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Hello. \u00a0 Another week of spring is upon us. \u00a0If puddles are here, can mosquitoes be far behind? \u00a0We may have to suck it up and adapt, folks.<\/p>\n
The Great Comet of 1996<\/a>, Hyakutake as photographed from latitude 56 north near Ketchikan Alaska. As noted by the photographer “By including the north star in this short time exposure, Hyakutake and the night sky are given a real sense of motion”.\u00a0Chip Porter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Tomorrow morning the novel gets first pick of time and attention, this time until I’ve finished this draft. \u00a0Then Stefan’s paper will go in the printer and I’ll crank out the first complete rough draft. \u00a0I know already things that need attention, amplification, cutting, but I’m going to leave those alone for now.<\/p>\n My new schedule with the Latin: \u00a0an hour or so on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays and a full day on Fridays seems to be good. \u00a0In the paper this morning there was a story about a kid, 16, who is a hyperpolyglot, who knew there were such people? \u00a0He learned the arabic alphabet in four days, then it took him, he said, a week to read fluently. \u00a0That’s just one of many languages he reads and speaks.<\/p>\n Well, he’s him and I’m me, still slogging through the grammar and the vocabulary almost two years on.<\/p>\n Reimagining has not got much attention this last week or so, but it will pick up again. \u00a0I plan to work on it episodically over the next couple of years. \u00a0I do have to crank out 3,000 words or so Groveland by April 1st. \u00a0That’s a good target.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Woodpecker Moon Hello. \u00a0 Another week of spring is upon us. \u00a0If puddles are here, can mosquitoes be far behind? \u00a0We may have to suck it up and adapt, folks. The Great Comet of 1996, … Continue reading The Week Ahead<\/span>