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Ink In My Coffee @[email protected] · 2026-08-13 · 11:45 UTC

Thurs. Aug. 13, 2026: Positioning

Photo by Devon Ellington

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Waxing Moon

Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde

Cloudy, foggy, muggy

You can read the latest on the garden over on Gratitude & Growth.

I kept feeling like I was behind yesterday, when it was barely past 9 AM. I was FINE. I followed up on emails, I got the household chores done, I got the garbage out.

I spent most of the morning working on the collage. I cut the fabric, trimmed it with pinking shears, wrapped it to the canvas and fastened it with novelty pushpins. I then printed the chosen photographs in different sizes and started playing with them. There was photo editing and re-sizing involved several times, but I think I have what I want. I need washi tape to fasten the photos to the fabric/canvas – I think that will work better than glue. Of course, I have to FIND the right washi tape today, but that’s today. I photographed the arrangement, just in case something shifts before it’s fastened down.

The photo for this day’s post is the fabric on the canvas, before I put the photos on it. The colors are similar to those used in the park where the photos were taken.

I dealt with a bunch of admin. I did some work on the play, but I’m behind where I’d like to be on it. I mean, I’d like the draft to be done, but we are not there yet. I submitted a different play to a company with whom I’d like to work next season. Did a little work on the Nina Bell series. Got out an LOI.

After all of that, I switched over to the ghostwriting. It was slow, due to research needs, but the work itself was solid. I am behind where I hoped to be, though. I won’t be able to make up much ground in today’s session, so I’ll have to do so tomorrow. I’m still on track to make the deadline, but I’d hoped to get it in a few days ahead.

I received two book review assignments from that client, so I have three to turn around in the coming week. I haven’t had much work from them these past months, so it’s welcome. I’d like to be able to invoice the batch by the middle of next week.

I cooked dinner, did the dishes, and got dressed for the evening. I drove up to Faith Church in Pownal, VT. My friend Molly gave a talk on Grace Greylock Niles, sponsored by the Pownal Historical Society. Grace was a local botanist, teacher, nurse, artist, and poet who lived in the area. As an independent woman fighting for her land against richer men with power in the community (such as a local judge and a doctor), she had a rough slog, and wound up living her last years in a mental health facility in Brattleboro. That’s an oversimplification of her fascinating story, but Molly’s essay will be in a literary magazine later this fall, and sometime next year, published as a stand-alone. Molly’s research process is always fascinating, and the way she humanizes people nearly lost to history is wonderful.

My friend Gloria from the gallery was there, as were several A4A cohort colleagues, along with people interested in local history and curious. It was a lovely evening.

It was still light enough for me to have a fairly stress-free drive back, although downtown was closed off for (yet another) festival. It’s great to see people out and about having fun.

My parking space was free, so I wiggled back into it, and headed upstairs for a cup of tea and some time with the cats before bedtime.

Day 3 of Legs Up the Wall pose. I slept better, but I still woke up at 3! Well, Charlotte woke me up at three, hurling a hairball. The cats are already shedding their summer fur and growing in the winter fur, so thank goodness we have a working vacuum again.

Morning routine was fine. I figured out some stuff in the free-write. I note in the margin to which project each day’s notes are relevant, which helps me find things. I do try to type up notes when appropriate every few weeks, and then I mark them in red. “T” means I typed it and it’s in the project file. A red checkmark means I used it in a piece (and sometimes didn’t need to type it for a project file). It makes the notebooks useable research repositories.

Today, I have an early meeting up at the Clarksburg Library about the upcoming author event, then it’s time to do the week’s grocery shopping and other errands (like finding washi tape). Tonight, I have a library trustee meeting, and then I’ll probably stop by the “social” the library is hosting, which will still be going on outside.

In between there, I will work on the collage, the play, and the ghostwriting. Tomorrow is a more focused day at the desk, if all things go to plan, without meetings and other interruptions.

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