every 4th I remember 1993, spending the holiday in the VA with a lot of Vietnam war vets, whose response to fireworks was to dive for cover, yelling "Incoming!" Changes your attitude about the celebration, believe me.
So I spend time remembering vets and protecting Sketch, who also hates fireworks. The holiday is no longer "fun."
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Harriet fried chicken and we watched the world cup together, cheering on England, who won 1-0 in a poorly officiated game. A low key stay at home day, perfect for me but I suspect H would rather be at a picnic somewhere. She is much more social than I am.
I wrote a difficult first paragraph for a new chapter. Brooding about it for days, so it's nice to get something down.
Helped another "old lady" publish at Amazon, 80s, took my class as an auditor, Czech, has moving wwII memories. I suggested she write them as vignettes, as they come to her ... she sent me some pages and they are good. I'm happy to help her get this published at Amazon. She has more writing to do first.
We watched the BBC series Five Days and liked the first season. Will stick with it. On Amazon Prime.
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Want a hot dog on principle ... out of luck, i think.
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SUNDAY. I have no ambition to do the ukulele practicing I need to do before class on Tuesday ... keep putting it off. I may just show up. I am learning a lot, theoretically, and with some practice, but actually I have no desire to solo, the chord sequences interest me much more, and discovering 6 chords and 6-9 chords are worth the price of admission ... so I guess I'm getting what I want out of it.
I baked this morning and now feel like I've done enough for the day ha ha. Well, doing laundry in the basement. Mulligan on. Brooding about the project, my favorite activity. H off to church, a late start.
Man, I hope I can make this new project work but it is a definite challenge. There are two worlds: the story world and the imagination, which can go anywhere at any time (and so will go to ancient Greece and to the Little Big Horn) ... and there are story characters, a reader and author as characters, and Socrates and Sitting Bull as characters, and at first they behave themselves and stay where they belong but eventually all barriers are down, it's a crazy quantum world and everybody is everywhere at all times. Whew. Can I actually make this work and be engaging to a reader, even as I claim this does not interest me (as author in the book)? Who the hell knows. But I try.
This AlphaSmart is very conducive to writing. Just put the keyboard in front of me and off I go.
So I spend time remembering vets and protecting Sketch, who also hates fireworks. The holiday is no longer "fun."
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Harriet fried chicken and we watched the world cup together, cheering on England, who won 1-0 in a poorly officiated game. A low key stay at home day, perfect for me but I suspect H would rather be at a picnic somewhere. She is much more social than I am.
I wrote a difficult first paragraph for a new chapter. Brooding about it for days, so it's nice to get something down.
Helped another "old lady" publish at Amazon, 80s, took my class as an auditor, Czech, has moving wwII memories. I suggested she write them as vignettes, as they come to her ... she sent me some pages and they are good. I'm happy to help her get this published at Amazon. She has more writing to do first.
We watched the BBC series Five Days and liked the first season. Will stick with it. On Amazon Prime.
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Want a hot dog on principle ... out of luck, i think.
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SUNDAY. I have no ambition to do the ukulele practicing I need to do before class on Tuesday ... keep putting it off. I may just show up. I am learning a lot, theoretically, and with some practice, but actually I have no desire to solo, the chord sequences interest me much more, and discovering 6 chords and 6-9 chords are worth the price of admission ... so I guess I'm getting what I want out of it.
I baked this morning and now feel like I've done enough for the day ha ha. Well, doing laundry in the basement. Mulligan on. Brooding about the project, my favorite activity. H off to church, a late start.
Man, I hope I can make this new project work but it is a definite challenge. There are two worlds: the story world and the imagination, which can go anywhere at any time (and so will go to ancient Greece and to the Little Big Horn) ... and there are story characters, a reader and author as characters, and Socrates and Sitting Bull as characters, and at first they behave themselves and stay where they belong but eventually all barriers are down, it's a crazy quantum world and everybody is everywhere at all times. Whew. Can I actually make this work and be engaging to a reader, even as I claim this does not interest me (as author in the book)? Who the hell knows. But I try.
This AlphaSmart is very conducive to writing. Just put the keyboard in front of me and off I go.
