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Evening’s Kingdom: the Conversations:
wide-ranging conversations with artists and thinkers on their work, their life; their adventures, processes and routines.

Episode 19. Evening’s Kingdom, the Conversations: Baker Manning from Below Deck, the Reality TV Show. Sources of Adventure-Income, World Travel, and Unlocking Joy.

10/17/2022

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“Working on a yacht is one of the best ways to travel the world, earn cash, and live on a floating palace on the water (for free!)” - Baker Manning
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​Hello travelers,

Today’s conversation is with my very dear & lovely friend, Baker Manning from Below Deck, the Bravo reality TV show. 
Baker shares how mourning her beloved father led her into a life of world travel… and thrill-seeking became soul-seeking. We discuss plant medicine, music as medicine, and how she unlocked her greatest superpower: joy.
The queen of ‘adventure -income,’ Baker teaches adult hip-hop choreography in Charleston Diva Dance parties, and is the author of the Yacht Job Handbook, your complete guide on how to break into the yachting industry.*
Her handbook is perfect for anyone in transition. Especially any hard-working thrillseekers you may know who are interested to stockpile some cash for a rainy day… maybe even pay off some debt! (As a crew-member, all your living expenses are paid.) 
I can also testify - it makes for equally great armchair travel, too :) 
Once upon a time, I daydreamed about working as a masseuse on a yacht. I love my life, but I wonder - in some other life, maybe she and I are crewmates in some sunny isle :) 
Are you there with us? Who knows? 
Take a daydream as you listen in below… 
Please share and enjoy!

Shownotes:
Below Deck

4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris

A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle

Baker’s IG
Baker’s FB
BakerManning.com
Baker’s amazing Vizor Ganizor tutorial video - must watch :) 
Yacht Job Handbook Digital Guide

Diva Dance - take a hip hop class with Baker in Charleston & beyond

Jet Training - Flex Jet
Folly beach - the edge of America
Sullivans Island
Electric Hand Warmers
The Food Lion
“Steezy” - a definition. (Because I had to look this up for myself…) 
Baker Manning Packing List
Angel Rox - cozy, flowy, plant-based knits for travel - I like the fingerless gloves :)
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Episode 17. Evening’s Kingdom, the Conversations: Tales from a Traveling Ayurvedic-Adventure Chef, Justin Booher

8/31/2022

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Hello travelers, 

For today’s episode, I’m elated to share my conversation with the extraordinarily talented Justin Booher! Please enjoy as Justin shares his adventures cheffing for retreats around the world. We discuss energy work, ways to clear out space to let more wonder and alignment into your life; structuring a dinner party to delight all the senses, Justin's delicious wellness remedies and more.
Justin is currently on LotusWei’s Flowerlounge tour. If you’d like to experience his art and magic firsthand, do book your ticket now, as they are bound to sell out - and if you’re local to Charleston, join me for bliss when they visit Charleston, SC on September 8th, 2022! 

Thank you so much for listening. Please share and enjoy :)

Shownotes:
Chef Justin Booher. Want to connect with Justin and follow his work? Reach out via Instagram and his website. One of my favorite people and even more wonderful than this interview may suggest, Justin’s energy will deeply elevate your event.  

Hana Atafi. Therapeutic Retreat Leader 

SAN Center Phoenix. Wellness Vault located in Phoenix, Arizona

Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism.

Tonglen Smoke Offering.

Lotuswei.com.

SAN Center team: 
Katie Hess - LotusWei; 
Taylor Rico - Creative Director of Marketing; 
Lisa Reinhardt - Chocolate magic; 
Alan Chang - Acupuncture and TCM;  
Alison Van Wyck - Wisdom Nectar Tea

Eli Buren. Yogic embodiment, awareness, sexual yoga, martial arts, somatic studies & outdoor leadership. 

Alexandra Roxo . Author & transformational coach specializing in the intersection of spirituality and sensuality, emotional and creative expression, and embodiment for women; check out her book  F*ck Like a Goddess: Heal Yourself, Reclaim Your Voice, Stand in Your Power.

Lazulu, Utah. “Hard to Find, Harder to Forget.” 

Ecstatic Dance, Charleston. 

Broccoli Boy.        
                    
TCM / Traditional Chinese Medicine.
 
