ANOTHER WEDNESDAY: THAT'S A GOOD THING

Yes, it’s another Wednesday, stuck at home. Don’t get me wrong. I’d much rather be here, getting cabin fever than somewhere else, with a real fever and more than boredom to worry about. I’m grateful for the circumstances to have a relatively safe place to shelter, comfortable and safe, with a fairly full pantry and fridge and at least some T.P. for a while.

One of the effects of this whole situation is that it reduces our lives to pretty basic things. Food, water, toilet paper, a secure place to isolate: these are the items on my must have list these days. I can even share fellowship with my God, not only through video sermons broadcast on Facebook every Sunday morning, but at anytime I want.

All the other frills that filled up my life and seemed so important before are not so important these days. A bonus of all this is having lots of time to do what I want. Some of the time I write, whenever I have the emotional energy. That’s not as easy as I would like.

The circumstances are stacked against me. Staying in like this affects my motivation, for most anything productive. The editing I need to do on my first book, Return to Rainbow Ridge, is not my favorite activity at the best of times. And the weather is getting warmer, taxing our questionable air conditioning system and draining some of the sparse energy left to me.

But I have made some progress. I’ve gone through the entire book now and documented the chapter organization and size. I’m close to 300 pages now. The next step is reviewing the chapter splits and what needs to be added to balance them out.

Writing more stuff—adding to an existing story is not the fun part for me. But I force myself to do SOMETHING every day, some progress at least.

One day at a time. That’s all any of us can do now. That and praying for a positive, quick resolution to this whole thing.