2/15: more goodnesss
This morning I had a second cup of coffee while I wrote about the Judgment of Paris and discovered things about it!
Then I went for a walk in the nearly foot-deep snow. It made me feel like a kid at times.
For dinner I made a lentil and carrot salad and potato pancakes. Both used onion, and I paused in my cooking to photograph this onion slice:
2/14: an abundance!
I woke up well before dawn and read for a couple of hours before falling back to sleep. The reading was fun, but I was worried that the disrupted sleep would throw me off. It didn't seem to--hurray!--and the day was filled with good things:
- reading the NYT Book Review
- sitting with Tilde in my lap
- participating in a Zoom workshop about ekphrasis and fanfiction
- continuing to think and write about ekphrasis and fanfiction after the workshop
- taking a long walk in the falling snow
- drawing curves in the snow with my feet as I walked
- watching the ridge's puppies run around in their first experience of snow
- hearing geese piping differently in the winter storm
- having waffles with bananas, maple syrup, and whipped cream for dinner
- listening to Marissa Meyer's "Little Android," an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Mermaid"
2/13: deciding
...to drive out to Woolly Hollow to take advantage of the good weather. It was cold, but the sun was warm, and I walked along the creek above the cascade, below the bluff.
2/12: pulling myself
...out of a slumpy day by doing some quick baking after lunch and then heading to campus and town for some errands.
2/11: not as severe
The ice storm wasn't as bad as had been predicted. It still woke us (and the cats) up in the middle of the night, but the power didn't go out and the ice came down as pellets rather than in freezing sheets.
2/10: participating
...in an online ekphrastic workshop focused on contrast. At the outset we were asked to consider what the concept of "contrast" meant to us or how we feel it at work in our lives. That made me think about contrast as a phenomenon or happening (rather than a thing), an experience of difference that has time and place.
2/9: lightly revising
...my conference paper from January for posting online. I added two paragraphs, some footnotes, and a bibliography. It wasn't hard, but it was something I had been somehow to anxious to do (and hence I'd been delaying doing it). I'm glad it's done now.
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