Artistic Integrity

[robertsloan2]

I've been sitting on an ever-growing stack of science fiction and fantasy novels since I published Raven Dance in 2000. Every year I participate in NaNoWriMo and usually the 3 Day Novel contest too, either officially or just by spending Labor Day Weekend writing a new short novel

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[robertsloan2]

Good luck on the move, John. I hope it's a good one. I'm happy for you that MN passed Marriage Equality. MN is just strange to me, it's like Germany, it's sometimes so liberal and sometimes so NOT. I got transition there but I also got tortured there and the climate tries to kill me. I don't fit in there. I do fiti in here in San Francisco.

Housing lady asked if my leaving the city would be acceptable. NO... I'll stay in market rate SRO rather than that. I'll get out and panhandle if I have to, this is my home.

Yeah, waiting for society to catch up to where we are at. That's about right, a wise observation by your friend. I used to be a tarot reader, don't have my cards any more but most readers I knew were wise. Dispensing paid advice for a living means you need to have a fair amount of good advice to give. Reminds me of a reader in New Orleans who looked at my hand and said "you're going to need to pay more attention to your health in the next decade." I was profoundly depressed at that observation. The last thing I wanted to do then or now is spend more time and energy paying attention to my health.

Maybe you and I start to think 'oh I should be used to it by now' about familiar stressors even when they don't go away or become situationally intense. Or ignore the entire stack of stressors if some can't be dealt with. It might come from letting go of things I can't control - that when I do that, I also forget that I'm going to get bit by it and that stress will cause flares and I'll lose time to putting up with it.

Good luck on your minor surgery too. I hope that goes well with no problems and that your move is one of the happy ones, turns out you like the new place better than the old.

[robertsloan2]

Good luck on it. Yeah, I know that "Not THAT again" feeling. Sometimes when it's the same thing again and nothing I ever did reduced it, that can hurt worse than it did when I had the energy to get angry about it. Definitely catch up on reading, that helps!