The title is the name of the first section of what I once imagined–and still sometimes am certain–will be a book whose title will be “One Place Understood.” The first chapter is Finding Floyd.
When I wrote this in early 2016, I was making good progress and had a clear vision of the end for this project. Then the presidential campaigning began, culminating in the election that abolished many a dream–of writers and lovers, of nature and science advocates and of the truth-oriented community from all walks of life–who like me, abandoned their heart’s work in disbelief and recoiled in horror at the spectacle that is America crumbling before them.
But I am trying to recover from all that, even as it proceeds to deeper and deeper levels of decay. I vow to regain my footing, to re-envision the full and complete and final saying of what it is I want to say in this third book of the trilogy from Goose Creek. But then, IÂ have vowed such things before.
So, at least this morning, my thought is that I will put some of the completed rough drafts on the blog–which will make me un-roughen them in another pass; it will make me somewhat accountable, at least to the handful of blog readers who hang on. And even in the absence of readers, the blog is a life story that will outlive me, even if the book never sees the light of day. It is a tepid legacy, but more than many find the time or the words for. Why stop now after only 16 years of blogging?
Blog readers tend more and more to read less and less in any given place. So if you want to read this first 1000 words, you can find it at Medium.com where, if I can sustain the motivation and find sufficient interest, I will compile some portion of the book for pre-publication consumption. Should Iive so long…
FINDING FLOYD: Chapter One/Part One ~ Finding One’s Place
…from a possible book with the possible title:One Place Understood: Field Notes from a Small Planet
And for the sake of keeping up with the Big Picture of this bit of story-telling, and mostly for my own sake, I’ll append a link to the mind-map of my current thinking about the book’s structure. Just click the image:
Fred i see your working on your next book . And im really likeing what i see and read i started my family in the 70s as well and took a city girl who had running water all her life and brought her home to a 4 room shack no inside plumbing wood heat and a big garden .
Now 44 years later shes still here hanging out .the kids are gone making me a grandpaw now im retired to roam the mts around here at will its been 4 months and im not tired of it so far .
Well this is just one chapter in my book as i see how easy it is to put this down on paper with spell check .
At 65 years i read a book or two because books took me places i had never been and will never go.but your books let me reflect on my self as your way of telling your story about your life story as well. S Fred im waiting on the next book dont make me wait to long sir .
I amso glad you will be posting rough drafts of your book!Write on,Fred!