“Age is like a pair of glasses that corrects the near-sightedness of youth.”
Sometimes I write things and I surprise myself. This sentence resulted from writing about the time I put on my first pair of prescription glasses outside a turreted brick hotel in Leadville, Colorado when I was nine years old.
A hotel that once hosted drunk miners and their prostitutes, wealthy bankers and their bored wives, kept pristine and dust-free like fine china in a mahogany cabinet. But when I stood outside that day wearing my first pair of glasses, I could see things that I hadn’t before. Writing does that, too. Helps you see things you hadn’t before, viewing the world through the lens of a pen, the keys of a laptop. Speaking of which, I’ve been feeling very motivated as I log my word count into NaNoWriMo. Line charts are addicting!
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
― Vincent Van Gogh
I also created an account on Merriam-Webster. Words! Building my vocabulary of words! I love words. I love numbers, too. This “Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words” is…beautiful and useless. Which is so beautiful and lovely.
It is rainy season in Seattle, officially the “Big Dark”. The sky is gray and dripping but everything else glistens green. When I first moved here, years ago, I had a very hard time feeling Christmas-y without snow, but now, the glisten is my holiday trigger. The glisten, the gray, and the green, green grass of a Seattle December. We are moving out this month – for real this time – to remodel our house. We will live in a loft in Pioneer Square for almost a year if things go as scheduled. We could have stayed on Queen Anne, but we need something different. I need something different. Will not as much. I feel itchy and bored and restless and caged and anxious and I need to reset, reconfigure. Remember. Forget.
Moving.
Things That Nourished My Writing: November 1 - 12.
FOOD
LITERARY
Hearts and Minds: The Anatomy of Racism from Roosevelt to Reagan by Harry S. Ashmore
MUSIC
Pitchfork. To find out what’s new.