I meant to write a little short post yesterday.\u00a0 Book had other ideas, snagged me aside, and poured yet more Content into my head.\u00a0\u00a0 I kept struggling away.\u00a0 “Book,” I said, “I have to practice the music for tonight–it’s important.”<\/p>\n
“You have to write me,” Book said.\u00a0 “NOW!”\u00a0 <\/p>\n
“But I need to do the music, and get the tree in…”<\/p>\n
“NOW.\u00a0 Listen to THIS,” Book said.<\/p>\n
The tree was not brought in; the space for the tree was not even cleared.\u00a0 No bread was baked.\u00a0 No cooking done.\u00a0 No music practiced (and let me tell you, the wrath of the choir director towards those who did not<\/em> learn their music as he had told us to do last week?\u00a0 You do not want to know…)\u00a0\u00a0 Right up to the moment I left for rehearsal, Book had my nose firmly on the grindstone.<\/p>\n So it’s not like I didn’t work yesterday.\u00a0 I did.\u00a0\u00a0 Changes in the first chapters of that POV did indeed propagate through other chapters.\u00a0 Tweak this, tweak that, insert, remove, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 And Book wants me today, too.\u00a0 It’s Christmas Eve<\/em>.\u00a0 I have services to sing tonight, and I had better (!!!) be note perfect and markings-perfect by tonight.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have explained to Book that it can’t have me today.\u00a0 Book has already had two hours of me.<\/p>\n And last night after rehearsal, I was talking to a couple who will be singing their 20th in a row Christmas Eve services at St. David’s…their last, as they’re moving to Washington State to be near grandchildren.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One will be retiring from the National Guard, where she’s a medic, a master sergeant (her husband retired a couple of years ago, I think it was.)\u00a0\u00a0 I need to put her in the book.\u00a0\u00a0 She would fit very well into any of my books.<\/p>\n Anyway–no more today, O Book, no more!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Greater projects than you are afoot.\u00a0 Sometimes Book has to take a back seat.\u00a0 (That howling you hear is only partly the wind.\u00a0 The rest is Book…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I meant to write a little short post yesterday.\u00a0 Book had other ideas, snagged me aside, and poured yet more Content into my head.\u00a0\u00a0 I kept struggling away.\u00a0 “Book,” I said, “I have to practice the music for tonight–it’s important.” “You have to write me,” Book said.\u00a0 “NOW!”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[20,107],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}