Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Bloodroot Moon<\/p>\n
OMG.\u00a0 I can’t count!\u00a0 I did about one-third the number of words at Blue Cloud as I thought I did.\u00a0 A silly arithmetic error.\u00a0 Have you ever seen that Gary Larson cartoon with Hell over the door and a bookcase containing books titled:\u00a0 Story Problems, More Story Problems, Story Problems the 11 edition?\u00a0 That’s me.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t change how hard I worked, not at all.\u00a0 Or, the value of getting back to the writing.\u00a0 Just deflates my overall sense of accomplishment.\u00a0 Which, come to think of it…<\/p>\n
On my last night at Blue Cloud I met an unusual guy, Lawrence Diggs.\u00a0 Lawrence is a bald headed Africa-American about my age, a Buddhist and refers to himself as the Vinegar Man<\/a>.\u00a0 Lawrence and I had a two hour long conversation about reality, economics, racism and writing.\u00a0 It was strange to meet a fellow flat-earther as far as divine metaphysics go on the last night of my stay at this Benedictine Monastery.\u00a0 Strange and exhilarating.<\/p>\n When the Woollys go back to Blue Cloud in September, I’m going to set up a visit to the International Vinegar Museum in Rosslyn, about 40 miles to the west on Hwy. 12, toward Aberdeen.\u00a0 I mean, how many chances will you get to see it?<\/p>\n As I now calculate it, I have about 60-65,000 words done on Missing, counting the Blue Cloud work.\u00a0 That’s about 2\/3’rds of the way.\u00a0 Just gotta keep plugging away.<\/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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Bloodroot Moon OMG.\u00a0 I can’t count!\u00a0 I did about one-third the number of words at Blue Cloud as I thought I did.\u00a0 A silly arithmetic error.\u00a0 Have you ever seen that Gary Larson cartoon with Hell over the door and a bookcase containing books titled:\u00a0 Story Problems, More Story Problems, Story Problems the … Continue reading Story Problems. More Story Problems.<\/span>