rain is good

Finally an overcast rainy day. One of the nicest things around.

I've been enjoying having a life that's full of thinking. I read and I think. I watch movies and I think. I stare out the window, sit on the porch, go out on a walk and think. Sometimes, Abby (my orange cat) thinks with me. Though today she's been very bitey. Bite Bite Bite.
Oddly enough, when I was having lunch with Jonathan, I saw Ronnie Deverie (sp?) at a Panera in Danada Square. It's strange seeing people I knew from Bethel Out of Bethel. hmmm…apparently he's going to Wheaton College. I refuse to let Wheaton suck me in.
I rather have my sights set on Iowa Writers Workshop or at least taking a class with Marilynne Robinson Someday. She's my fabulous find that I found on my honeymoon on Mackinac Island of all places. Such a superbly crafted writer. I really don't understand why we didn't read her at school. She'd kick the ass of so many pathetic novels we had to read. I mean…not only does she write so extremely tight and so extremely well, she's thinking about God and interacting. In fiction.

I think I should say something about my wedding…and so I shall say, it was very beautiful, I loved the flowers and I was so glad so many of my good wonderful friends were there. That was the gift. To see them smiling at me when I got married. Well, there's Jeff too. He's a gift as well.

With so many quiet but wonderful things going on, it's hard to write it all down. The progress of my novel is great but it's terrible (and I mean that in the old Webster dictionary sort of way- awe inspiring). I have so very far to go and it will be that way for a very long time. I have hopes of maybe chopping up some of the scenes and turning them into short fiction and seeing if I can get them published somewhere. We'll see, we'll see. Right now, I'm just tracing incredible change in one my main characters and seeing what they're up to now- how they're breathing, how they're walking and hardest of all, what they're thinking.