A Week of Poetry and taking some downtime

It’s been an exciting week for poetry events, with a long trip over to Bainbridge Island for a book club visit on Monday, Lit Crawl in Seattle on Thursday, so I’m totally looking forward to a weekend of reading and looking for houses.

Lit Crawl Seattle was a ton of fun – besides the LA Review reading at Capitol Cider (a delicious and gluten-free bar/restaurant, by the way!) with Jean, Phil, and Maggie, which I thought was really high-energy and good, with lots of clapping, laughing, cheering (and look for it up on KUOW eventually -we got recorded!) – I went to the Kundiman reading to see Neil Aitken and Rick Barot, and then to the after-party where I couldn’t do much dancing (ankles still troublesome) but got to see a lot of people at the super-crowded bookfair upstairs at FRED Wildlife Refuge.

And now for some downtime – catching up with friends, family, and reading – and this great blue heron on my street is a reminder that if you look closely, there are miraculous things all around you, even in the middle of the crazy. Sometimes it’s the little things that give you the greatest boost – a little phone conversation with a friend, the glimpse of a heron in a pond you walk by every day.

We have Halloween and birthday parties and get-togethers scheduled all over the next week, so today, I’m looking at some houses, posting this, and committing to spending some extra time 1. reading 2. maybe writing? I got a little potential good news yesterday that I can share shortly too, which was nice after a month of a lot of rejections! And I got paid $$ (yay, speculative magazines that pay!) from my Eye to the Telescope poems, which was also a needed boost to my poetry self-esteem! So think good house and health thoughts for me as we wind into fall…