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Sunday morning and running out of March. I am finding the longer I eschew all forms of ‘mass media’, the more insulated and isolated I am becoming. As with any life condition, event or situation, there is or better ARE pros & cons, plusses and minuses and upsides and unfortunately downside.

WELL NOW THERE’S AN OPENING FOR THE AGES !

O, eye no.

So taking a brief step back, managing all THIS and maintaining some semblance of sanity becomes the trick. And frankly, I am THINKING I have it down.

READING:

Working on a simply smashing book. I have convinced myself that I am reading this one slowly intentionally to savor every sentence. Jungle of Stone MUST READ if you have any sense of adventure OR truly appreciate American literature. William Carlsen does John L Stephens & Frederick Catherwood in a fitting & just way & this is good to see such a work be a best seller. I have written Mr Carlsen already (via email) and received a reply commending him on the effort and stating my enjoyment.

WRITING:

This blog is continuing to be both therapeutic and allowing to hone my own writing skills. I have on-going correspondences & am in contact with a writing consultant (Clay R), and three writers of significant note so on that front things are progressing.

ART:

Two more shows in promising locales surfaced just last week so those are being & under consideration. With that, ‘free time’ is consumed building inventory and exploring new methods & techniques. Encaustic ‘painting’ and glass fusion for jewelry are but two such examples.

TRAVEL:

Can’t be too specific here for security & privacy so all I can say crypto is ‘MS Gulf coast’.

OTHER & MISC:

Yesterday & into the evening, I preserved for the first time asparagus. I developed a recipe from a couple of youtube videos and all jars sealed which I now get why Mom was SO THRILLED when that happened. It simply means ‘so far, so good’ and to this point, everything has been done correctly & things should, SHOULD be OK. They look so good I cannot wait to try the first jar. I ended up with four (4), two (2) larger & two (2) for individuals and no company or for two as a side. Just in case.

Wrapping up, last night I was excited about taking a longer bike ride this morning. However the new day has broken and not showing much promise. Cloudy or more accurately overcast like it might rain and more cool than warm but hard to tell. I still may go and try to stretch an hour on the touring or racing bike. Up from 40 min on the hybrid. Shifting from speed work to endurance but in an incremental & gradual fashion.

Not bad. I think I captured EVERYTHING, up-to-the-minute, and under 500 words if you are keeping score at home of such metrics.

I’m Bill & I’m out of HERE.