The Law of Signatures/ The Doctrine of Signatures.

Lotus Wei Flower Lounge Tour.

Om Mani Padme Hung. Tibetan Buddhist mantra


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Evening’s Kingdom: A miscellanea! Now Seeking… first readers for my new epic fantasy series; how to start journaling; journaling prompts for stress, anxiety, marriage and more.

8/2/2022

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Hello, travelers!

Today’s episode is a bit different. So, I’m an asshole… I have that whole episode about Fern that I still need to record for you. But in the meantime I’ve recorded two more interviews, one with Justin Booher, an Ayurvedic Chef on living, loving and learnin’ from the leaves - and another with Baker Manning, she of Below Deck fame, talking all about her beautifully perigrigrenations around the world, the mind, and more….

But today I felt like sharing something else. 

You might remember that a few shows back I mentioned I was recording in our skoolie, in our dear friend Abby’s driveway. It’s so funny where ideas for books come from - we were in Columbia, South Carolina, and on our way to her house, I saw this sign for a cafe.

It was the craziest name for a cafe I’d ever seen. I couldn’t get it out of my head. And that night I had a dream… for a brand new epic fantasy series :) 

For now, I’ll just say it’s like the X Files with witches and time travel… centering around this cafe. I’m seeking early readers for this new story now, and will be sending out a call via my email list. So if you would like to number yourself among them, please sign up to my email list here.

Boop; I will send you your free copy of Book One of Evening’s Kingdom, and as soon as this first installment of my new dark epic fantasy series for adults is ready in the next couple weeks, if you permit me, I’ll pass that along to you for your thoughts as well. I’d love to put early reader’s input deeply into the story, maybe include a few Easter eggs, fun things like that, so if you’re a fantasy fan who likes the X Files, Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, random monsters of the week and time travel, do count yourself in! 

Now this brings me today’s show, which is about a long-running love of mine. Journaling. 

Journaling changed my life. It’s free therapy! It helps us to process things, to remember or realize who we want to be - how we want to be - and the practice can be deeply enjoyable, too.

I’ve been sharing journaling prompts with my email subscribers, just the different things I’m working with myself, and the response to these has been so lovely. 

So I wanted to talk about my process a little bit here in case it can help someone:

How to start journaling, 
How journaling helps with stress, 
How some people start journaling for anxiety, 
And also, to share some journaling prompts. 
I also share 3 more involved frameworks you might consider; one which is suitable for anyone, and two for people who perhaps are looking to journey more deeply, and work through difficulties.


How to start journaling.

Any time you are starting a habit, try to do it the very first thing in the morning for 30 days. You don’t always have to do it first thing, but these first thirty days let you create a deep groove for your new habit, enough for you to really explore it and see if you like the practice to begin with.

So the night before, put out your pen and paper. Maybe you get out your caffeine utilities and put them with your pen and paper also. You might even put them all together on a little tray, so that in the morning it’s easy to mobilize. That night, set your alarm a little early, maybe 20 minutes earlier than you’d normally get up. 

In the morning, you make yourself your coffee, and then take your pen & paper outside. (It’s good to expose your organism to daylight first thing in the morning, and this will help set your circadian rhythm so it’s easier to wake up and do this tomorrow.)

Then just mess around for as long as it takes you to drink your tasty beverage. 

Here’s some ideas for journaling prompts: 

Write five things you’re grateful for, 
Write down your biggest fear, and the ten things you would do if it came true.
Write down some of the experiences you’d like to enjoy today, this week, maybe even this season. For example, write down your five favorite summertime sounds, and hold time to listen to those sounds, even just for a moment.

There’s not any rules, and no one ever has to see what you write. It’s probably better if they don’t - this is not a performance. This is a gift to yourself. And thereby to the world - after all, how can we create a more loving and peaceful world, if we don’t love ourselves first?

Or as my friend, the artist Hana Shoup, likes to say, “Don’t do the work. Be the work.”

This brings me to another point. Some people like the idea of journaling but then they feel like sometimes they get onto a dark path with it, and don’t know how to get back out. So they feel nervous about even starting. 

A framework can help with this, especially if you can follow it for 30 days.  

