Oh, Frances, you made me laugh. 66 years old and still getting the e-i and i-e mixed up? Have you looked at my spelling letly? Layely? Go whenever you are feeling down about it go review my typing. Not only the stuff that gets through but if you look closely you will see those things that I erased and corrected. And, AND I qualified as an English major in college. Can you imagine? Really, it is not too weird to get the spelling mixed up. You are aware of the issue. That counts for a whole lot.
I had mentioned Italo Calvino. But not just any, the If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler. That Italo Calvino. Yay! for Palm Springs Noir. Something to look forward to. I just need to practice my reading skills. (Apologies to any of you that that also mentioned Italo Calvino.)
There was a person I owed a letter to. Meaning I had received a letter from that person. It was not a bill. It was not a reminder to have my car serviced. It was not a credit card offer. It was a chatty letter. One from a person to a person. There were questions to be answered.
So I went looking for my notes on it. It was so deserving that I made notes about what to include in my response. I kept flipping backward through my sketch journal. And I kept going backward. I was sure it was in my current edition (is that what you call a book in a series of journals? All in the same type of composition I use for these.) As I was nearing that start that would compel me to start over and looking again I found it. Dated 2020-11-21, I date everything so I know when I did things. November 21? Holy cow.
I had put off the response to work on my handwriting. The letter to me was in handwriting. So must be the response. I found a wonderful woman on YouTube that teaches calligraphy, no, casino, no it is called cursive writing. (She teaches calligraphy also) I did part one. Then I delayed doing parts two and beyond. I procrastinated. I have plenty of paper. I have plenty of ink, oh boy do I have plenty of ink. And pens to put them into. So I found the notes on the letter and wrote a response. After more than two months.
Now here is the thing, while I was looking for the original letter to clarify one of my notes I did not find it. It is here somewhere. Just no place that I had looked for it. What I did find was a printed out article “How To Overcome Procrastination Based On Ancient Philosophy” It was printed out for me to read and learn from. Because Procrastination, Yep. I have it here to read. It seems that I found this article on November 22, 2020,
Procrastination can be your friend. Once in a few things. Not in this case. Not by a long case in this one.
— MichaelRpdx :: rkmm 1988