2020 Life Logs, Day 97: A Writing Day
Date: Monday, April 6, 2020
Weather: Sunny and Warmer; High 56 degrees, Low 40 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
We finally had a sunny and warmish day, but I spent it indoors writing. I kept thinking I would come to a stopping place and go outside to ready the raised beds for planting. But I never reached that stopping place. I have written a book introduction and Chapter One for my book about the Voyage of Windbird and today I started Chapter Two. After thinking about writing this book for the eight years since Mark and I arrived back home, I find it amazing that I am now actually writing. Taking the Newcomers Memoir Writing class that started in late January got me started, but it took the slow down in life imposed by the coronavirus to actually get me to buckle down. The book introduction sets the stage. Chapter One is currently titled, “There He Was.” It is about meeting Mark. Chapter Two that I focused on today tackles the question of why and how we made the decision to sail around the world. It was great fun today to go back and try to reconstruct our first off-shore sail from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine in 1989. The fact that I survived that trip sets the stage for me thinking seriously about sailing around the world. Tomorrow and Wednesday I will continue writing and, hopefully, do a little gardening. Then on Thursday and Friday, writing will be put aside to focus on the Goldstone move from 60 Vidal to 43 Grasmere. I’m actually looking forward to that distraction. Today I saw a replay of a White House news briefing this weekend when Dr. Birx said that she thinks this week is most crucial in the battle against the coronavirus. She recommended that people not even go the grocery store or drug store during this week. I haven’t been in a grocery store since mid-March and don’t need to go now, but the tone in her voice chilled me. This is really scary, so maybe dropping everything and just working hard at moving is a good thing.