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
- Carl Jung 


Deepening the Practice

3 Journaling Frameworks. 

1. Byron Katie’s ‘The Work’ 
This really helps you to process anything. This is great for anyone, anytime, in any state of mind. It’s incredibly profound and healing. The Work is just five questions. Visit TheWork.com, where Byron Katie has the instructions available for free - each one of which is a deep meditation. Her process will change the way that you think, in the most wonderful way.

You can also watch her on Youtube, listen to her podcast and/or my favorite, you can read her wonderful book, Loving What Is.

I talk about how The Work helped me in more detail here. Just click and scroll down, where I share my story, along with a yellow brick road of journaling prompts that helped me to release an emotional pain body I didn’t even realize I had wafting around me. 

(PS a note for poetry lovers. Byron Katie is married to Stephen Mitchell!! Yes - that Stephen Mitchell :) Their marriage seems beautifully expansive, and I admire his work the more for it. If you’re geeking out like I did when I first learned this, you might also enjoy this article about them from the LA Times ? )

I just can’t say it enough. Journaling changed my life. Journaling helps. So much.

2. Melodie Beattie’s Gratitude Practice 

This framework is all about releasing the deep, deep subconscious resistance we all have to making our greatest dreams come true. It’s often easy to see how the people around us often act as their own worst enemy, but this is true for all of us. Most of us (often very) actively sabotage ourselves.

Like Byron Katie, Melodie Beattie has a free journaling practice that she wants to disseminate everywhere; she says on her website to please actively talk about and share this practice. 

She’s also written about it thoroughly in her wonderful book, Make Miracles Happen in 40 days. This is a gratitude practice with a deep spin you may never have heard of.

Here’s what you do. For 40 days, you wake up and write down ten things you are grateful for - including the bad and difficult things. 

For example, you might say, I’m grateful I feel so sad today about the mess that is my life.
I’m grateful I’m so far from where I want to be.
I’m grateful that I can see where I want to be, even though it feels far away, I’m grateful that the journey there is one that I want to take.
I’m grateful I’m on this journey.
I’m grateful for this black, black coffee and that today is a new day.
I’m so grateful today is a new day, and that I can be whoever I want to be. 
I’m grateful to be who I am, even though I am not perfect.
I’m not perfect, and i don’t want to be perfect, and I’m really grateful for that! 


By acknowledging the difficult things - not fighting them, or pretending that they don’t exist - you dissolve your resistance to them. And then the energy can move.
And it does! 

Some days you might find yourself writing a list of 20 things; other days it might be hard to even do five, but make yourself do this. Commit to this. And see what happens.

A beautiful quote that comes to mind here. Once upon a time, the Buddha said: 
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”

Researching this for you, I came across something beautiful from my journal that I’d written around this time. All this work was starting to open up space again. I was staying present, I was listening deeply, and my husband and I were healing: 

“Tonight we made tacos and watched Walk With Me, a movie about the Buddhist monk Thich Nhant Hanh and his monastery. We fell asleep snuggled and he held my hands with both of his.

There was this beautiful part in the movie where this young girl asked him how she could not be so sad after a loss, and Thich Nhat Hanh said she could look at a cloud… 
and when it was gone… she could realize that it was not really gone.
It was the rain. 
It was her tea.
Our marriage isn’t gone. It is just the rain, it’s our tea. It’s all around us. It’s love. 
And love is brave.” 



3. Plant Medicine + Gratitude Practice
This third framework is something I did at my darkest point. 
 A few years ago, I was in about as dark a state as it’s possible for an INFJ / INFP person to be. 

Which is pretty bad, because we are psychos ? (Anyone reading this who ever dated me is probably laughing. But can agree, yes? xx)

Anyway, this practice brought me incredible peace, and growth. And also, incidentally, it seemed to help a lot of people around me. 

So there I was, on the lowest rung on my own personal ladder to hell. It felt like everything was crashing down because … it was. I’d failed at everything I’d put heart and soul into and… I didn’t know what to do. My writing was a failure, my career was a failure, I’d had these miscarriages and my husband, my favorite person in all the world, we were in a bad place. We loved each other desperately but we were also, let’s say, mutually furious with one another. It was a mess. 

This is what helped...

