Diary notes, new week ahoy:
Oh noes, Ichiro has a bit of a fever, not super high but too high for the nursery school protocols 😞 we enjoy being careful. really.
Mondays are grocery delivery and “garbage out” day, plus I have a huge stack of cardboard to break down, mostly from ordering records even though “and really try not to order a lot of records“ / In other words, I’m really not good at not buying records.
This month, November, my “big project” is to assemble a poetry book so going to tidy up the studio, set up a standing desk bench and work along with that for a few hours every day as possible in between hospitals and other tasks.
As such, I will slow down on my “clearing out the backlog of the creative life archive” project for the time being but still post occasionally diaries and updates from the poetry project.
And continue to fam a little flame of the Kerouac in Kobe campaign (You’ve seen the video right? Read the interview? Seen the video about the interview about the video?)
The project is long overdue and I want to make it “for Stanley” – reminding myself to not worry about the design, publishing, distribution etc. until after I have a manuscript made just how I want to make it.
Will be a mix of freeverse poetry pulled from journals, diaries, scrapbooks (mostly from the recent “missing years” but a few other eras which fit in), plus maybe some snippets from letters, diary musings, and what not. Sort of an almanac of personal archaeology.
For starters: a few tasks to get my studio set up for writing project, ergo:
(File under) Environment:
- Prepare bench area – cut & install support leg / tidy up
- Set up tea & incense station
- Calligraphy mantras, hang
- iMac at appropriate height
- Meta-documentation device, maybe
I’ve got a whole plan written down, even printed it out, have records on standby, talked to the family and have some meal prep in the freezer done.
This might not all happen, life has a way of getting in the way especially with “the illness” but intentions are powerful and here we are.
So we go on…
[update: As for the kiddo, he hit up the doctor, got some medicine, fever still sort of rising and got yet another C 19 test. Resting now. I feel like I’ve seen this movie before.]
[update, again: leg support installed on the bench successfully, a bit of sweeping and rearranging, tea tray assembled, groceries delivered, groceries ordered, trash prepared, laundry sorted]
