Friday, May 9th
The marketing and promotion for the publication of Time & Transformation has eaten up my time for the last two months, and happily, I’m now able to come back to other things; to smelling the roses and writing for myself and friends. The book launch party is tomorrow night and beyond that, who knows where it will go, but once launched the book will have to travel of its own volition. The writing and caring for it have been a great joy, and at one level I’m sorry to leave the world of the Maya and my dear heroine Balamka, but there are other things to do; other lands to explore and characters to discover.
At home Joie the dog and Sophie the cat are doing as well as a brother and sister of another species might. They have moments of play and others where they’re not so sure of one another, but how different is that than any relationship? The gardens around the property are becoming truly magical thanks to the joint efforts of myself and Heather and Mike.
My favorite moment this spring was late in the day after hard work planting, when I sat in my newly developed grotto garden hemming a dress while Heather and Mike continued down below putting in a new yellow rose bush. The sound of their conversation and laughter mixed with the sweetness of bird’s songs in the otherwise silent world of the mountain. The sun was low in the sky with no wind and now and again Sophie would dart by with her huge bushy tail held high. Joie would not be far behind. Such a moment seems to imprint on the soul in such a way that it is eternal. I don’t know why one moment is so and the other millions of moments are not, but it seems true. Since then, I often remember the experience and am grateful for it as well as awed by how simple the truly important things in life actually are. I suppose we must do those other things but frankly if I could choose whether to write a book and go to stores and do readings, or go to a party, or travel to a distant land, or sit once again hemming my dress with family and garden around me, I know what I would choose.
