Roselle- I thoroughly enjoyed your narration, particularly when you got to this part here: "I love the first floor bedroom, even if it is rather alarming to open the long French windows to the Home Meadow and the flowering sweet chestnut trees and nearly step out into the beautiful middles of nothing." Something about this description is very vivid and alive. Chestnut always helps. :)
So pleased that you are finding something of worth in Diggers and Dreamers, and, more importantly, that you are continuing on the path the book recounts one very short step along. My Letters morphed into writings on local history and geography for the Historical Society, with a recent short book. I'm also working on Odysseos' Island, a second novel set in Greece, after my Dionysos' Island. It will conclude on Ithaka, which has a nice poetic resonance. But fear at the current rate I'll be finished before it is! A continuing need to write gets me to my desk. I do hope volume 2 of A Spell is going well, and that you enjoyably continue your important work. Very best wishes to you both.
Roselle, I'm very much enjoying your story, your 'swerve' to the West and then your digging in - in a no-dig way, of course! - to Brittany. I look forward to more episodes.
Keith, how lovely to hear from you! I'd love to know how you are and what you're writing; and what happened to Letter from Lancaster? You might be pleased to know I'm about to pick up Diggers and Dreamers (to read for the 3rd time). It's iconic.
Wow, what a journey! Our little homestead is similar in several ways (again), and I am pleasantly surprised to find someone living a parallel, unusual path on another continent! 🤣 We found our lovely little piece of wood-and-field, all overgrown and six-years-abandoned, with a quaint cabin that had "good bones" and a nice little wood stove for heating and cooking (and bathing for a solid few weeks until we got some plumbing finished!) I so enjoy hearing your story and your beautiful outlook on land and life :)
Roselle- I thoroughly enjoyed your narration, particularly when you got to this part here: "I love the first floor bedroom, even if it is rather alarming to open the long French windows to the Home Meadow and the flowering sweet chestnut trees and nearly step out into the beautiful middles of nothing." Something about this description is very vivid and alive. Chestnut always helps. :)
Ah thank you Thalia! - A story waiting to happen :-)
And a story that needed a narrator like yourself, Roselle. :)
So pleased that you are finding something of worth in Diggers and Dreamers, and, more importantly, that you are continuing on the path the book recounts one very short step along. My Letters morphed into writings on local history and geography for the Historical Society, with a recent short book. I'm also working on Odysseos' Island, a second novel set in Greece, after my Dionysos' Island. It will conclude on Ithaka, which has a nice poetic resonance. But fear at the current rate I'll be finished before it is! A continuing need to write gets me to my desk. I do hope volume 2 of A Spell is going well, and that you enjoyably continue your important work. Very best wishes to you both.
Lovely message, Keith, thank you.
Glad to hear of course that you're still writing; and yes, D&D is just as rewarding 3rd (yes 3rd!) time through.
All good things to you.
Roselle, I'm very much enjoying your story, your 'swerve' to the West and then your digging in - in a no-dig way, of course! - to Brittany. I look forward to more episodes.
Keith, how lovely to hear from you! I'd love to know how you are and what you're writing; and what happened to Letter from Lancaster? You might be pleased to know I'm about to pick up Diggers and Dreamers (to read for the 3rd time). It's iconic.
Thank you.
Wow, what a journey! Our little homestead is similar in several ways (again), and I am pleasantly surprised to find someone living a parallel, unusual path on another continent! 🤣 We found our lovely little piece of wood-and-field, all overgrown and six-years-abandoned, with a quaint cabin that had "good bones" and a nice little wood stove for heating and cooking (and bathing for a solid few weeks until we got some plumbing finished!) I so enjoy hearing your story and your beautiful outlook on land and life :)
Oh how lovely to hear that, Sydney! Looking forward to seeing photos of yours?
Yes, it's warming, heartening and uplifting to make such a connection. Thank you.