This was just before sunrise. There is a little bit of wind, 9 F/-6 with wind chill, the pipes have froze. I had set water aside just in case. Kind of in the hopes that if you prepare, it won't happen. There is the tiniest of drips on the end of the faucet in the bathroom...hope that is a good sign.
There wasn't much making yesterday, but some reading. That's the other part of my revised goal...looking at the connections between making and research. A lot of my reading is research, a desire to know and find connections.
I am a voracious reader (bet that surprises no one). I read at least an hour a day, often more. It can also take me a year to finish a book. I skip around a lot. I am currently diving in and out of: Saving Time by Jenny Odell, The Creative Spark by Agustin Fuentes, The Future we Choose by by Christiana Figures and Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Real Change Sharon Salzberg.
I will probably finish the books by Odell and Fuentes this month, but maybe not Real Change and The Future We Choose. I do want to finish them all at some point. When I finish reading something is in no way indicative of how much I like it.
Sometimes starting a book is like taking a test bite of something you are cooking/eating. Sometimes it would be better in another mix, sometimes you want to savor it for as long as you can.
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams just arrived from the library. I will probably read it all the way through before I return it. I read the first chapter about a year ago.
Sentences and ideas that caught me:
From Saving Time by Jenny Odell, about moss, "Most of all, it has been a reminder of time: not the monolithic, empty substance imagined to wash over each of us alone, but the kind that starts and stops, bubbles up, collects in the cracks, and folds into mountains. It is the kind that waits for the right conditions, that holds always the ability to begin something new."
From The Creative Spark, by Agustin Fuentes: We are, first and foremost, the species singularly distinguished and shaped by creativity."
These ideas give me hope...