IN THE MAIL TODAY...

...brown wrap marked "Media Mail." Package from my Sister-Solid in WDC (Washington, DC).

DaVinci Code is here.

We both have a promise going ... "we shall purchase NO MORE BOOKS!!" We both have books coming out of the ears. Books serving as bedside tables. Books in the closets, on the shelves, in the car, on the nightstands. Books bought but not yet read. Books bought during the midst of reading another. Two "She's Gotta Have It's." But she broke the rule. She was number 76 on the waiting list on the library and desperately needed to know what the hub-bub is all about with DaVinci Code, so she broke and laid her $24.95 on the table. And what's a good sisterfriend do? Share with another sister.


Anyway, the first page is a solid hook. I see why he's called a Master Storyteller. Though I'm in the middle of reading Seasons of a Man's Life which is research for my own novel, I give myself the right to digress an hour before bedtime. Reading is critical to writing, right?


Anyway, the entries are few and far between, I know. Time has to be rationed carefully these days. Much to say but much of it finding it's way into my own personal journal. Blogging, as it has always seemed to me, is much to outwardly. And right now, I'm making tremendous progress on the novel, spinning poems, reading and just trying to live in a space of sanity. Thinking alot about living abroad for a while. Spouse and I establishing a 3-5 year plan.
My romanticism with California slowly dissipating, due in large part to the recent realization that perhaps what I am looking for is not within these states at all. Deficits, failing schools, gouging at the gas pump, exporting jobs, lies, hypocrisy, sickening consumerism, complacency, misappropriated concerns and much ado about nothing (gay marriage debate) ... concerns and frustrations shared by many and nicely articulated in this.

Be good and know that I, and the family too, are well.

-- A.