{"id":7261,"date":"2021-12-14T16:29:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:29:46","slug":"writing-log-12-14-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=7261","title":{"rendered":"Writing Log &#8211; 12\/14\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Morning pages again today. Skipped some days: it&#8217;s allowed. I worked on text for this year&#8217;s Christmas card. How many more years will we continue this labor of love, labor of creativity? Maybe it&#8217;s time to write the book about our thirty or so annual cards, imitations of everyday things like a menu, a song-book, a college bulletin, a wanted poster, a wallet, a corporate annual report,  and much more, all written to communicate what&#8217;s happened with the family during the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is full. It&#8217;s easy to prioritize your time when you have an employer expecting you to appear each day at a certain time and work until another certain time. The tasks of a person retired from that sort of employment are compelling for too many good reasons: opportunity to spend time with _______ (grandchildren, wife, children), prime time for hobbies like gardening, plus a long string of medical and other necessities and commitments. Writing is becoming a priority, it is a priority, but too often I let it give way to something else. Maybe I do need to leave the house for some hours each day to &#8220;go to work,&#8221; defining a set time as writing time. I&#8217;d get more done quicker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Printed text of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening to be the next poem to review. Formerly memorized ones come back pretty fast. How many will I be able to keep active simultaneously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning pages again today. Skipped some days: it&#8217;s allowed. I worked on text for this year&#8217;s Christmas card. How many more years will we continue this labor of love, labor of creativity? Maybe it&#8217;s time to write the book about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=7261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}