Happy spring, everyone! I am writing this the morning after the spring equinox, the day when we have “equal night,” meaning the same number of hours of daylight versus darkness. And I learned a new term this year, because when I looked at the sunrise and sunset times for my location on March 20th, I wondered why we had twelve hours and eight minutes of daylight on the equinox instead of an even twelve light, twelve dark.
Of course, it has to do with the curve of the earth and how the sunlight hits your particular area. But each location on earth (at least, the areas not near the poles) does have one day of an exact equal time of light versus dark. In north Georgia, that day is March 16.
It’s called the equilux. Equal light. So, if you want to find your exact first day of spring by the balance of daylight versus darkness, look up the equilux for your region.
I was recently given the opportunity to join in the series of author interviews featured on Patheos with the Catholic Bard. I was asked several questions, some of which touched on different angles than I have shared before. Check it out here:
Interview with the Catholic Bard
Beta reading of Fallen Angel is well underway! Of my beta readers, more than half have started reading and leaving feedback, and one has finished the whole thing! Feedback so far confirms some of my critique group feedback: Seth is a favorite; Theresa is harder to understand and like. My task: deciding how much of this is a problem and how much of it is what the story is meant to be. Theresa has always been a more questionable character, steeped in confusion because she doesn’t understand herself well, and readers shouldn’t like some of her decisions. There is a sweet spot I need to find: how to help her retain that sense of self that she doesn’t really have (just looking at that phrasing hurts my brain, haha) while also making her clearer to the reader in what she (thinks she) wants. I’ve got some good, concrete ideas for how to make her circumstances/situation clearer, too, and I hope that will shed some more light on her.
Thank you so much to my beta readers! I really appreciate you all!
And I’m still trying to decide what to do with Up in Flames. Really want to send that book out into the world sooner than later!
For what would have been Flannery O’Connor’s 100th birthday, her artwork has been displayed in the museum at Andalusia in Milledgeville, Georgia. My family drove down last month to check it out. We had already been to Andalusia and toured the home and the grounds two years earlier. We only did the museum this time, because there was a downpour all day!
Here are a few photos to share. For the full tour experience, you can find my post here if you aren’t able to make the trip yourself.
Most of this artwork was stored in the attic of a relative’s home nearby, and it was recently donated to the museum. You can find the details here.
Wise Blood is on my list of books to read this year. It is an ambitious list, so we will see if I get to it!
I recently read Elizabeth Goudge’s The Bird in the Tree, the first book in the Eliot Family Series. I LOVED it and read the whole thing in under three days. Highly recommend this dramatic family saga with historical setting tie-ins that explores the concept that doing what is right doesn’t always make you feel happy, but it is worth it in the end. A much-needed message for today’s culture of “do what makes you feel good in the moment.”
Until next time,
Erin
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