The Reticent Blogger.....on books & working at the Kennedy Center

     Here I go again..... such an itchy scratchy feeling, writing a blog, although not as much as when I journal and feel somewhat ridiculous because it always seems like I should be writing to someone.  A real someone, who answers back.  Other than myself.  Because, honestly, if I pose a dilemma or question to myself?
     I already know the answer.  
     I never wonder what I'll say in response like I would a letter from an actual person. Which is why blogs are definitely a step up from journalling since there is the potential that it might actually elicit a response from someone.
      So.....I've written a book.  And finished it.  Called Kella of Opulent Faith.
     I don't know why I've been clutching this secret to my chest like a penny pinching housewife in the grocery store with her coupons (me!  Except for the housewife part.  And the fact that me, armed with coupons, = spending more than ever "because its on sale").
     It's just such an exhilarating feeling that I needed to swill it around the gladness region of my spirit for a while before releasing it since, over the past fifteen plus years, one manuscript after another has been discarded because.... well, never mind.  I was about to go way far off-topic, and into my psyche, and wear you out, totally.
     Anyway I wanna get to the book - and I will - but I think, as a salute to the "parts coming together for the good of the whole" I spoke about in the "Why Jazz?"blog, that I should tell you the back story of how the book came to be from the beginning....
     Once upon a time, God looked down from heaven and noticed a crochet designer scrambling around for opportunities, praying and clinging to Him like a leech, and He sighed and sent husband-and-wife angels in human form to sit next to me at a Christmas party and proclaim, "She should work at the Kennedy Center!", and proceed to give me all the info I needed to get in there.
     So ten months later, (long months, filled with much misfortune including car needing brakes which forced me to walk the trails to work, etc. where I glimpsed a cougar

less than fifty yards away but didn't believe my eyes - because it was so far removed from my perception of reality - that I actually strolled right on past where I saw it enter the woods.  Then two days later, people in Alexandria, Virginia were on the news saying they'd seen a cougar.  An experience (among others during this period) that I drew upon for the cheetah scene in Kella of Opulent Faith - but more on that later....), I found myself working in the Costume/Wardrobe department for six weeks on the international premiere of Little Dancer at the Kennedy Center....

     .....I'm grimacing and flinching at the time - need to run catch up with it - forgive me.  Will get back to this next time.
Until then,
xoxo
Vanessa
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