Books and Buzzards

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I need a place to set down thoughts;

I'm weary of carrying so many.

"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."
A quotation of that variety appeared in my life this week. For me, it meant to quit forever-postponing ay progress with sharing my writing through books. The nature and proliferation of books is advancing at such a rate that my creations may not find a home in the marketplace soon. But that is a worry not worth worrying about; that will take care of itself.

Who else reads books at a rate like mine? My business and social friends say, generally, that they read few. Of course, they have other information channels, many of which are visual.

My favorite book of the moment is The Gift, a translation of Kabir poems. With any poetry book, I am always delighted to find 2 or 3 poems between the covers that I thrill to. In this case, it was almost all, and I have begun a full re-read of the texts.

Tomorrow, March 15, is Buzzard Day. I think it was chosen to coincide with the Ides of March. But, being a self-appointed Buzzard Lady, I intend to read some of my buzzard poems at tomorrow's Professional Wordsmiths meeting.

I tried to insert a picture of a buzzard and had great difficulty getting size and placement right. Then I realized that I should probably be using a creative commons pic. But I can't figure out how to upload one of those.

I talked my WORDS for Hard Times book possibilities over with a friend on Friday morning. I want to set some of Ron's ideas down here as a way to remember them and refer to them later. He suggests that I print off the version that I have now and begin selling it and/or showing it to people and organizations I already work with now. Offer it to non-profit groups as a fundraising opportunity for them. Follow my own best guesses about when and whether to use a publishing service like Wisdom House. That applies to every other step of the process, including cover design.

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