Your Californias

Thoughts on wildfires of land and hearts.

Friends,

If your world caught fire,

and you had but a blink to choose,

for whom would your reach?

What would you save?

Who would you be when the ashes cooled?

Maybe it already has, one way or another.

How did you answer?

Can you tell me yet?

Sometimes the sky helps one sort all that,

shows the Artist’s knowing of your fire.

The meaning in it.

“I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.” —Isaiah 48:10

Then, after the forge . . .

“Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.” —Isaiah 60:20

******

For you, beloveds,

whatever your Californias.

******

📙 📙 📙 Bookish Stuff:

For one more day you can get Leaning on Air ‘ s ebook for only $2.99 HERE . . . or at any major ebook retailer. (Check out reviews on GoodReads!)

Meanwhile, my research this week for novel #4 was delicious.

I chased down references to stories jotted on my grandfather’s navigational charts. Since he died, I’ve stored a dozen or so of the San Juan and Gulf Islands we boated together.

Too, I traced and remembered the Inside Passage to Alaska I sailed a couple of times with him and my grandmother. Plowed through ships’ logs in my grandmother’s hand. Waded in data on Fresnel lenses and fog bells in the 1890s.

By yesterday, my characters had histories and faces, emotions and needs I’m beginning to understand. I’ve also written a three-page synopsis of their story arcs.

Two women, two timelines, three generations.

Islands and earthquakes, wildlife and leprosy and love.

Before long, they’ll start talking.

My working title, for now? The Boat to Snow.

Speaking of wildlife, I heard that one bird can’t make a pun.

But toucan.

Love,

Cheryl

Manuscript Word Count: Still 0

P.S. If you subscribe, be sure to check your spam box if my Saturday Letters aren’t reaching you. SARAH GRAHAM and KELLY ERWIN . . . I have giveaway books for you! Maybe my filter swallowed your replies? Please write me again with your mailing addresses and I’ll send the books right off to you!