Skip Month: Out looking for clovers

Folks who saw this project’s first post saw that my commitment to share a story on nine of each year’s full moons would leave three (sometimes four) full moons per year with no story. This is for grace, margin, and whimsy, leaving room for something else, like this, while the stories simmer. 

Even though, this month, I’m ready-enough to share the story of my encounter with the frontiersman poet John Perry Barlow, I’m stoked to hold onto it for another lunar month, building a buffer and making some space for revisions. 

I’m also stoked to use a word I hadn’t used yet here: book.

This is a book. Well, maybe not this specific part, but the main parts, with the stories. Book.

For decades now, people have made blogs into books, after the blog has reached some level of success. For this, I see no need to wait for "success," and I want to give you credit, dear reader, for reading a serialized book, as was once more common with books.

One benefit of this: when a person asks you, "What are you reading?" Clover Finder’s Encounters with Ancestors might have a place on the list of what you share with that person. 

One risk: "What happens if it isn't finished?" I'm at peace with unfinished books, both as a reader and as a writer, and I invite you into a similar peace with process, a peace that leans forward to the future. On some level, nothing is ever truly finished.

Thanks for being here. I admire each of you individually, and I admire you as a group.

And thanks for waiting until next full moon for a story. It's scheduled and ready to go.

Glad to be in touch.