Little Crater Heart

I will be in Austin at the Texas Book Festival this weekend. I am appearing on Sunday, and I will be floating around on Saturday. Say hello if you see me!

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Hi friends.

Yesterday it rained and rained so hard and fast that I fell deeply asleep in the middle of the day for an hour. Like I actually fell to the bed, and I couldn’t get up. Every time I tried to rouse myself, I kept thinking, “There is no good reason to be sleeping.” Except that every ounce of my body and self clearly needed it. It was an incredible nap.

When the rain stopped I woke up and then I tried to remember all the things I was thinking and feeling, and I took notes on all of it. But when I was done and I looked back at what I wrote down, there were only two things that made sense. This was one of them:

Today is a good day to talk yourself into writing instead of out of it.

Oh god, that sounds hard, I thought.

But I’ll get to the rest of that in a second.