Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Listening to Louise Erdrich's Latest "The Sentence"

 Set in a haunted Minneapolis bookshop over the course of one very momentous year, The Sentence is an ambitious novel, featuring a sinister ghost, a country in tumult and Erdrich's own shifting style.



Sunday, Thanksgiving weekend, 2021.  Last year, 2020, Mayo Patient Visitor Cafeteria at St. Mary's Hospital. Rome had just had lary surgery.  By this remembrance, this year an improvement. 

I guess.  I am grateful, Still covid, still cancer.  Still alive and taking one step at a time. 

All in all, an interesting, quiet holiday weekend.   Art done, art listened to and watched. ArtJuice podcast and I watched Louise Fletcher (yes another Louise to love) playing with black India in, water and orange paint.  Many pieces of paper, playing - let's call it a series.  How does one move forward with art without playing until you find out what you like?  Process of many, may result in once you love. 

Did write in journal and wrote a poem for OneNote poem book.   I did that in response to listening to other writers in more podcasts.  Mary Ruefle, Aimee Bender.

This tells me that even as a new covid variant enters on the world scene - with the potential to set us back again.  There are activities to sustain me. 

It becomes more clear that it is imperative to map out, define and write intentions.     

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