Seeking turns 10 years old this week! Tomorrow, in fact. (The oldest file on the site was set up on August 12, 2010.)
I’ll be talking a bit in the coming week or three about why I started it, what I’m hoping for it, and maybe highlighting some pieces.
Last week
A book launch week, so a lot of my time and energy went toward the very many steps involved in that. (I will say that an offering to Mercury for the tech side of it going smoothly and quickly has been doing very well for me.)
It was also my best launch and best day of sales yet, so that was delightful. (In absolutely terms, this is not a huge amount of money, but every bit helps, and every book people buy and enjoy is a delight in the world.)
At work: However, there were also complicated things. A very long-time staff member at work died of a heart attack, and he will be hugely missed by so many people in the institution. I always loved each and every one of his phone calls, which always made my day brighter, and always were about interesting topics.
As part of my job, I spent Thursday pulling together details about his life and work for memorial information, and then was asked to write a profile of him on Friday. It’s one of those weird places where my role as librarian, my writing skills, and the fact my religious life includes psychopomp work on occasion got tangled. I don’t regret any of that, but it was a lot of emotional heavy lifting, on top of my own grief.
Saturday: Last Dedicant class for my current Dedicants, discussing initiation. We’re not in a position to do initiations immediately, due to the pandemic, and there is a two week waiting period before they can request initiation, so there’s that to sort through yet. But it’s a definite change in cycle.
(We did not have Seeker class, due to an emergency for one of the Seekers.)
This week
I am on vacation at work, and head down in a bunch of wiki editing for my writing work. (So many projects, so little time.) My farm share has produced tons of corn and squash and other tasty things, so I am looking forward to cooking that this week, and I have nascent tomatoes on my tomato plant! (So excited: I did not manage either flowers or tomatoes last year)
Saturday: Initiate discussion, and we now have a plan for the next year (while we’re in initiation and other limbo for a bit) that I like, should be manageable time wise, and should be flexible enough to adapt as we go forward.
(I’m trying to get us as a coven to roughly doing things every two weeks, both to give me a bit more of my weekends back – when we have coven stuff on Saturdays, I get very little else done – and to have a reasonably predictable schedule for everyone to plan around. There are exceptions when that makes sense, but we’ll see how this goes.)
