Season Shift

Rain and thunderstorms are forecast through 3 p.m. We need the rain. On my trail walk yesterday the culvert where water runs off the watershed remained bone dry. If winter arrives, and there is inadequate rain, we will start the growing season behind the curve. That has consequences.

An acquaintance saw Rachel Maddow in Phoenix last night. Maddow is on her book tour for Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism. My copy is waiting in queue to be read. I delayed reading Prequel because I needed a break after reading Wallace Stegner’s intense history of the opening of the American West. With social media we all do everything together all the time. Books I recently read have a page on this blog, here. Do join in and try one of them!

I started the first task on a sorting table. The sorting table is a place in my writing area where I bring boxes and piles and lay them out so I can dispose of the contents. It serves a number of functions, the most important of which is doing research for the main creative work in progress. In addition to determining dates and ideas to be included in writing, the sorting table serves to identify books to be taken to Goodwill, books to go on the to-read shelf (which is now overly full), and documents and artifacts that need further sorting and contemplation or recycling. Today’s stack had a box containing mostly bookmarks along with receipts for events I attended and my military driver’s license. There is good stuff in the box yet it’s a hodge-podge of life’s detritus. Some of it is going in the trash bin after all the paper gets shredded to start brush pile fires.

There is garden work to do after the rain. For the time being I’ll hole up at my writing table and focus on getting a few things done. Thanks for reading.