(A quick and serious caveat before we begin. I am not a doctor, of any kind. I am just a curious organism, this does not constitute medical advice. Some of what I’m about to mention is not legal everywhere - yet - so all of what follows is just for entertainment purposes. If it is something you are interested to learn more about, there is so much incredibly knowledgeable support out there, from licensed health practitioners and so on. Tons of books and documentaries, too - Fantastic Fungi, How to Change Your Mind - if you’re feeling a ping on this. Do your research. I’ve put a ton of links below in the shownotes, too, many enjoyable rabbit holes. Explore! Enjoy!)

I did my research, and this was the path I chose: 

For four weeks, I combined the Paul Stamets stack with 20 minutes of meditation, and then the Melodie Beattie gratitude journaling practice. 

I’ll break that down:

Four days a week, every morning before work, I got up and did the Paul Stamets protocol, usually outside, meditated for twenty minutes, and then I journaled. 

The other three days a week, I took a tolerance break and just meditated and journaled in the morning. 

The Paul Stamets stack has been written about extensively. Theoretically, it helps to bring about neurogenesis in the brain, enhances cognition, possibly prevents dementia and, especially in combination with meditation and journaling, it is incredibly powerful for rerouting habits of mind, certain grooves of mind, especially anxiety and depression. The dosage is very small. Although you will likely feel more open-hearted and open-minded, you should absolutely be able to perform all your usual tasks, but with a deeper presence. This will change your life.
Do note that the tolerance break is important; some people format theirs differently. Do your research!  


The first day journaling out the gratitude practice was really sad. I don’t even know how many horrible feelings and facts I had to write down that I was grateful to be feeling. But by the end of however many pages, I was grateful for birdsong, the sun on my face, and just to be alive. 

I’ve continued journaling, on and off ever since. In general, I find that I live more lightly in the world, with gratitude and a joyful sense of the sacred in all things. 

No small part of that is for the connection I love with you, my dear travelers, on this strange and beautiful quest of this, our incarnation! I like to think of us all as little mycelial blooms of the divine... and we are never alone :) 

Thank you so much for reading. 

Please join us for more free weekly journaling prompts, and do let me know if you’d enjoy being an early reader for my new epic fantasy audiobook. Just click here to start, and I’ll send you a lovely mailing.

And in our next episode, I promise, I promise, I will take you deep into Fern’s world, in Evening’s Kingdom. 

Please stay tuned. The rest of the story is… just down the road :) 
 
With love & stories, 
 
Paula


Shownotes:

https://www.chefjustinbooher.com
https://www.bakermanning.com
https://www.bravotv.com/below-deck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files
The artist Hana Shoup - https://www.hanashoup.com
Byron Katie: TheWork.com & also Loving What Is
Byron Katie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BcghG-WwCU
Byron Katie’s Podcast: https://thework.com/at-home-with-byron-katie-podcast/
Stephen Mitchell: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-12-ca-stephen-mitchell12-story.html
Melodie Beattie’s  Gratitude Practice - https://melodybeattie.com/books/make-miracles-forty-days-turning-want/
 It Takes One to Tango, by Winifred M. Reilly. 
Walk With Me: https://walkwithmefilm.com
Thich Nhat Hanh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nhất_Hạnh
Fantastic Fungi - https://www.netflix.com/title/81183477
How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan -TV Series: https://www.netflix.com/title/80229847
How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan -Book: https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225
Paul Stamets Stack: https://psychedelicspotlight.com/how-to-microdose-psilocybin-paul-stamets-the-stamets-stack/
Lucky last: R/Ayahuasca. Magic is real :) 

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Evening’s Kingdom: The Conversations. The Beautiful Dissolution - An Interview with Justen Ahren, Poet Laureate of Martha’s Vineyard.

4/21/2022

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Evenings Kingdom: the Conversations. Wide-ranging conversations with artists and thinkers on their work, their life; their adventures, processes and routines. Kind of an ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’ meets ‘The Tim Ferriss Show,’ these Conversations will, no doubt, wend their ways into my writing. In stories from me in years to come, you may well recognize characters and ideas first discussed here. ​

Hello lovelies! I’m thrilled to present you with my conversation with Justen Ahren, the 2017-2019 poet laureate of Martha’s Vineyard.

Justen is a dear friend, poet, photographer, musician and teacher. He served as poet laureate of Martha’s Vineyard from 2017 to 2019, and is the founder of Devotion to Writing, helping people around the world cultivate their daily writing practice and awaken creative abundance.  

