Fri. April 10, 2026: Spring Sunshine
image courtesy of Juraj Varga from Pixabay Friday, April 10, 2026
Waning Moon
Sunny and cold
Friday! I’m excited for the weekend. Even though I have taxes, I’m hoping to get a lot of sleep in.
I was actually in the flow enough so I could get some work done on BETTING MAN before the online meditation group (I’d done my own morning yoga, meditation, and free write session already, with the moon smiling down on me). That felt good, to finally get past the chapter with which I’ve been wrestling for far too long.
Charlotte was delighted with online meditation. It’s her favorite part of the week.
After meditation and breakfast, I headed off to the grocery store for a light grocery shop, and then ran another errand before swinging by the library for a drop-off/pick-up.
Home in time for #FreelanceFriends, which was fun. I got a little bit of work done on the ghostwriting, but also did my federal taxes. I started the state, but that form is intentionally nonsensical, and I was too tired to focus on it. I got some planting done, so that was good.
Annoyed, but not surprised that Amazon is cutting off service to their older Kindles. My Fire is from, I think, 2014 or 2015, so maybe I can use it for another year or two. I won’t get another Kindle when they cut me off. I may get some other kind of tablet, and just have a Kindle app on it, although I’m sure, eventually, they will end that and only let Kindle books be read on their own devices. And then I will get my ebooks elsewhere.
And people wonder why I refuse to do KDP, either as an author or a reader.
My Llewellyn editor asked me to be a part of the 2028 Witches’ Companion, so I will form the ideas I’ve been playing with into something cohesive and send them early next week. I usually send her two or three ideas, and she picks the one she feels will work best in context.
I got my act together, put on Real People Pants, and walked up to the library for the Trustees meeting. It was a lovely spring evening, and definitely worth walking. However, not enough Trustees showed up to actually have the meeting, so it was canceled, although we didn’t mind having a half hour just to hang out and chat.
Walked home, and got to play with a lot of dogs out on their evening walks. I don’t know the names of many people in the extended neighborhood, but I know the dogs, and they all know me and are always so happy to see me. I got to read on the porch for a bit, and then had the online library cohort meeting (Charlotte, once again, was delighted). We are a good group, and even scattered all over the country as we are, we have cohesion.
It took me a bit to settle down after the meeting, and I slept reasonably well. I was up early this morning, fed everyone, and hauled the laundry to the laundromat. There were other people there this morning, but we all hung out in our own cars as things washed and dried, and were pleasant in passing as we switched machines, so it was fine.
Home, and did the freewrite session, trying to work out one of the pieces that’s on deadline at the end of the month. It’s a short piece, but sometimes those are harder to pin down.
I will do my yoga and meditation at the end of the day today, rather than in the morning. Tessa gets annoyed when I change up the routine, and she hates it that I don’t go to the laundromat on the same day every week so she can plan, but hey, life is hard.
On today’s agenda: folding and putting away laundry (which I will do as soon as I post this), working on BETTING MAN, working on the ghostwriting, working on my Llewellyn pitches, contacting my elected officials, working on taxes, doing some more planting.
Tomorrow should be a fairly quiet day, except for housework and taxes and contest entries. Sunday, a colleague at the gallery is doing an event in the afternoon, so I will go down for that. I hope to get in some work on BETTING MAN, and maybe on the two pieces on deadline. If the light is good, maybe I can sew a little, too.
The next few weeks ramp up as far as commitments go, so I have to pace myself. The ghostwriting deadlines will tighten over that time, too, so I’m also trying to leave myself enough thinking time.
Have a great weekend, and we’ll catch up on the other side.
#freelance #laundry #meditation #Mindfulness #planning #planting #writing
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