Posted tagged ‘Pearl’
Old Dog Matches Spring Landscape
March 26, 2011Freezing Rain (March Madness Without Basketball)
March 23, 2011
Pearl doesn't like it.
You Can Find Them Anywhere – Even with Pearl!
March 19, 2011
Naptime
Pearl- (Like the world) Unstable.
March 18, 2011
Pearl Going Unsteady
So much that’s difficult going on in the world, I decided to focus on matters closer to home today. Pearl!
Only she’s also losing stability; she also can be a source of distress.
The fact is that Pearl will be sixteen later this year, and though she capable of brief rituals of puppyesque enthusiasm, her legs are skewed and her vision is terrible. She is capable of running into even major obstacles (park benches) much less minor ones. Her walker has to continually watch for even very shallow stairs or steps.
Still, she’s intrepid, walking slowly, trotting briskly, (or simply allowing herself to be slightly dragged) forward.
You Can Find Them Anywhere. (At the Met?)
January 31, 2011Courbet re-visited. Or…errr… visited. (At the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.)
Elephant cow?
Pearl feels out of place.
For a very little more on Courbet–rather, for a poem of gratitude to Courbet–check out “Going on Somewhere” by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, and Jason Martin, on Amazon now!
Pearl Mounts Ice Floe To Raise Awareness For Its Melt
January 28, 2011
Pearl (Sans Elephant) Gets On The Floe
“Pearl!” I called down to the Hudson. “I know you feel a special sympathy for polar bears–” (I think it’s the white fur/ black nose thing)–”but, seriously, this is going too far.”
“Errruuurrrmmmmmm,” Pearl replied.
Setting Pearl aside for a minute (while she’s still within range), it’s hard for us in the frigid Eastern U.S. to focus on the fact that this has been the second of two freakishly warm winters in the Arctic. Scientists postulate that this is part of the reason for all the “excess” cold both here and in Europe–the circulation of various Polar jet streams has broken from usual vortexes, allowing arctic air to swoop down in exchange for warmer air swooping up. Some scientists are concerned that this two-year change may signal long-term damage to a so-called arctic “fence” –see an article about it here.
In the meantime—”Pearrrrrrllll!”
You Can Find Them Anywhere (Pt. 3) (On Pearl)
January 27, 2011
You can find them anywhere.
This was actually taken in between snow storms yesterday, before the big one last night.
Apologies. Breakthrough? Push through.
January 24, 2011
Pearl Does Not Believe in Contests
My apologies for a somewhat desultory blog of late!
I have been working on entering a novel contest. It is one of those sort-of-hopeless endeavors that one tells one’s self is nonetheless worth doing.
In this case, it’s the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest (called ABNA Contest.) I have been busy (among other things) revising an old novel that was written during another sort of contest–Nanowrimo, or National Novel Writing Month. This was not the novel I wrote this past November (which needs more than revision), but an older one, which I have been working on sporadically for some time.
The odd thing here is that over the last year or so I spent a great deal of time cutting the novel to streamline it. I had gotten it down from 52,000 words to less than 42,000.
Then I realized that ABNA contest rules require a novel of over 50,000 words.
When you cut things, you really can’t just add them back in. It’s a bit like hair. You can grow new, but you can’t somehow just paste the old back on. Even in the age of computers. It doesn’t somehow work that way. You made the cuts because you thought the stuff should be cut.
So now… so now….I had to figure out what was missing.
Yes, I could just have kept the novel short and not entered the contest, but things were, in fact, missing from the novel.
At any rate, I have more or less finished it now, at least gotten the book to the necessary word count.
I’m not sure I can yet call it polished, but the entry got in on time.
Silly! (Probably.) Unlikely to be a commercially successful endeavor. (Who knows?) But doing this type of thing offers a deadline, a standard, a goal. It gets one moving, forces one to push through obstacles, burn the midnight oil. Right now, for example, it is past 1:30 AM on a work night.
What?!!!!
(P.S. – if you are interested in writing, check out “Going on Somewhere” by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco and Jason Martin on Amazon!)
Snow (Pearl)
December 27, 2010
Brrr.....
(More iPhone art. Brrrr….ushes App.)
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