It is a blustery, rainy spring night, but thank God for spring and that we have seemingly passed our frigid days now with the turn of the clock to Daylight Savings Time. I’m feeling better and able to take walks outside again, which relieves the monotony of mall-walking, which
My friend Tim and I put on our jackets and walked five-plus miles, taking the longest route around Creve Coeur Lake and park, through the woods and swamp and fields, calling to the birds and frogs who filled the air with a beautiful, deafening song. “Get your sexy on!” Tim laughed.
Tim told me he is going to make a T-shirt that reads, “And then what?” It’s his new thing to question and challenge every idea. To push everything we do further and consider all repercussions. To
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. On March 5th, I read tarot cards on the Dave Glover Show again (St. Louis 97.1 FM radio), I think for the third time, and it looks as if I will be coming on once a month beginning April 3rd, 5:00 pm. I’m really excited to help out with the “Paranormal Wednesdays” (it used to be “Paranormal Tuesday”) and I will probably be bringing on some guests and exploring various aspects of the supernatural.
I know I’m late to the party, but I have finally discovered Amanda Palmer, coming to her music through her audiobook The Art of Asking. I loved the book so much and began to check out The Dresden Dolls and some of her solo stuff, and what do you know? She’s coming to St. Louis on May 30th and I have my tickets. One of the main “characters” if I can say that for a true story, a nonfiction kind of self-help book, kind of memoir, is her husband, the famous writer Neil Gaiman. Well, believe it or not, I had never really read him either, although I certainly knew of his reputation. Long ago I had purchased his book The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which I hadn’t gotten around to. Well, I finally began it, also on audiobook, and got obsessed. Amanda Palmer had talked so much in her book about his voice that I had to hear him read his own words. I loved to hear her read hers too. I will be reading everything Gaiman has done, I can promise you that. He is a magic writer, to be sure. And in our time, although he feels timeless. That’s exciting.
It’s been an interesting year so far. I was asked to “co-edit” a literary journal, and I accepted before fully realizing I was the only one who would be working on it and I would have to learn a whole new software program to get it published. Also, there was a lot of damage control, undoing big problems and trying to create a process. Well, I didn’t have time even to be a co-editor much less the sole one, but I am attempting to pull a team together. I can help a little, but I can’t do all of it. I have two full-time careers already with tarot and writing, and writing always seems to take a backseat. But no longer. I ended 2018 with a lot of
As a writer myself, how could I not then dig into Neil Gaiman’s “Masterclass” on video? I had to have it after Facebook kept taunting me with those cool, seductive ads. Gaiman is so classy in his dark British something (what is it? intellect and creativity, I guess). I am going through the class slowly because I have been so busy with tarot readings, post-DGS (such a lovely problem to have), and also in love with his novel. But how interesting to hear, in Neil’s Lesson 5 on Story, his question that makes a story interesting: “And then what happened?” It was an echo of what Tim had said earlier today, and I can say with absolute certainty that Tim did not steal this because he’s not much of a reader and he would have mentioned if he’d heard it, as he totally respects other artists. Tim was channeling Neil Gaiman, or else we are in a sort of critical mass with our thinking. I knew then that these words were a God-thing. A sign. Maybe just to me. Maybe to all of us.
What will happen next?