Tomorrow, Wednesday, the 12th of December. I will be doing two things that are new and exciting for me. First, I’ll be doing the next broadcast of my new show, Talking To Animals, on WBTNAM130, a community radio station in Bennington, Vt.
You can call the show free – 866 406-9286 or e-mail me questions about your dogs and animals – [email protected]. You can listen to it here from one to 3 p.m. or you can use a free radio app like Simple Radio, available everywhere there are apps.
Then after the show, I’ll be going on the first solo retreat in many years. I’m taking three days – Thursday, Friday, Saturday – to work on the ending of my book, “Gus and Bud,” and also to cool off a bit, think a bit, refresh the space between my ears.
By “solo,” I mean Maria isn’t taking a retreat, I am. and I will be doing it here at the farm. I plan on getting up at 4 or 5 in the morning to work on my book, before the sun comes up and reality intrudes.
I’m doing a lot of things, old and new – and starting acting classes in January – so I want and need to get this book, probably my last commercial book, finished.
If it’s my last book, I want to go out on a nigh note. I’ve loved being a book author, I did that for most of my adult life. Now I am a blogger and a photographer, and I love that as well. Life is what we make of it.
I love my blog and always miss it when I’m not writing, but we probably could all use a short vacation from one another, healthy for all of us.
So after Wednesday afternoon, the blog will go silent for a bit, and I’ll be back Sunday, probably late int the day. No writing classes this weekend either.
Maria and I are setting out to see the new film “Roma,” by Director Alfonso Cuaron. It is being hailed everywhere as a masterpiece, it is a Netflix movie opening briefly in movie theaters so it can qualify for an Oscar award.
It will debut on Netflix on December 14th.
Maria and I have invited a friend, she was born and raised in Mexico and is working in upstate New York in a dairy farm.
I think it will be a powerful experience for her.
And for us, she is close to us.
I might interrupt my retreat to write about the movie Saturday. It chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970’s. You can see the trailer on IMDB here.
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Your blog this morning brought to min a page in my quotes collection book (really gems to use in practicing calligraphy)
“Our lives are storybooks that we write for ourselves, illustrated by the people we meet.”
and a couple more on the same page: “Age brings wisdom or age shows up alone—-you never know.””
There is nothing to writing. All youdo is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” —Ernest Hemingway
Your comment about folks who read and o not respond much, reminds me of an Emily Dickenson quote which seems to apply to me as one who d freqyebtly dies bit receive resoibse vu observations posted. , “This is my letter to the world which never wrot4 to me….