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How do I know?

The ground bees are BACK, and more numerous than ever.

The NNW-most quarter of the back yard looks just like this.

Ground bees are very docile. I spent hours once taking pictured of them at the old house. They’re only around for a month or so, then the grass takes over.

“Bossy” per se is not the problem: the problem is that we still see power and authority as male prerogatives, and women who aspire to them as unwomanly, unlikeable, and bad. If “bossy” could actually vanish off the face of the earth, a wealth of similar expressions would fill the gap: ambitious, pushy, shrill, strident, aggressive, manipulative, bitchy – to list a few. Each of these either is not used of men or, when it is, has a positive connotation (as with “ambitious”).

From The Meaning of “Bossy”

All this talk about poems has made me think.

Child me loved verse. You’d not guess that, in light of how I spend words. Still, it’s true, as true as fleas bite dogs.

I’ve learned to take care with words at work. They sell me out. “Who wrote their job was ‘bleak’? Must be that one there, with the book of words.”

When asked if I had a play list for my fic, I laughed. I did, but tunes were just the shell.

The core is verse.

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While the posting is on hiatus, I wanted to toss out an update, should anyone be checking on me.

After considerable poking and prodding and scalp-scrubbing, the following has been accomplished:

• Cantata is now officially a two part work. I’ll update titles accordingly once posting resumes. Overall, this affects little, and if I’d had half a brain in the beginning, it mightn’t have sprawled so big (longer chapters).
• Synopsis has been formulated and run past those Critical Eyes Brave Enough to Look at Spoilers. I’m pleased. (I’m crap at synopsis-writing, too.)
• Character charts of GMC are written, and yielded a handful of plot beats and solutions. Yay!

Now, I’m off to work.