Fitness and foolish stubborness combined for an awakening in a predawn beach walk run
Null Stillness:
land of spirit for a barren soul
Opening thoughts on a generational novel, just a couple of notes this is entirely fictional. Many of the words are ones I have heard people use. I named a character Karen, I was feeling maybe some real life Karens were getting tired of being a meme. It is a novel of people’s lives over many generations. I have tried to portray a world I knew and one I grew up in. My characters are not unlike people I have known, but none of them are based on an actual person I have known. I try to make no reference to anything not in line with the timeframe a story is set in. Stories occur in different times starting in the 1960's to 2022’?’. Although the present is ever blended with an ancient past in this novel. It is a series of dialogs where people relate their stories and reveal themselves not always intentionally. Many reveal selves at odds with what they believe about themselves.
It is a collection of stories or scenes, that tell a longer story of a family farm. Enjoy my playlist on Apple Music Null Stillness. The song lyrics are referenced, or the song is mentioned somewhere in the novel. The songs are not paralleling the stories, usually chosen because I heard a phrase in my mind and then added the song.
Apple Music Playlist Null Stillness
I cannot count how many times I cried as I wrote and reread these stories. I am not hoping you cry; I am hoping you find the characters as real as I did.
Photo to right is of me after a hot day hiking, waiting, watching, and hiking back in Land Between Lakes to see the eclipse in 2017.
