Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Fleeting Opportunity


May 2019 Blog

Not a good idea to leave until tomorrow that which should have been done yesterday.
Fleeting Opportunity: A Haiku
by Ann Wilmer-Lasky
Do it now – ‘ere a
Thing happens to prevent its
Doing – as it will.
Don’t ask me how I know, I just know.

Life always seems to get in the way of the best laid plans of mice and men. On the writing front, the audio book for “The Seasons of Sam Rock” has been postponed again due to unforeseen circumstances. The new launch date is May 31, 2019.

My newest Haiku chapbook: “Life’s Lemons and Lemonade, Volume Three: Global Warning” will be published on or about August 27th (National “Just Because” Day) Why? Just because I didn’t get it done by Earth Day (April 22, 2019) and I can’t find another really appropriate day for the release. Seems there is no “Climate Change Is Real” day.


Life itself has taken a back seat to the intrusion of life. No details important enough to share. Just a bunch of little things and advancing age (although the latter doesn’t seem to be the excuse to end all excuses like I thought it would be).

I’m actually getting to the point of declaring “Now, before it’s Never!” and really know the meaning of it.

I’m also becoming fond of the expressions “No time like the present” and “Don’t put off until tomorrow, what you can do today”. Then there’s the biblical, “Sufficient unto the day are the problems thereof”.

Another thing that’s given me impetus to get things done lately is the new HBO limited series: “Gentleman Jack.” (The adaptation of the real life diaries of the Anne Lister starring Suranne Jones)




Don’t know if it’s her “take charge attitude” or her “decisiveness” or even just the great music they play when she walks. I love it all, including the theme song done by “O'Hooley & Tidow”.




It doesn’t hurt that Anne Lister also wrote coded diaries of over four million words during her lifetime. Had I faithfully kept journals the last “hundred” or so years that is my lifetime, what a rich history I might have left for posterity.

We don’t even have to get into Anne Lister’s unconventional lifestyle for back then (although it will be mentioned in future blogs), we only need to know that she went against the grain and survived. She was “true to her nature” and lived her “authentic life”. I admire her for that.
I’m grateful to playwright and producer Sally Wainwright for bringing this to all of us on HBO and I’ll be the  first in line to buy the DVD when it comes out.


I’ll be doing more research on Sally Wainwright for future blogs as well as a previous video on Ann Lister and books concerning her life and diaries. I’m also grateful to her descendants who found and decoded her writings, and who didn’t throw them away.

This month, I’ll be working on “The Chronicles of Acqueria: The Early Years” in addition to all my other projects. (I have way too many “Works-In-Progress”.)

 So my featured book this month is the one that started it all, my first published novel “The Chronicles of Acqueria: Blood Moon Treachery”.



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My featured poetry is both of “The Castleweaver’s Tales” chapbooks. Eldreth insisted, as he is insisting on me completing his novel. (Yep, one of those W.I.P.’s)


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Until next time, keep the faith. Keep writing and keep reading. Enjoy what other universes may make you happy. Perhaps someday, even this one will match up to our ideals, but I’m still not holding my breath.

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