Oct 9
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The first science fiction I read was R.A. Heinlein’s Door Into Summer. I was working my way through the Jr. High (school) library in an extremely methodical way, attempting to read every single book. I made it to Phillip Wylie’s books in less than two years, which tells you something about the size of the library as well as my dedication to NOT going to the lunch room. Anyhow – this book fell on me like an anvil. It has time travel, and cats, and first love, and do-overs, and I was gobsmacked. I haven’t re-read it lately, so I’m not sure if it holds up, but just the phrase, door into summer, makes me think of secret hidden things.

I used a photograph of a door and embroidered around it. I used my working theory that almost any problem can be solved with more thread. It took a good deal of mental thrashing to get myself into my room and make something. I am struggling with the delicate balance between thinking I need (more or less forceful) encouragement and thinking I need a break. The trouble with the break theory is that I really like this one, and when I need a break, all I can make is carp.

Oct 8
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I was thinking about sailing.

I am a little sad that I didn’t trust my needle enough to draw with that. I sketched in the outlines with a marker and embroidered over the lines.

Oct 7
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Our front door, open to catch the breezes, looking out onto the porch and through the porch to the street (you can’t see that through the screen…)

I like that we can, and do, leave our door open when we are at home. I am appreciating the last of the weather where that is possible.

Oct 6
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Saturday’s postcard, done with every muscle quivering from climbing again in circus class. BUT – I was stronger this time, and I will be stronger again next time, and stronger again soon.

Oct 5
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Oct 5b
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two for today

The first one got me started, and the second one got so exciting I kept adding to it until the thread started breaking. Then I had to stop because it was frustrating.

The squirrel who wants to live in my house found a Nilla wafer in the garbage, and couldn’t be shooed off the back porch. Later he climbed up the back door, inspecting the (now undercover) garbage to see if he couldn’t acquire another piece of yummy carbohydrate goodness. And then, because it was apparently "feed a rodent processed flour day" we gave Pumpkin a club cracker, which made his whiskers twitch.

lots of circus tomorrow

I am having deep sloth issues.

I’m going to see if simply standing in my room will make any difference. Certainly sitting in front of the computer is not getting me anywhere.

Oct 4
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Pumpkin the perfect hamster’s door.

sooo tired. must sleep.

must also either NEVER read Questionable Content again, or pursue to bitter end and then never touch again. I’m having dreadful trouble stopping. (The link takes you to the most recent. There are links to the first, and then I just kept clicking next. I forgot Aerin’s flute group and she missed it. I am being a bad mother and a bad person reading about these people. aaaagh)

Oct 3
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I will simply cop to missing a day. Every time I settled down to work, someone important called that I had to talk to. I never got a chance to make my second, I still haven’t had a chance to do more than push the pennies about on the August Journal page (thank goodness I have another week, to finish August and September and start October).

I have to mention in passing that Aerin and I had a great time in NYC. We saw a green woman in Wicked, and then three blue men in Blue Man Group. It made for a colorful day. Although I am embarrassed to admit that Spamalot has spoiled me for any other romantic song that will ever be sung. The leads start staring into each other’s eyes, the music swells, and all I can think is "once in every show, there comes a song like this, it starts off sweet and low, and ends up with a kiss…" and I can’t think about what is happening right in front of me.

And then we had fun in the Museum of Natural History walking around the geology/history of the earth exhibit and patting all the rock samples they left out for exactly that purpose. I am such a science museum geek. I love when they get it right, I love seeing how people try to get across these ideas that feel like second nature to me, and I am always impressed when they come up with some new way of hammering home a point. Watching Aerin learn things without me telling her was instructive too.

I climbed fabric in circus class yesterday and today feel as though I was beaten about the shoulders and ribs with a hose. With luck, I will be less stiff in time to share a class with Flexagon this Sat. That will be fun too.

Oct 1
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A day late due to running out of postcard guts and having a mid year meltdown. OK, an equinoctial meltdown.

This month’s theme is doors. This one really opens, onto a view I wish I had…

May I be excused please? I did yoga, I cleaned stalls, I rode a geezer, I drove to Vermont and did circus climbing fabric and hanging from a trapeze, and drove home AND made a cake, and I am very very very tired.