The High Chair
It's a warm spring-into-summer sort of day here in Ohio today. Nice enough to go to our local park and sit on a swing-seat with a good book! The book in question, currently, is Mary Karr's The Liars' Club. I don't normally comment on a book until I've finished reading it, but I am so close to the end, and so excited about this book--I'll say a couple of things. It's a dynamic book--so well-crafted by a very skillful writer, skillful enough, I have to say, that you don't see any of the strategies or scaffolding that make it so good! Her use of language, image and detail are spot-on. And the pacing (not often discussed about novels but very important) is also spot-on. She knows just how much to cover of a scene, and exactly the perfect moment to let it go., so that you get those echoing reverberations set up, like those of a choir in a vast cathedral when the voices have ceased but the music somehow continues to float there for a while. It makes one shudder with the perfection of it.Everyone and his uncle is writing memoirs these days, I know--but there are a handful of the very best, and Mary Karr's is one of those.
It's my day off today--sort of. There is something I have to do later, that I've never done before, which is to "babysit" the library where I work whilst a filmcrew comes in to do some shooting for a movie. I have actually been an 'extra" in a small amateur film once before. This was at a women's coffee house in a church, and the film was by, about and for women. I don't remember the story--but I do remember that we were all assured it would only be an hour or so. Hah! Anyone who knows about filming would have laughed. Several hours later--I think dawn was coming up in the east-- we finally made an escape from that place. And I was way past caring if the lighting was right this time! So that was the sum total of my film career til now. This time, it's "just" a matter of making sure nothing gets damaged and no-one gets hurt. It had better be over well before dawn or there may well be some damage of a sort the Board of Trustees couldn't even imagine in their wildest dreams! (Do Boards of Trustees have wild dreams?)
Well, enough of this--if I survive, you'll see me back here again in a few days.
Went to my "Thursday Sunrise ACOA" meeting this morning, to set up the room. There was a baby's high-chair amongst the chairs in the circle, which I left there because it seemed appropriate! Well, people getting into recovery these days are getting younger and younger. It was nice to see the smiles or looks of puzzlement as folks came in for the meeting.
There should always be something unexpected in one's day!
Have a great day full of contentment and some nice surprises.
~Sea Change
posted by Sea Change @ 10:04 AM
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Nice writing. You look great !
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