64730 words

[ritaxis]

Of which something over 1200 are today. I've been dawdling. Frank got me a bunch of other inspirational songs:

All God's Creatures Got a Place in the Choir
Pastures of Plenty (Alison Krause and Union Station. I like them, and I love this song, but I don't think I like the way they're doing this song)
Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
How Can I Keep from Singing

And, also:
The Wicked Messenger (Bob Dylan doing it, though I think maybe I like Marley's Ghost's version better)
I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Tell me frankly. Isn't this song a complaint about Bob Dylan's landlord or father in law or something?)

But the other thing I've been doing, besides playing Atomica, is working out a really complete set of memorial customs. And I went back and tightened the ratchets on the epidemic, which had struck me as sort of an undischarged pistol on the mantelpiece up until now.

I have about four paragraphs and the chapter is done: and not much more than that before the book is done.

Anybody want to beta?

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Have you heard Eva Cassidy's version of "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread"? It's truly fabulous.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Frank found that, but neither of us knew who she was. Now I have to tell him to get it for me.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

She was a local DC singer, "discovered" just before she died of cancer, so there are a lot of CDs that duplicate parts of each other, mixed after she died. For the best of the best -- Golden Thread, People Get Ready, Fields of Gold, Autumn Leaves, What a Wonderful World -- I like Eva Cassidy Live at Blues Alley. But the other CD I like, Songbird, has four of the performances on Live, plus Wade in the Water, Wayfaring Stranger, Songbird, Time is a Healer, I Know You by Heart, and a breathtaking rendition of Over the Rainbow.