mindseas ([info]mindseas) wrote,
@ 2008-05-03 18:52:00
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Inspiration
Today Louise went to the Sakura festival at the Brooklyn Botannical Gardens, but Ben didn't go because Vikke was busy with an art project all day.

I didn't go either, but I had a nice run along the tow path. Saw one fuzzy gosling paddling in the canal with its parents, and a Baltimore Oriole. I've always thought black and orange made a beautiful combination.

The wild turkeys were in the wooded part of the backyard, the tom display on a fallen tree while the hen investigated the ground with the same two-steps-forward-scratch, two-steps-back-look routine as a chicken.

I worked on a new short story, "Book of Fire," which was inspired by my reading about Philip K. Dick in Wikipedia after someone mentioned "what happened to him" on OWW, along with the ideographic language in Walter Jon Williams' Aristoi and my own childhood fantasy that my father had a special book with a flaming cover.



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[info]indigo_room
2008-05-05 12:55 am UTC (link)
"Book of Fire" sounds good!

Wild turkeys in the back yard--how wonderful. I can only imagine how my little cat Xerxes, who, when I take him out for walks on his leash, likes to get all fierce and feline and sneak up on the towhees (he never gets closer than about six feet to one of them), would react to the sight of such big, bold birds. No doubt he'd bolt back into the house.

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[info]mindseas
2008-05-05 01:46 am UTC (link)
Yuki, our small white cat, used to chase the turkeys, until one day they chased her. Now they seem to have established a "live and let live" policy.

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