Justen has published two poetry collections, A Strange Catechism and A Machine for Remembering. His work has been exhibited at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, set to music by Grammy award-winning composers, commissioned by national dance theater groups and adapted and performed on stage. You can find him on Justenahren.com, and on Instagram and all socials as @justenahren.  

We take a moment to get going and have some audio misadventures, my fault - but our conversation catches fire, so please do stay with us! 

If you are an artist also, there is a great deal for you here, as we discuss: 

- The secret, parallel fantasy life that helped Justen survive a very tough childhood -

- Art as a coping mechanism, a lover, and, ultimately, a spiritual practice -

- Beauty witnessing us, just as we witness it -

-​ The magic of Intention, and how we may manifest our longings, for, as the ghost of the ancient shaman called Yaeel tells Ouma in EK: “That which you seek is also seeking you.”

- How stories choose us...

- And I reveal the wild, midnight ceremony which unexpectedly brought Ouma, and
the entirety of Evening's Kingdom, into me.


Thank you for listening. Please enjoy! 


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New Episode Up! Evenings Kingdom: The Conversations - an Interview with Pat Gault, founder of Alice Quest : A Veteran’s Healing Journey with Ayahuasca, via the Heroic Hearts Project

3/19/2022

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Evenings Kingdom: the Conversations. Wide-ranging conversations with artists and thinkers on their work, their life; their adventures, processes and routines. Kind of an ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’ meets ‘The Tim Ferriss Show,’ these Conversations will, no doubt, wend their ways into my writing. In stories from me in years to come, you may well recognize characters and ideas first discussed here. ​

Today’s episode features my dear friend Pat Gault. He is an artist and waymaker, and a military veteran. 

We consider the many different kinds of possible cognizance - that of trees, rivers, mountains, even rocks; how this informs the worldviews of many traditional cultures like the Alaskan Dena’ina, who recognize these multiple dimensions of consciousness, all of which thoughts and the wind could traverse… 

Pat became a Pararescueman (a PJ) at 18. He is also a writer, exploring alternative treatment methods for PTSD and depression, such as meditation and psychedelics. But it is his growing relationship with the Alaskan backcountry which has truly transformed his life. Accordingly, he founded the Alaska Institute of Curiosity and Exploration or ALICE to help redefine our understanding of nature as the original entheogen.  You can visit him at AliceQuest.com to learn more about the Alaskan quests he guides -  and I do recommend it to your attention :)

Recently Pat was connected with the Heroic Hearts Project, which offers veterans psychedelic treatment options to heal their PTSD. The Heroic Heart’s program guides veterans to help them get the most out of their time on retreats, while also setting them up for success when they return home. 

This is Pat’s story.
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Thank you for listening ~ please enjoy!

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Evening’s Kingdom Update

3/19/2022

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Ah, hello, my dear lovelies, my dear strangelings, 

Far, far too many moons have come and gone since I wrote last, but rest assured, I’ve held you in mind…

Wherein (my mind) there is always a voice - amongst many others - a character I’ve written as Comfort A. Sloyd, Marguerite Hastie, etc - I can hear her now, rasping throatily: “never explain, never apologize, never say goodbye…”

Yet it’s so delicious to know the workings of other lives, and so for you I shall part the veil:

My day job (augh!) is seasonally very heavy, and the current cycle is proving to be an unusually long & wild tide. Since we spoke last, I’ve been, well - drowning. Like so many of us in this complex new era. But I’m fighting up out of it now, high waters or no, clutching a new beast in my teeth for you, as you (so kindly) continue to wait for Season 2.

As some of you know, each episode of Evenings Kingdom takes me around 20 hours to record and edit. With writing/editing time to compose the material, the ingredients for each hour of the show run to more like 50 - 60 hours. I love every second of this, but they are hard-won. 

So I have an idea. While I write additional seasons of the story (hopefully for years to come) - I’m also now recording ‘Evening’s Kingdom: the Conversations’: wide-ranging conversations with artists and thinkers on their work, their life; their adventures, processes and routines. Kind of an ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’ meets ‘The Tim Ferriss Show.’ 

I have a few gorgeous minds on tap, and am beyond elated to share their worlds with you. 

