The View From Here/Up For This Week

The View From Here

After a gloriously sunny weekend that left many conference participants (notably my husband) at least partially regretting the enforced indoor time, it's clouded over again today and is blowing up strongly. Somehow the gray skies seem to accentuate the green everywhere, which is still comparatively new, remember, and hints at the promise of some dearly longed-for rain. The topsoil in our raised beds is so clay-predominant that  it's cracking open if we don't water every day. I'm doing 'we' sneakily: here 'we' mostly means Phil. I'm not so good at hauling 6-gallon jugs, and that's all the irrigation we have. Good job Phil is so strong.

This is Monday evening, just about to have another session of readings that are also open to the public: last night's show was an eclectic mixture of different kinds of laughter and some deep notes and chords struck. 

I'm still super-buzzed by it all but my energy is fading. I should definitely plan some significant downtime after this, no messing around on that score.

Up For This Week

I will definitely post a more thorough review of the Writers' Conference when I have more time and a little more distance from it. 

Of course it's been an intense sensory/social/informational/literary overload, and it will take some time to sort all of it out in my mind. However, a recurrent message from those at the 'business' end of the writing world was that using the internet as a communications tool is a very good thing to be doing as a writer. I've been so excited to be connecting with other writers (of poetry in particular), many of them right here in Homer, and am imagining that I'll be wanting to write about 'writerly' things more in addition to all the food and healing writing. I hope that that doesn't make my blog too eclectic or schizophrenic, but I never wanted it to be a monophonic, one-trick blog: that's not the way life is! That's what 'ulterior harmony' refers to.

So, probably some more musings this week about where I'm going with this blog and this life, and hopefully some putting into practice of those ideas. I know I missed my 'Theme and Variations' post last week and haven't done a 'wordstalk' for a couple of weeks, so time, energy and internet connection permitting, those will come too!

Our camera should also arrive any day now, so hopefully more pictures to come too!