One person drives, one person reads. This amount of concentration on a necessary task keeps our focus at ‘reader’ level instead of editing—ie, it breaks a writerly obsession with ‘what-next’ and installs a ‘what’s actually there’ focus.
And we try to have a destination that’ll let us walk around, rest the voice, etc, which is a safety and health thing.
So we went to Dry Falls, at the end of Banks Lake, associated with Grand Coulee. This is a site associated with the Missoula Flood ca. 11000 BC, where glacial meltwater broke an ice dam and created one of the largest floods in the geologic record. Dry Falls was, at that time, 5x the length of Niagara, and the water was many times deeper. The cliffs that contained it a little upstream are 900 feet high, so what went over the brink was much deeper than what goes over Niagara. It flowed toward the modern Columbia, and created geologic markers all over this end of Washington. The way Niagara makes the ground shake—one can only imagine the effect of watching that go.
Now there’s only a chain of lakes, some in curiously round form, potholes created by rock rolling about a depression in the chaotic force of the water. Some are 50 feet deep.
It’s quite a sight. Wiishu went with us, and one of these days Jane will likely have the photo-adventure up on her site.
Homecoming Games?
No. Explorer. Reviewing details to get them right. 😉
You join Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Goethe, and Mozart, and probably many others, in moving to enhance creativity, according to PBS’ YouTube BrainCraft ep Can You Boost Your Creativity? I happened to watch it yesterday.
I recall you take Acetaminophen, and I came across an interesting article about it a few days ago. It not only reduces physical pain but also mental pain. Not only that, but it reduces mental pleasure. It seemingly damps everything down, which might not be a good thing for a writer. Worse, it’s a completely invisible effect to the person affected. Next, they’re going to test other pain relievers. Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/15/health/study-acetaminophen-dulls-joy/index.html
Does anyone know a word for the following state of mind? I would like a word for when you’re happy, even joyful, but in the back of your mind, you know you have unpleasant tasks ahead so there’s a shadow back there. For example, you finish a book–huzzah!–but you know you have to do an edit pass tomorrow. It’s not quite melancholy, which is predominantly negative. Thanks in advance if anyone can help me with this.
The word is “procrastinating!” At least, it is for me….
It also can be described as “the Sunday night feeling” when you are relaxed and happy now but know that Monday and work is right around the corner. A very different, and unpleasantly anticipatory feeling that makes Sunday evenings much different than Friday or Saturday ones.
Maybe “trepidaceous”?
I’m looking for certain knowledge of future unpleasantness; trepidation implies fear, uncertainty. The most concise I’ve gotten to is “shadowed happiness”, but that isn’t dead on. I guess after discovering “velleity”, volition so weak it doesn’t lead to action, I think there’s a word for anything.
Foreboding is one.
But yes, I am careful with painkillers. It has to be actual pain on a distracting or limiting level before I take a pill. Routine consumption of same is probably not good…but I have vices. Coffee is way overconsumed.
Only got 30 tablets, two every 6 hours, and I didn’t take them on Saturday morning, afternoon, or Sunday morning. I take them only as necessary, but the doctor says it’s easier to stay ahead of the pain than it is to catch up. With a 3″ incision in my left hand, and 3 other incisions in the forearm, and the removal of a bone and interpositioning of a tendon to replace that bone, yes there is some residual pain. Right now, I’m taking standard 500mg acetaminophen when needed. The Percocet is almost gone, down to 2 tablets. I’ll take them if I need them….pain is at a tolerable level after 7 days.
Vacation blues?
I believe there’s a chapter in my “Roadside Geology of Montana” that describes the opening of that ice dam. I’ll have to back and look it up. Right now, still recovering from prescription doses of Percocet….the lower G-I tract rebels most viciously…TMI.
“openings”, it happened a few dozen times.
THis has an explanation of the traces left all over the eastern PNW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchet_Formation
And this is the ‘falls.’ Ever wanted to see what a falls looks like underneath? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Falls