some good things make a post
Apr. 2nd, 2021 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- I acquired, a little while ago now, a copy of The Spacious Tarot from Little Red Tarot, a wee shop in Wales that is, soothingly, very earnest about stocking indie decks that showcase a variety of diversities. I've been drawing a card a day to provide prompts for reflection and meditation, and very much enjoying the process and the ritual of the thing.
- I have done some tidying of the house, including taking some things as needed it out to the garage for storage of the "well we don't want it right now but we'll probably want it eventually" variety.
- Reading-for-pleasure at the moment is very much taking the form of the Familiar and the Predictable and the Pleasant, which means that I'm now working my way through Murderbot again, so that I'll remember roughly what's happened and who all everybody is when the next one comes out toward the end of the month.
- Movement. I am really getting a lot out of the doing-Pilates-once-a-week thing. Rather to my own surprise I do have more body awareness and I am recruiting more core muscles more of the time and I can feel myself getting stronger, with the overall result that I get little frissons of exercise-related-endorphin whenever I e.g. lift up a full water jug and then lean over with it.
- The first chunk of chapter 6... exists, now? I think there are going to be three (context/background, findings, and future directions). It's a little under a page long (where I'm aiming for ~3 pages in total). On the one hand I feel rather as though I am repeating a lot of the introduction (and I will go back and check that), but on the other I am empirically reaffirming that staring at three paragraphs full of [fill-this-in-later] and words that Refuse To Go, followed by fleshing them out, followed by deleting most of them again, is in fact progress. Iterative writing still, it transpires, requires iteration, and also my process still works. Relief-gratitude-relaxation.