Fall                                                                    Fallowturn Moon

Sometimes Latin lessons leave me feeling further advanced, more knowledgeable, other times, like today they leave me with my brain tied in knots.  Tight knots.  I’m sure that means I’ve spent extra hard energy learning.  I keep telling myself.  Learned a new way to diagram sentences, using Noam Chomsky’s now passe transformational grammar.  I’m not sure why it’s passe, but it looks useful to me.

Keep reading.  That’s what Greg says.  It all becomes clearer if you keep reading.  I believe him; it’s worked that way for me so far.  It’s just that it’s harder stuff now that needs to become clearer.

I’m continuing to plug away at revising Missing.  As I go, things unravel and have to be rethreaded or dropped altogether.  Yesterday I cut the initial scene and it all flows much better in the first chapter now.  The story itself continues to emerge as I revise.  Funny, that’s what they say happens, but I’m experiencing it now.  So, if I can get that first chapter humming, then there’s the second one.  And so on.  BTW:  I’m a bit over half way through on the revision, but as I work sometimes I get lead to other parts of the book that need help.

Kate and I just watched 127 hours.  A gritty, intense movie made more so by its factual base.  When I lifted the DVD out of the player, I turned to Kate and said, “This is as close as I want to come to this experience.”  Since cutting the cable, we’ve watched more movies together.

Back on the treadmill today, cranking it up a bit, trying to shake off the detraining the last three weeks or so have accumulated.