Okay. Now I have time. There are still meetings, and commitments, but not many. I've had the carpets in my condo cleaned, which resulted in cleaning (and some discarding) a lot of other things too. A couple of my group duties have been completed and passed on to others. I have only one church responsibility, and that comes only two or three times a quarter. For the organization that I had been prepped to take over as president, it appears that since the Executive Director has announced that she will resign at the end of the year, the current president wants to stay on--and that's okay with me. I'm completing details in the accounting software to finish my work with Michelle in her business.
NOTE: Change of plans for the current Voices For Children CASA board president means that I will become president in October. While that will be in the middle of the search for a new ED, we are both on the committee, the only new officer will be the vice president, and I believe the board transition will be smooth. Hopefully the ED transition will be too. Also my work with Michelle ended in July. She has chosen to distance as she works on her relationship with her husband. Hard, painful though it is, I am adjusting more each day. Though I have crawled into that hole, I'm grateful that I don't hang out there.
My endings are all appropriate though it's a lot at one time. My ushering responsibilities at the summer Colorado Music Festival have made this month's evenings busy. Hiking continues weekly. Writing has moved to the front burner; however, I have heard nothing from the small press editor. I heard through my friend who works at the corporate office here that the editor had returned and had or was going to read my material this week--but nothing to me from her. I still have prayers out there--that the story will stay with her over the next few days, and she'll feel compelled to publish it. I've edited the adult voice pieces and am through working on the memoir. If I hear nothing, I might--just might send out a flurry of queries to agents. Again, I might just let it go. I have decided absolutely not to self-publish it. Other stories perhaps, the spiritual journey/hiking proposal I'm working on or something else--not the memoir.
UPDATE: I didn't hear from the Seal editor. I did send out one more query--and might do two or three this afternoon--without any expectations.
I have an early spring date to give a Quiet Day program for my friend's church in Florida, combining it with a visit. That's one way forward. I'll check out that as a possibility--some version--with another priest friend tomorrow. I still feel a call to get in front of a more diverse audience, but there's never a way to know who is in the audience anywhere.
It's strange, thinking that I'm to do one thing for certain, leaving time and feeling in a vacuum.
August 17th --
I'm less in a vacuum each day, more settled with working on the spiritual journey hiking book, which means more since I can't hike right now--and gearing up to do the website. Suggestions for good titles for the website anyone??? Blogs posted there will be more like earlier spiritual posts.
