Endings

Samhain                                                    Thanksgiving Moon

Took my final quiz.  Graded my five assignments of others.  The mythology class is over for me.  This week, too, I finished the first revision (not at all the last) of Missing.  And, too, it was just this week, Friday, that all the research I’d done prior to the Terra Cotta Warrior exhibition finally came together and created a good tour, maybe a very good one.

That means three areas where I’ve put a lot of energy over the last three months, since September, have all come to fruition and closure in the same week.  An accident, I think, but it has left me feeling exhilarated on the hand and let down on the other.  Sort of a dip, a consequence of juggling three large balls for a significant period of time, then having them all disappear.  What do I do now?

(Hermann-Hendrich-The-Norns-1906)

Well, I know the answer to that.  Latin.  This whole next week will be focused on translation.  Then, the week after that I’ll turn to learning how to print out my manuscript using the new software, making a few revisions of location and joining of scenes–and, I’ll add a scene I realized over dinner that I need to include.  A result of a change made earlier.

In the last week of the month, Christmas week, I’ll start writing Loki’s Children, Book II of the Tailte trilogy.  Looking forward to that.