So much depends on so much …

My Thursday reading draws near … and I notice a lot is changing in my life — personal and professional — just in the last few days. Things have gotten a little skewed, weird, I feel out of place … this makes me feel I am close to answering something. Close to realizing something I have been wanting to realize. I can feel it nipping at my ankles with tender care.

I have dear friends coming in to town tomorrow and I am so looking forward to feeling that great closeness one feels when surrounded by those who care for you and you for them … when they’re like family, an unconditional something there … burning deep … it is so helpful for me. I wish Aaron was coming as well … miss you! I don’t mean to be greedy … I am so grateful to have my friends coming at all … so grateful! So fortunate. So excited.

I just discovered poet Frederick Seidel and by accident … fascinatingly true and grim accounts on our emotional muck, his in particular. It is funny and endearing to me that someone like Seidel who is very private and rarely does interviews or photographs would have the extremity that he does in his poetry. I love dichotomies … maybe that is part of what nips at my heels so tenderly.

I Need a "Networking" Budget!

So after my interview with the local newspaper, I needed a pint … even though my funds are indeed limited till the glorious morn (payday). I re-met a Spanish guitarist … I say re-met because we had indeed met before and lost one another’s contact info. We desire a collaboration … Spanish guitar and poetry … what could be more potentially wonderful?

I also met another person who is going to come to my reading next Thursday … and she liked my book, Small Murders. Made a sell … a contact … a moment … a collaboration all over a pint. Nice! I need to have a “networking” budget!

For anyone out there in Kalamazoo, I might as well plug the upcoming reading: Thursday, January 11th at 9:00P (doors will open at 8:30) at Fire at 1249 Portage Street in Kalamazoo. $3 bargain cover charge and books for sale after reading. Fun for all … I kinda promise.

P.S. Sorry, Carl for spelling your name wrong … I hate when people do that to me. But your name is rather complicated! I am making excuses … but still, LUCKY YOU! Cheers.