The audio and (eventually) transcripts for each will be available on EveningsKingdom.com here, on the Journal/Interviews page. Once I’ve recorded and released all of Season 2/Book 2 of Evening’s Kingdom via Apple Music, Spotify etc, I’ll release a solid season of EveningsKingdom: the Conversations via these platforms as well, putting them out in scheduled batches while I work up Season 3/Book 3. In the meantime, please do enjoy the Conversations in advance via EveningsKingdom.com! 

These Conversations will, no doubt, wend their ways into my stories. In years that come, you may well recognize characters and ideas first discussed here. For example, in my first episode, a conversation with Pat Gault, we consider the many different kinds of possible cognizance - that of trees, rivers, mountains, even rocks; the worldviews of traditional cultures like the Alaskan Dena’ina, who recognize many dimensions of consciousness, all of which thoughts and the wind could traverse… 

I hope it will be a delicious window into process - for myself included. 

For I am fascinated by worlds. This is what drives me - swimming down into other worlds of mind … the ways we each script and sculpt our own realities … weaving our secret selves out into this waking dream which is our shared world. 

Of each guest, I’ll ask: transport me. What is it like… to be you? Tell me a story. What are the skills, routines and philosophies that have most helped you towards your dreams? How do you think about and approach a project when it first invites you; how does that change throughout your process … Regrets, dreams and ambitions …  

I love listening to and learning from artists, and to all those with unusual bends of mind. And I suspect, my dear listeners, you do, too. 

So. I hope what follows will impact and enchant you, as much as, perchance, it will the endeavor which is Evening’s Kingdom …

Ah yes, and that update - ! Evenings Kingdom…

Book 2 is long-completed. I just need to start recording/editing her in increments to create Season 2 for you. The lovely Baker Manning suggests I begin with a recap - wise-! - and so I will. I’ve saved up and just recently purchased some proper equipment (Audio-Technica ATR2100x, an audio interface, a cheap boom arm for the mike, etc) and am thrilled to (learn how to use them &) put them to use for you. Tools! All my life, my instrument has been a pen, a laptop; it’s both delicious and overwhelming to dip the page of myself into this saturating new world of audio delights …  

Book 3 … I’m about 300 pages in and am now in the editing phase, although I’m continuing to flesh it out. I’m utilizing the notecard method Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Donna Tart & Vladimir Nabokov have all so vaunted, and so in addition to my manuscript, I have a shoebox crammed with tabbed, handwritten notes on characters, themes, words, etc. Exploring working in a more analog style on this project. Although I’ve not been able to write nearly as much as I long to do, writing this way is deeply satisfying. And here’s a little teaser - when I do start releasing Season 3, I’ll also be sharing pictures of character moodboards, notecards, etc :) Not yet, my dears, because, spoilers, but… a little further down the road. 

In the early mornings, precious stolen time before the world devours the day away, you can find me wrapped in a scarf, pen in hand, a cup of gorgeous black espresso making train clouds of steam across the window panes.

And yet this is an illusion. 
For I am not there at all…

I’ve vanished into the world you know so well, of Singing Sands, the Wye River and the shimmering Mystery. Evening’s Kingdom Book 3 takes place four hundred years after the delicious ending of Book 3 (egads, I can’t wait to read that to you!) and is a sweep across generations… well more on that later. For now, let us keep to the instrumental details, for any of you who take as much pleasure in the details of daily routines as I do:

I’m completely obsessed with pens. All sorts, but for years and years I’ve been a (retractable) Pilot V5 girl. And then, drumroll please… this past winter, I made the joyous discovery of Pilot’s Fountain pens. ¡Me encanta! My future self is working up to the responsibility of a proper fountain pen - these little fellows are just training wheels. But god, I ove them; the sensuous glide of wet, blackest ink -! The scritching nib -! For all those oppressed by our racing digital world, I cannot recommend the pleasures of pen & ink rituals to you enough. Even - especially - for to-do lists at work - with pen & ink you seize back your own priorities in a way digital to-do lists invariably disallow. I also highly recommend them for journaling, if you are, like me, occasionally so inclined.

Right. I have wandered from the path. But the moon is full, and in writing you, so too is all of me. 

This is Paula Schmidt, and thank you for your alliance, for listening, my lovelies. I miss all of you. More from me soon. 

For now, with love from the wind…
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xxx
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