Happy Easter!

There’s a tradition at the church I visited today, flowering the cross. The children of the parish put flowers into a cross. The picture shows what it looked like.

April is here, and Lent is over. Easter was early, the last day of March.

The weather is getting warmer, so we’re seeing more of the neighborhood animals, a cat, and some wild deer.

Yes, folks, up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, wild deer gambol around the neighborhood. This one was sitting next to the picnic table DH brought from the garage and put onto the deck.

This is the Easter season; it persists through Pentecost. How did Lent go for me? It went well, I was more disciplined about my social media. I focused on things that felt uplifting and wholesome. I liked the results that followed, things seemed calmer and more focused. I want to continue.

I bought a skirt in clergy tartan. Here’s what the pattern looks like. It goes well with a black clerical shirt and blue slacks. A senior retired clergy member gave me a rabat that has a similar pattern. I wore it to clergy day just so that he could see it!

The writing? There’s a certain feeling when your critique group members suggest a story line that you can then work with, breaking the block that had been sitting with you for some time. It’s worth thinking about it. I’ve made a note into my file for keeping track of my ideas for this project.

Otherwise, I’m at the point that I’m ready to move on from working with my critique group on the current manuscript. Thus, I’ve been revising, aiming to pull the entire manuscript together into a whole rather than the chopped submissions I’d been working with for a long time.

My latest writing class has ended, and I’ll need to make revisions for the first submission the class looked at then submit to my critique groups. The merry-go-round continues!

I hope to finish reading this book soon. It seems like I’ve been reading it since the fall, that’s a long time!