Brain Drain

Since I am required to eat lunch at 10:30, I am getting near the hour (4:30) when I could eat my own arm off...but have a hour-half to click away while my mahi mahi is marinating. I'm trying a new recipe--ginger honey glazed mahi mahi--tonight. I usually like nice, light and simple fish, but I bought these fillets from Trader Joe's frozen and have never tried them before. I thought a flavorful marinade/sauce/glaze would be safer than going for naked fish--in case it's fishy or not that great. Of course if it is I may not know but...

Thanks for giving me the background on KB. Sounds like a great thing for you both, but especially for her. Having someone to connect with when you've had to move far away is a port in the storm. Sounds like you had a good afternoon...But I've been worried about that pasta salad! I hope it didn't go to waste. ;-)

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Last night, as I got my writing ducks in a row, I had several OMG moments. (btw, Miss English Major: post haste!) I pulled out old books, connected some dots and remembered some important things--like how I got to those productive and creative periods in the past (especially the last one). It is such a process for me to get there, but I am on my way and willing to to do what it takes. In fact, I wonder if these entries are my newest, techno-age version of my "morning pages," recommended by Julia Cameron. They needn't be good or meaningful or well-written. They are meant to "brain drain," a place to dump your worries and fears, a place to deposit the things that stand in the way of the other side, the creative part of us. JC evens uses blah blah blah in describing them. I think we have both felt that's what we do here, and have on occasion refrained from entries because we think all we have to share is the mundane, the "purely informational" you called it just yesterday. (Interestingly enough, since I read your entry this morning, after deciding last night to start my morning pages again and/or accept theses entries as morning pages because they already seem to be working....)

The other JC recommendation I decided to re-espouse is "the artist's date." 2 hours a week. A bookstore, an antique shop, a drive with my camera in the fall, making a pot of chili or soup. Solo. As she says, it fills the well.

These tasks have worked for me in the past and I'm happy to put them on my new, non-summer list of things to do. I am ready to put my car in gear and get out of that parking spot. Enough people have tapped and given me their blessings and thumbs-up. And so, I will:

1. Show up at the page.
2. Fill the well by taking care of my artist.

Feel free to join me, Amanda.

Love you, Barb