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How many antidotes are necessary?

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Hearts hand-quilted during this summer, including one from last night. I'm not posting an excerpt, merely wishing to get my head around a piece of writing, all seventeen chapters of it, that kinda emerged outta the blue, or the gray, as today along the North Coast it's seriously MARINE LAYER DAY. Like the marine layer is super-peeved at unceremoniously being shoved aside in recent weeks for plenteous sunshine and is asserting itself in a You Can't Touch Me sort of way. I could giggle at that marine layer, which won't last forever as it's already close to Mid-August, but this isn't a Where has summer gone? post. This is a How many antidotes are necessary? entry, as again I write a chapter littered with spiritual references and emotional upheaval. I have a post waiting, entitled The message of reconciliation . It's based on a line in an aged hymn, Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven , which like many ancient hymns is merely the first line of the lyrics. ...
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Still writing the antidote

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Peace Round the World quilt yesterday on the work table. Well, I've read over the last five chapters of On Being Brave , so maybe tomorrow I'll write a new one. Once again, I am floored at how when allowing the Spirit to do the heavy lifting, some nice work comes together. Heavy on the character-driven fiction, a little sci-fi thrown in for good measure, pressed down, then overflowing with grace, forgiveness, and love. That's my genre-jam in a nutshell. For backstory, read Home and Far Away: The Enran Chronicles Book Four . Ignore the Book Four. Home and Far Away can be read as a standalone, though if you want all the backstory, read Far Away from Home: The Enran Chronicles Book Three . Feel free to read Book Four first. And have a wonderful Wednesday!   Chapter 16   Gilly and Ross arrived at SFO on Wednesday afternoon. Richard met them, but Gilly drove on the way back to Jumpville. Ross peppered Richard with questions about Hugh’s conversion to Catholicism while Gill...
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Writing the antidote

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Mama Doe and fawns behind our kitchen, from 5 August 2026. I'm rereading On Being Brave because the grandsons have gone home and in a day or so, I'll have time to hopefully complete this.... It's a novel, plain and simple, this section set in summer of 1999 concerning the Lund family. Not a short story, not even a novella. But it will be part of a collection of tales linking four arcs of a series . Huh. Didn't expect that. Nor did I plan to share the following excerpt, but in starting at Chapter 12, well, this chapter is why I write what I do. It's an antidote to a smidgen of the negative aspects of this world. It's one antidote, lol, but indicative of the underlying themes of my fiction. That shite happens, but if we are brave, our hearts recover larger than previously. More able to love. More able to forgive, which at times might be more important. And certainly more capable of moving forward. Anyway, here's Chapter 12. Enjoy!   Chapter 12 I don’t car...
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