their process took shape

i ordered american prometheus from interlibrary loan but i was smoking crack because it’s SO long and i’d never make it by the deadline because i’m the slowest reader alive. also incredible title. i later bought a used copy (as yet unopened) (not the book’s fault) but i loved this article about the partnership between writers martin sherwin and kai bird. sounds like my dream:

Their process took shape: Bird would pore over the research, synthesize it, and produce a draft which he’d send to Sherwin, who would recognize what was missing, edit and rewrite, and return the copy to Bird. Soon Sherwin was drafting as well. “We wrote furiously for four years,” Bird said.

Sherwin always knew that the hearing that stripped Oppenheimer of his clearance would be the “epicenter” of the biography, Bird said. They argued about what the evidence might suggest, but never about style, process, or the shape of the book itself. “It became,” Susan Sherwin said, “almost a magical thing.”

“Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making” by Andy Kifer

tonight’s to-dos

1. make the beds
2. make whipped cream

a really good uber eats search history

trying something

great moments yesterday

1. reading my sci fi book and falling asleep (the ferryman — engrossing but imperfect and not as good as the passage)
2. getting a fancy coffee on the way to work (7:40am)
3. ross buying me that cake out of kindness and eating it this morning

yesterday i learned

1. how it feels to be scared/exhausted

i am grateful for

1. my family
2. ross
3. two dumb little yappy mutts
4. bonus fourth — my friends
5. bonus fifth — ROCK PILLOW

what would make today (tomorrow) great

1. fancy coffee in the morning?
2. getting a lot of stuff done
3. linda getting good news from the doctor

was trying to do the five minute journal prompts, via moon lists…but can’t get excited for the last two — i affirm and i might feel better if. feel too scooped out to think about those things.

digging this home vibration

true love

the best herb

TARRAGON

no further questions

the dessert i didn’t have

good poem, “the dessert i didn’t have” by brenda shaughnessy

good things

• pina coladas
• pina coladas drunk while floating in a pool
• teddy and frankie chasing the ball together
• my new “dream wife” tee shirt
• cookie dough in the freezer
• all the besties in all the land
• the idea of this place
• finishing a very very bad book (scorched grace — theoretically fun concept, but completely dumb execution) and getting to start a new book
• speaking of good books — the slough house series
• these two photos, my extreme happy place

new addition