Category: travel

the water

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Today, I return to the cold depths of Lake Temagami.

I cannot wait.

It’s like anywhere we go with the water – rivers, lakes, oceans or otherwise.

It is the lungs of the earth. The heartbeat.

There is no better way to commune.

Target: 1600 words
Written: 1611 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Dynamo 5 22-23, Invincible 64-65
Music: Friction, Baby, Better Than Ezra (what a dick you must have been to have someone name a band after how much better than are than you)

yeah, that’s what i expected

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The beautiful country, but not a second alone. Stealing pages as one steals breath in the ocean, with nothing to keep afloat.

Vacations from my vacation.

Peace from the loveliness.

Breath, from the deep.

Target: 1600 words
Written: 1060 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Stand, Stephen King (why I chose this on a week I knew I would struggle to read even one page a day, I don't know)
Comics: Noble Causes 39, Brit v2 12, Invincible 59, Dynamo 5 0
Music: Freaky Styley, Red Hot Chili Peppers

drive time

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As always, it’s a lot of time not doing the things I would like, but it’s still travel, and movement, and not shitty.

Would that I could find a few more moments for reading, and writing.

And silence.

Silence.

Target: 1600 words
Written: 2218 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Stand, Stephen King (here we go)
Comics: Invincible 57-58, The Astounding Wolf-Man 11, Dynamo 5 19
Music: Freaks, Pulp

bodychecked

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Sideways. The last two days have been insane.

Thank god we’re off on vacation. I’ve had it.

Oh wait. That’s just as busy.

Target: 1600 words
Written: 905 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Faded Sun: Shon'jir, C.J. Cherryh
Comics: Brit v2 10-11, Noble Causes 38, Invincible 56
Music: Freaked Out And Small (Demos), Presidents Of The United States Of America (in demo form)

today, i feel gravity

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Not the seriousness of the situation, but the sensation of being pulled down, to my knees, to the floor, to sink in and let my mind bleed out my ears into insensate despair.

I am fighting.

I am not yet losing, but it’s real fuckin’ close.

The kindness thing I can do for myself today is breathe. Continue to breathe.

I’m not sure what the trigger is – probably the monstrous headache I suffered through all day yesterday, and the copious amounts of Advil required to stave off the smallest part of it, plus all the stress of getting everything ready to go away for a week, which should be joyful and peaceful, but is often too busy and people-filled to be so.

Would that I could live in the woods, and release books for free.

Or hide them away, to be discovered after I’m gone, and released to posthumous brilliance.

To the floor, it be, then.

Target: 1600 words
Written: 2383 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: The Faded Sun: Shon'jir, C.J. Cherryh (perhaps it's just the knowledge of my inferiority)
Comics: Noble Causes 37, Brit v2 9, Invincible 55, Dynamo 5 18
Music: Freaked Out And Small, The Presidents Of The United States Of America (but hopefully, not this last one)

tired, but triumphant

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I’m catching up and getting things done. Which is good, because we’re about to go away for a week, and I need to make sure I’ve got it all covered.

Temagami, once more we return.

Once more, I dream of your cold and deep embrace.

Target: 1600 words
Written: 2273 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne
Comics: Brit v2 7, Noble Causes 35, Invincible 50-51
Music: Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand (yes, the actual guy, back from the dead and ready to do it all over again)

i miss portugal

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But I don’t miss roundabouts. What a ridiculous concept.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 774 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: Sum: Forty Tales Of The Afterlife, David Eagleman (what a wonderful concept, or rather, forty concepts - I particularly love the idea of God as microbe, so small that it thinks nothing of us, because we're too big to even comprehend)
Comics: Gen 13 v2 13A-C, 14
Music: August 27, 1991, Aladin, Bremen, Nirvana

homeward bound (portugal)

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It promises to be a long day of travel today, ending with a joyous reunion with our dogs and cats, all of whom will greet us like we’re returning from war after they thought we were KIA.

Sometimes, love is truly the greatest thing of all (especially when it involves snuggling kittens and overexcited puppies).

Oh, and I begin a thing.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 1865 words, novel: Father Lightning

Read: Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Comics: Gen 13 1-4
Music: 1985 Demo Tape, They Might Be Giants

back from vacation and ready to rock

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Or at least, will be tomorrow. Valentines dinner with my wife and daughter tonight in Lisbon, return tomorrow and then start posting all this stuff I’ve been writing while I’ve been gone.

It’s short story palooza this week.

Hold on to your gitch, because after that, it’s book number three.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 987 words, short story: Ultra Mundane

Read: Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Comics: Fables 160-162
Music: 1973, AC/DC (with Dave Evans)

carvoeiro

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Well, we found the place Canadians meet on Thursday, weirdly, on Thursday, without even trying. Good for us.

Plus, I found a super cool looking abandoned restaurant (marine shop? garden?) and it was incredible.

What a beautiful goddamn country.

Target: 1500 words
Written: 1133 words, short story: Ultra Mundane

Read: Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Comics: Fables 152-155
Music: 1969: Velvet Underground Live, Vol. 1, The Velvet Underground