{"id":298,"date":"2019-02-02T20:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2019-02-03T04:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T04:15:30","slug":"candlemas-fiat-lux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/02\/candlemas-fiat-lux\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlemas: fiat lux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, I’m a bit pleasantly tipsy, and I’ll tell you why. I spent the day writing, and in celebration of the fact that I have but two sequences left of this story, and am recovering nicely from my illness, I walked down to the Blue Koi and sat myself down at the bar to eat pot stickers and read The Princess Bride<\/em> (because after all, I’m leading the discussion at book club next week and I ought at least to have reread the book).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also asked the bartender to make me a gin martini, and he made a doozy. It was good. It was big. It was big and good, and I drank every drop plus a large cup of jasmine tea for afters. And then I walked home in the damp and no-longer-so-fucking-frigid night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have I mentioned how I love my neighborhood? A block along in my journey home I passed two young men on the sidewalk in black hoodies. They had warm skin and facial hair and one had an affectionate arm thrown over the other’s shoulder. As I approached he smiled at me and said Hi<\/em> silently, and held up his hand. I slapped it as I passed. And I walked on happily into the night and that is what my neighborhood is like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, and now, I must go down and get my laundry out of the dryer in the basement if I want a clothed bed to sleep in, and I have written all but two sequences of this story, and drunk a very large and delicious gin martini and eaten a serving of pork dumplings, and tomorrow is another day, and this one was pretty damn good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I’m a bit pleasantly tipsy, and I’ll tell you why. I spent the day writing, and in celebration of the fact that I have but two sequences left of this story, and am recovering nicely from my illness, I walked down to the Blue Koi and sat myself down at the bar to eat<\/p>\n

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