IT’S ALIVE

I’m delighted to announce that my first children’s book, CAT and PIG: A Story of Friendship,  is now available to purchase on Amazon.

It’s been a long time coming.

The real life Herbie and Quinn

The book is based on the true life friendship of Herbie and Quinn who live on a friend’s farm in Washington State.

I’ve written about my friends before, most recently when I wrote When A Friend Sails Into the West about the loss of our mutual friend, Matt. The book is dedicated to Matt.

We met some twenty years ago online through a love of politics and Tolkien.

When my friends shared pictures of the special friendship Herbie and Quinn share, an idea was born.

I struggled with the medium. I could draw them, but I couldn’t. I could paint them, but I couldn’t.

And then I took a little adventure called the 100 Day Project and, a little more than halfway through, I came up with the concept for the animals.

Wednesday of this week, I held the first print copy of the book in my hands.

It may or may not be a true story that I watched the progress of the Amazon delivery driver on the website and stared at her through the blinds as she put the book in the mailbox.

It was pretty exciting to open the package.

Nearly forty-five years ago when I first held in my hands the college yearbook that I edited, I remarked that I felt like crying.

I haven’t cried over this book yet. But I’ve realized that there’s a connection between the art or design aspect and the writing. It’s always been about both.

It only took four decades to figure that out.

I hope you’ll check out CAT and PIG: A Story of Friendship.

And, as always…

#staytuned

That’s it. That’s it for the week.

Go enjoy your weekend.

After you buy the book.  And share this page.

TOMORROW: AN ANNOUNCEMENT

“As a child in the deep South, I’d grown-up fearing the lynch mobs…as an adult, I was starting to wonder if I’ve been afraid of the wrong white people all along. My worst fears had come to pass not in Georgia but in Washington DC where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes but by left wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.”

My Grandfather’s Son
Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Thomas, was born on this day in 1948.*

I’m making an announcement tomorrow.

Something Special This Way Comes.

It’s not the Scottish Play or even a Ray Bradbury novel. Both special in their own rights.

No, it’s not retirement, although it could lead to that.

I told you earlier this week that I’d finished a project. And the final result is ready just a bit sooner than I thought.

Tomorrow, you’ll find out what it is.

As I told you on social media throughout the course of the 100 Day Project…#staytuned.

And, for now, that’s all I have to say about that.

Check back tomorrow.

*NOTE: I realize with a particular pending decision by the Supremes, that the use of a quote on his birthday might imply an announcement of a different sort. That one is coming, but it is not mine to make


 

BORN ON THIS DAY

1894 – Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
1927 – Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 1987)
1929 – June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (d. 2003)
1940 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
1946 – Ted Shackelford, American actor
1948 – Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
1957 – Frances McDormand, American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting
1964 – Joss Whedon, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1974 – Joel Edgerton, Australian actor

THINGS YOU SHOULD READ

Working for the Man
Steven Pressfield
Question: what will you and I do differently when we exit the ranks of the officially employed and set out on our own as artists or entrepreneurs? Read More.

10 Times Socialism Actually Worked
The Babylon Bee
Bernie Sanders famously said that “real” socialism has never been tried. Frankly, we’re shocked he would ever suggest such a thing because there are numerous examples of real socialist utopias that we have to pull from. Read More.

BENEDICTION

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 3:15-17