phyncke

Hi all - had a good quiet Sunday. Started out with my Sunday book group - it is a family and friends thing and we are doing readings on race in America. Currently we are focusing on James Baldwin and reading his collected essays and a book called - Begin Again, James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. I have always wanted to read Baldwin and know more about him so I am really enjoying this. James Baldwin was an amazing writer - and his writings still totally apply to the current situation in the USA - he made statements on police issues and race relations that are so prophetic. Very interesting.

I took my three mile walk up to the Claremont Hotel and it is feeling really good - the uphill part of the walk is getting easier and my breathing is better on that. Less huffing and puffing. We are getting some rain this week so it will be a challenge to get my walks in. I will have to be creative. I think we have rain tomorrow and Wednesday so I will have to work around that. I will just have to deal.

I did a little work on my story today - it is getting there. Having fun with it now. I hope it is good. I really do. I never know if a story is good when I am working on it so I always have doubts about it. Anyways. It is up to about 3000 words - longer than I thought it would be but not too long.
I do have a bunch left to do so hope it does not get too long.

I have one more day off tomorrow - no work. I am glad about that. They gave us an extra curtailment day. I hope to use it to work on my story and get that in better shape. Will see how I do.

Hope all is well with you there and that you are enjoying 2021 so far. Keeping on. Today is JRR Tolkien's birthday - yay!

To the professor!