Rising and Waiting

Lazy Easter Sunday.  The condo reflective of the state of malaise.  The Shear dinner a smashing success - from the Brooklyn cocktails to the expensive wines to the reminiscing thank you emails.  All to the very good, even as it ends with the lost Alehouse consciousness.  (In fairness, it had been awhile, and the bones are intact despite the odd scratch.)  Disaster to the phone and in the hangover, both barely recovered in time, but at least the struggle was not total unresponsiveness, as per the planned AG bachelor party for last eve.  A good excuse to escape back here by bus even so.

The arbitrary date given for acceptance of the MFA position provided time to think it over through the holiday.  I am game.  It must be done to open up a new avenue.  The March sale of Lav’s all the more reinforcing, and it is the proper call for the time.  The structure of the program suggests sticking to Halifax through until next sailing season and that 10th anniversary, so the thought to put the place up next Spring seems the rational choice.  Even as I wonder about this Fall, I would prefer a longer lead time.  The decision just now made to place the max pre-payment down with hopes of re-couping it soon enough...

What is next to be done?  Writing.  India, Tanzania, Havana, Greece, South Georgia.  Moose encounter also an option.  All first drafts that could be knocked off in the next months with some diligence.  You need to put fingers to keyboard to start uncovering the book’s future shape.  Peeling it away bit by bit.  Reading assignments for the 40th symposiums?

And hold on to 2020 as the flight year.  Whether in the summer or afterward, what is needed is the shelving of possessions, as per the conversation with Morrow just before the car was lost.  I have made such claims falsely so often, but it finally has a ring of truth to it with this new challenge.  It will be a shame to miss Rodos, but there will be a chance to return.  Trust in that.  And in the signs that these cancelled flights cannot continue.