This is the 312th day of the year 2011
We’ve been off the screen but we’ve not jumped off the terrace.
The Stone Sage Lion said we should have hung a sign on the terrace that said: GONE FISHING…
But it would have been more honest to say, I fell off the track, broke the promise, and am so sorry.
Life does that to all of us. Creeps up, destroys plans, ruins schedules and eventually you have to own up to it or feel fairly crummy. So, I’m owning up to it now.
The Stone Sage Lion knew from the beginning that every single week wouldn’t work, and it didn’t. What intervened wasn’t life as much as my illness. Then, when I began to feel stronger, I was stunned by how far behind I had fallen on the next book I’m writing.
However, there’s a new posting on Wordpaint that sums up my philosophy of the writer’s life, such as it.
I’ll be in and out of the terrace, putting things away for the winter, hoping for easier days for all of us. And the Stone Sage Lion and I will be chatting with you again, so hope you’re still around in the vapors of our virtual neighborhood.
See you soon and ….
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
© Alida Brill 2011
Alida, great that you are feeling well enough to post something even if it does finally knock me off the front page! I had an undeservedly long run!
Hope you’re well enough to drop in and see me sometime too.
Very best wishes,
Paul
Great to see an update from you! I had a case of The Vapors just this week and checked your site to see if I had missed something– then was concerned for your well-being. We readers are *thankful* whenever you pop up. Once a week would roll around TOO quickly if I were the writer instead of the reader. As I read recently, “the days are long but the years are short” — that strange sense of time that I suspect has more to do with my age and health than with the daylight savings time change this week (which I hate!!-why not moonlight savings time instead??)
Alida, I’m delighted to read this–from Vietnam, where I was beginning to worry that I had heard nothing from you. Glad you are coming back to the blogging and glad too that I will be seeing you next week. And how is Vietnam? Complicated, mysterious, young, hopeful, interesting, and the food is delicious, on the street as well as in elegant restaurants. Florence with hugs