Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
like glue i tell you
i overslept last night and my brain has felt like it is wading through glue all day.
despite that i made a valiant effort at the book i am writing (i promised myself 3 hours a week on sundays to give myself some working structure) – did some research for it and made some notes…. they were poorly written notes (owing to the sticky brain) but i got the ideas down i needed to from the reading. (i don’t know if i have mentioned the book here before – it’s something i started three years ago and then failed to complete to any appreciable degree – a number of things have made it a priority to me that i get it done and published… mostly so i can leave it behind me).
managed also to unpack a bunch of books i have been storing for a friend (had to rearrange my office/storage area to fit them in). i still have to pull the rest of his books out of my basement but i’m waiting for a day that is less wet and possibly some help from someone because they are heavy. i forgot how much i appreciated this book collection until i started sifting through them. the nice thing is that he and i always did have different but very complementary book collections….. our personal and activist focuses are pretty evident when looking through them. i decided finally to put them on my shelves after storing them for quite a long time as they form the research basis for the book i am writing.
it feels like all i do these days is read and write and occasionally work on my rug (which is almost finished… ) – every surface of my home has books open and marked – ready for the research paper, the book, or just my own enjoyment time. i don’t remember a time before where i was pursuing so many different intellectual pursuits (not to mention my own therapy which is a processing pursuit of its own) at the same time. i definitely think being slightly removed from the city and having a quiet home is lending itself to that – though i still have difficulty being self-motivated at times.
i am moving ahead with preparations to visit the southland at the end of february. the trip now looks like 12 days or so in a few different places…. but it is coming together as it should. my friend jake has offered to drive me down and aaron is seeing about transferring his air canada credit into my name. if both those things work out, that would make the travel portion of my trip very cheap. who knows though as every detail is still up in the air as i write this.
anyhow – david is on his way over for dinner… for which i have made a lovely stuffed squash. i will post a link to the recipe later…..
One Comment on “like glue i tell you”
Red Cedar 
If you book turns out to be half as engaging as the fiction piece you posted below, it will be quite a read indeed. Thanks for sharing.
I’m glad you mentioned the spaghetti squash. I have to add it to my springtime garden list. I don’t know why I haven’t planted any the last few years. Maybe because the zucchini came up for free and I never bothered to get any seeds for the spaghetti squash.
The summer canoe trip sounds like a great time. My only trip to B.C. was confined to Vancouver and whatever the name of that resort city on the southern end of Lake Okanagon is. Kelowna, I think. Close enough to the real world, but never quite close enough to touch it. Lovely drive, though.