Friday, July 12, 2013

Green and Gray


 
It's been damp all week, and Elvis and I have been out walking in the green-gray woods. My mind is dreaming a story that isn't quite ready to be told. My daughter urges me to write, write, but I must be patient and let the pieces of the thing fall into place. It is hard, because I planned to have the first draft of this second novel finished by now. I do everything so slowly, yet life seems to be speeding up. How is it that half the new year is gone? I will need at least a hundred years to get it all done--all of this stuff in my head and heart. Will my hands still work then? Will my eyes still see?

What to do? Take the colors of the sky and trees and make a new thing (maybe another caponcho). Read. Fill up on life and wonder (and salad greens). Keep up the laundry. Swim in the pool. Plod ahead, tortoise style, one word and sentence at a time.

Our pet tortoise "Daisy"

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8 comments:

  1. karenJuly 12, 2013 at 5:25 PM

    I don't know about you but the older I get the more time speeds quickly by, unlike when I was a young girl and time would seem to stop and take forever.

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    1. SusanJuly 13, 2013 at 4:11 PM

      Yes! The older I get the faster time goes by. I feel like my life is on fast forward now. When I was young twenty years felt like a lifetime, now it feels like only yesterday.

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  2. sarahJuly 12, 2013 at 6:41 PM

    Wonderful photographs! It's sometimes difficult to know when a story isn't ready to be told and when it's you yourself procrastinating. I do believe though that stories take their own time, some longer than others.

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    1. SusanJuly 13, 2013 at 4:13 PM

      You're right. It is hard to tell the difference. I think I might be procrastinating. Today, my daughter said, "It doesn't feel like summer because last year there was a new chapter to read and talk about each week." I want to do it. Why can't I?

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  3. impossiblewayJuly 13, 2013 at 7:44 AM

    Time has even sped up for me, which I never thought would happen. Sounds like a good way to spend your days, all these things you have been doing.

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    1. SusanJuly 13, 2013 at 4:15 PM

      Luke's pregnancy went by so fast for me, it didn't seem fair. Life is speeding by, but I feel like I am in a kind of paralyzed limbo of walking, reading, knitting and flipping the loads of wash.

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  4. LisaJuly 13, 2013 at 7:05 PM

    Oh, I love your green green greenery! Although the dampness isn't too nice.

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  5. TaraJuly 17, 2013 at 8:35 PM

    Your greens and grays are so pretty together. Mother Nature always has the best color palette suggestions. :-) Maybe your new story just needs to finish its gestation period? And yes, time does seem to be flying by now that mid-summer days are here.

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