...with preliminary thinking about an abstract that's due in early September.
7/30: after-dinner writing
...about the Vita Nostra series (which I finished listening to last night). I didn't write this morning, and when a free time for writing came around this evening I thought that I was too frazzled, but I gave it a try anyway. And it was really good. My thoughts coalesced more. I also became un-frazzled.
7/28: pigs & figs
Chris has harvested many figs from his trees! It's fun to try the various kinds and taste the differences.
We donated today to a pig rescue charity that Chris' aunt liked to visit. We'd been thinking about a fitting way to honor her, and when we heard today from her daughter about the pig rescue, it felt perfect.
7/26: writing
...4 pages in the morning for the past 10 days. It's something I used to do regularly. It's nice to get the habit back for a little while and to have thoughts emerge as I write. Today I realized some things about how my artist-books are different from a lot of others--many others are extending the tradition of medieval manuscripts, while I am extending the tradition of early modern pamphlets. It turns out, that's a tidy way to express a collection of significant differences, and it was good to work that out through writing this morning.
7/25: finishing
...a commentary project that started in 2020. I had been waiting on my collaborator's contributions, and I received them at the beginning of this month. Since then, I've been re-reading the novel we were writing about (Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?) and editing our entries. Tonight I posted the whole commentary online. Whew.
7/24: thinking
...about Joan Brown's Flora and its relationship to Rembrandt's Flora as well as the Roman wall-painting of Flora.
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