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sat eve

Have not used tumblr in a long long time. Using medium and substack. This makes me sad for livejournal which was very good for a while, I still have friend from lj, who are on fbook now.

I feel like I have not done enough writing today. Listening to miles davis, recovering from the losses: mom in nov, gf in dec, my idea, but still. and uncle john yesterday. a lot of loss. and I am ok, sad, feeling all the feelings. glad I do not have a complicated and non supportive gf dragging me down, with work and life, parenting, being enough.

So many people are writing memoirs. Makes me think mine should be novels, but my new editor might help with that. It's not easy in some ways flipping an existing book from memoir to novel. Wanting it to stand out more. Not that many literary novels get written and there are so many memoirs.

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back in California

And back to work, selling tech. I spent a week with my daughter in Oahu, on the North Shore, swimming, snorkeling, boating, kayaking, relaxing. Looking at trees. Eating shrimp. We had fun and it's fun to fly and feel safe, now, after all the difficulty of the past year. Then on Saturday we went to a wedding and that was fun, dancing with my cousins and their crazy friends.

Working on the new book, the memoir, which is so close to being done but ok to send to agents, which I have done. I just need to do more of that. To publish it as a novel is also possible but it reads more like a memoir I think, just hard to be vulnerable. But any writing or art we do is vulnerable, usually.

I am happy to be back, do some biking, climbing, sleeping. Going on nice walks with my girlfriend. I like to be ok with the present and not thinking about my next trip. Just be here for now...

#memoir #memoir writing #art #oahu #hawaii

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Finish things. Just whatever it takes to finish. Finish; and then get on with the next one. You will learn more from a glorious failure, then you ever will from something that you’ve never finished.

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back to modern times bookstore in the mission, back to mumia. #nofilterever #mumia read cornel west intro essay...other essays by mumia. powerful always.

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