Well, here we are the day after the end of the Write 31 Days challenge and I have to say I'm wiped out. Writing about a certain topic for a continual 31 days can be exhausting (not that I did it, read more below) but thinking that every day I had to try and coerce my uncooperative thoughts into a string of semi-coherent words was honestly pretty taxing. There is lots to share from my grey-matter container and to limit it to a certain topic day after day was certainly a struggle. Would I do it again? Maybe. Would I do the insanity that is the "write a novel in 30 days" challenge? Yeah, there's a pretty good chance I'd give it a shot.
Allow me to get serious for a minute: you may have noticed I bailed out of the last few days of the challenge. Without going into too much detail, our youngest child ended up in the ICU over the last weekend and to say we dropped everything like a hot rock is, well...entirely accurate. There is nothing that will rock your world like seeing a part of you in a position of extreme uncertainty when it comes to predicting their survival from hour to hour. It's the kind of thing I wouldn't wish on anyone. Ever. EVER.
For those of you who were in the loop in some way, we thank you with all our hearts for your prayers and support. She is physically doing well but will be dealing with the aftermath for quite some time.As you can understand dealing with this is job #1 for us, so a lot of stuff got dropped where it was and we will endeavor to pick them back up when real life allows. It is my full intention that the next post here will be about the exploration of the world of stringed instrument construction, repair, and restoration. Please be patient for that day to come. I appreciate your understanding and hope to "talk" to you soon.
V/r,
James
