The Ritual

 

I finished the turtle story. This is my second short story and now I will try to think of another idea for a third.  What am I going to do with these stories?  Should I put them on the blog with some of the illustrations I've made?  Should I keep them to share with the Thirdlanders?  Should I turn them into zines when we get home?  

And speaking of writing, the Ezra Klein Show podcast today featured a chat with two authors who I'm embarrassed to say are new to me:  Kiese Laymon and Tressie McMillan Cotton.  Kiese's comments about revision were fascinating. GREAT interview!

I walked an extra long amount today.  I was looking for a war memorial statue in Parc De La Tete D'Or in order to create my own Armistice Day Recognition Ritual. I didn't know that the memorial statue is on the Island of Remembrance.  I looked for it everywhere, except for the Island of Remembrance.  I didn't know that the little island had this special name.  Another mishap of my poor French language skills.

 I bombed out on my Armistice Day Recognition Ritual, but I did listen to two stories about veterans on The Moth as I walked over to visit the turtles again. 

 I could see some of the turtles brumating in the muddy bottom of the pond.  Some other turtles were enjoying the day.  I saw one large turtle attempt to bite the head off of a younger turtle, which was exciting, but made me wonder if I perhaps have represented the turtles in too positive a light in the turtle story.