Almost Over

Posted on 2023-09-28 by arjaybe

Credit Henri – Julien public domain


We just got word that our place is ready for us. Installed, drywalled, painted and cleaned. Water, sewer, hydro and gas all hooked up and functioning. Yesterday the cable guy came and installed internet and phone for us. Today (we’re hoping) the trailer containing out goods will be brought to the site and we can start filling the place up. This is the trailer that was threatened by fire, but escaped. (MY MANUSCRIPTS. Okay, calm down. They’re okay.)


Just a couple more days in this motel. Soon I’ll have a comfortable chair, a decent desk and fast internet. I’m practically quivering with anticipation.

rjb

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If I Could Make a Video

Posted on 2023-09-26 by arjaybe

Credit Charles Jaque CC0


If I could make a video I would do this: Begin with a person on their knees praying. Lighting chiaroscuro. Their voice can be heard but the words can’t be made out. The POV backs up to reveal another praying person, then more and more until it’s an indistinguishable mass of praying people. The sound of their prayers has increased to a roar.

Pov continues to back up until it backs right out of the earpiece of a set of headphones being worn by a man with long white hair and beard. He snatches off the headphones and drops them on his desk, saying, “Jesus Christ.” A long-haired and bearded young man in a robe is just walking past the doorway and he stops and says, “Yes, Father?”

If I could make a video that’s what I’d make, but I can’t.

rjb

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The End is in Sight

Posted on 2023-09-18 by arjaybe

Credit Henri Julien – public domain


It’s been nearly two months since my last update on our homelessness. On July 27 I talked about how I was living in a motel to take some load off of my wonderful niece. Since then I have spent some more time with her, but now I’m back in the motel. The good news is that things are happening at our new place. The exterior is finished, the water and electricity and gas are hooked up and working. We have a team on site building several sets of steps and the trailer full of our stuff is going to be parked there soon. All that remains is for the interior to be finished and the inspectors to do their job. Still no solid estimate of how long it will take, though.

In other news, I have managed to create a routine of writing that is slowly pecking away at the final chapters of my current novel. It’s not nearly as good as it would be if I had things set up the way I like them, but it’s something. I am itching to get going so I can do proper backups and get the chapters printed and get this thing finished. All that noted, I’m still keeping my perspective. I’m still living a charmed life and my troubles are minor and finite.

rjb

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