{"id":1126,"date":"2021-02-21T18:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T00:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2021-02-21T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T00:09:18","slug":"the-winter-kaleidoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/the-winter-kaleidoscope\/","title":{"rendered":"The winter kaleidoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One day soon I will make a Lenten-themed post, but today is not that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I braved the deep freeze last week to get my annual physical and purchase a new phone, as my old one&#8217;s memory was stuffed too full to function after five years. 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class=\"wp-image-1120\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I can get a text from someone that downloads itself and doesn&#8217;t take ten minutes to do so, so there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the TLT front: I finished the aforementioned chapter and have started on another. This one has been a bit of a slog, to be honest. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s my mood or the deep freeze or the laborious transition to more promising dialogue, but there it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What do you call a meet-cute when it&#39;s more like a meet-~awkward~? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/amwriting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#amwriting<\/a><\/p>&mdash; L. Inman (@linman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/linman\/status\/1363216181172314114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stitching the plots of my two arenas together is becoming less frustrating as I start to actually do it. I just have to remember to put in all the little touches I thought of to set this or that up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since for the most part I&#8217;m away up in my little nest, working and cooking and taking random photographs and texting my sibling in Austin to make sure they&#8217;re okay, I feel somewhat like my view is telescoped in repeated refracted colors, like a kaleidoscope. It may or may not be good for creating art, but to be honest? I don&#8217;t want to leave it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps when spring gets here, I&#8217;ll feel differently. But for now, it&#8217;s just me and the cat and the open Word document. And that&#8217;s just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day soon I will make a Lenten-themed post, but today is not that day. I braved the deep freeze last week to get my annual physical and purchase a new phone, as my old one&#8217;s memory was stuffed too full to function after five years. 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