Imbolc                                Black Mountain Moon (new)

Back into Caesar and the Gallic wars. Better than I expected, worse than I hoped. I’ve not lost the corpus of knowledge I’ve gained working with Greg, but retrieving it and using it is far from facile. I remain a committed classicist in training, so I’ll get back to pre-move skill levels and move beyond them. Lots to read and think about. My goal is to integrate my work in the classics with my work in art history and literature, mostly around the work of Ovid. Just how I’ll do that is not clear. Yet.

It was the same last night at my workout. Sustaining it proved difficult, especially when my fitness tracking watch refused to function. This may seem like an odd problem, but the feed back from the watch: calories burned, average heart rate, maximum heart rate, training load reinforces my work. No reinforcement, less incentive.

Fitness, classics, art history, writing and political work have been my focus for many years now. They will be here, too, along with traveling the West, the mountains, high altitude gardening and bee-keeping. And all of this woven into the fabric of inter-generational family life, the missing component of our life in Minnesota.