Wind: Rein
It’s cold outside today, and windy. The sky is the royalist of blues. Last night this same wind blew a storm away until all that was left was the kind of sunset that bursts my heart wide open. There were just enough clouds, half of them streaked with blacks and grays, to bounce back all the color–pinks and tangerines, yellows and white. And the moon watched with me. She was huge. I came out of the library just as it was all happening, just as the wind and sinking sun and sky were in mid-stride, and felt this rush of gratitude and gladness. I smiled and wrapped my coat tighter and said thanks for the chance to be alive. I pictured the vast universe around it all, and me on this tiny rock, orbiting the sun, getting to take such a moment in. I felt small in the best way, and unfathomably lucky.
I’m on a kind of role with my novel this week, yesterday’s pre-sunset session not excluded, and am hungry to give myself the added boost of more progress than I can make during my few afternoon sessions alone. So I’m knitting time together from other places in my days, and have decided to take a short break from blogging as a way of putting time and focus more directly on my book. I have months to go before this project is through, and I don’t want to step away from this space for that long (I love it here, and would miss it here too much), so let’s start with a month of sabbatical and see what kind of progress I can make on the book in that time.
Much love to all of you, and a wish for winds to blow into the distant sky what you most need cleared away right now, to bring the kind of beauty and perspective your heart most needs to take in.
Kristin
January 5th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Blessings on the writing! I have been wondering how your novel was progressing. So glad you are giving it the time and space it needs to flourish. I look forward to hearing how your sabbatical goes.
January 5th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
well, if the words are half as beautiful as what you just wrote today on your post, i REALLY look forward to reading your novel….your words are always so well put together, but not in an obviously put-together way….like a flowing, spoken thought, and so honest, but not in a revealing-everything way….i will be sending prayers your way…
January 8th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Traveling mercies to you as you embark on the journey of finishing your novel, Kristin. May words and emotions and thoughts flow freely and frequently. May your computer be strong and of good courage. And may you bless us again in a month’s time with your thoughts, impressions, and commentary on the world in which you live. Blessings to you on your journey, Gail
January 8th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Hooray!! I’m so thrilled to hear that you are giving yourself the space to move in the direction that calls you, Kristin. Wishing you all that best nourishes your journey!
January 10th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Kristin,
Write away! Hope this time of sabbatical offers you just the sort of nourishing space you need. Cheers, Trish
January 13th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
i love those moments when the feeling of being tingly-vitally-alive collides with natural beauty and becomes gratitude of the purest sort. i’m glad you can usher in some space and deliberateness for your writing. remember, you’ve got quite the cheering section!
January 21st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
I’ll miss you Kristin. I have really enjoyed reading your blog. I’ll continue to come back to see if you’ve updated. And I wish you the best on your novel. At the very least, you’ll have to post updates on how it’s going.
Blessings to you!
January 29th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Thank you everyone so much for your encouragments. I feel like I’m flying this month! Who needs drugs when you can WRITE??? :)
In the interest of balancing my life back out, though, I will be happily returning to this space in about a week. Talk to you soon (if not here, then on your blogs)!
February 4th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Blessings on each word!