Ep. 267: Schedules and Sadness

Bookbinding

I've been working on my computer in an attempt to finish four 2022/2023 schedules and all four schedules are different. Different in:

• Size: A6 (pocket book) to A4 (computer paper);
• Language: Japanese, English, and Japanese & English;
• Layout: from one day for one page, to seven days on one page;
• Photos: from generic touristy to personal 

Fiction

Two novels in the making:

• Surfing Osaka (formerly Molly Bright). A chemist is kidnapped by a religious cult to make bombs. A band of strangers set out to save her. 

• The Posthumous Autobiography of the Widow Agnes Grout, Death Weaver.

Agnes can see the future when it comes to people she knows dying. She tries to warn them. Some listen to her. Some die anyway. Agnes tries to grow rich with her visions of the future, but she always fails. She is a weaver and makes her living weaving, teaching weaving, and being a fabric/weaving artist.

Sadness

In college and beyond there were three of us. We were, in our minds, witty and creative. One was a poet, one worked on Broadway, and one was me. The poet got a government job which paid the bills but didn't damper his spirit or creativity. I got a job in Japan. The one who worked on Broadway enjoyed life; he traveled, took tours and sailed on cruises to many countries, he enjoyed wine purchased in far-flung places, he collected comic books, he played John-Bonhameseque drums, he knew the best meals in the best restaurants with the best views, and the best desserts. And walked everywhere.

I Zoomed him five days ago. He died this morning. Stage Four Melanoma that spread to his brain, robbing him of his wit and his life. But not our memories of him.