Card of the Day: Strength

A Narrowsburg day.

I made a trip over to Narrowsburg to pick up some infant goodies gifted to me from Jane for J's almost born grand-daughter.

Then I stopped off at Michaels to pick up two bottles of coffee-liquor mix, and talked to him for ages about the inauguration.

After that I dropped by the few, but good shops which I followed up with a great cup of java at Roasters where I found Naomi and Nancy busy chatting.

But I couldn't seem to motivate myself to do more after that than grab some flat rate envelops from the Post Office and come home and paint.

I've been up and down the two flights of stairs about ten times as art supplies move from the shelves in the cellar to the "almost" Studio upstairs.

Nearly there!

Card of the Day: Strength

A strange day to pull Strength, but that's the card of the day.

I managed to get half my errands done, and make it to Narrowsburg for a good bye cup of coffee with my dear friend, J, at Roaster's. It was pouring so hard when I arrived in town, I sat in the car and listened to a radio interview with Charles Boch for more than 20 minutes. Boch it appears has just had his first novel, Beautiful Children, published. One wouldn't suspect that the writer is 38 years old and not 50 with dozens of novels under his belt. He is a very confident, and engaging speaker.

He had some very insightful answers to listener's questions, most of whom were MFA students and/or writers. One question from the audience was "how did he develop a story?" He replied that he permitted his unconscious to steer the writing rather than control the story with a planned outcome. He went on to say that when this occurs, the story writes itself and a more natural, energetic voice emerges.

Strength!




Image: Robert Place, "Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery" ©