Sunny and cold today. Last night, the wind took the last of the leaves from the limbs of the tree outside my office window.
This is the ninth year I have watched that tree shed its leaves.
As of tomorrow, it will have been one full month since I finished writing "Antedivulian Homesick Blues" and one month since I've written anything. We came home from Manhattan on the 20th, and there was all that proofreading (Agents of Dreamland and Dear Sweet Filthy World) and there was the election. Now, it's aftermath of the election and the attendant uncertainty. I'm in mourning, as are so many others. But I'm still alive, and I have to keep writing, because there's nothing else in this shitty, broken, wicked world that I can do.
And Leonard Cohen has died. This year is determined to take everyone I love. Cohen was one of the people who taught me the meaning of poetry and song, and there is a little bit of him in everything I have ever written.
TTFN,
Aunt Beast
This is the ninth year I have watched that tree shed its leaves.
As of tomorrow, it will have been one full month since I finished writing "Antedivulian Homesick Blues" and one month since I've written anything. We came home from Manhattan on the 20th, and there was all that proofreading (Agents of Dreamland and Dear Sweet Filthy World) and there was the election. Now, it's aftermath of the election and the attendant uncertainty. I'm in mourning, as are so many others. But I'm still alive, and I have to keep writing, because there's nothing else in this shitty, broken, wicked world that I can do.
And Leonard Cohen has died. This year is determined to take everyone I love. Cohen was one of the people who taught me the meaning of poetry and song, and there is a little bit of him in everything I have ever written.
TTFN,
Aunt Beast
- Current Location:Providence, RI
- Current Mood:weary
- Current Music:Leonard Cohen, "Leaving the Table"
Comments
If not for my children I think I would feel like lying down and stop breathing. The thought of what else is to come feels heavy and overwhelming. But, I keep on going forward and onward in my small world and pull my loved ones closer (almost housebound but still able to drive short distances of 2 miles or less to do errands).
I am glad you will.
This year is determined to take everyone I love.
It is a bad year. His memory for a blessing and his poetry in your words.
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