Don’t Overdo

We don’t have a tree up, I haven’t acquired stocking stuffers, and I’m not sure where the stockings are.

These were all on my mind as I pulled this card from don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements deck.

Now I’m thinking of Halloween. Mary was Tippi Hedren from Hitchcock’s The Birds one year before we met. She took bloody pecks out of a stylish blazer, wired birds around her, and had more birds torturing her hair. It was brilliant.

We overdid it all. Costumes, hikes, meals, decorations…we never sat for more than an evening by the fire. Even that would be rife with problem solving and planning.I don’t know if that’s what left her depleted and unable to fight off the infection, or whether she knew in her soul that her time would not be long. Both could be true.

I’m finding my pace. I’m learning how to rest.

I’m going to do my nest today.

God bless and thank you for reading,

Jason

Evermore Imagining

My sons were in their first years of life when they met Edgar Allen Poe at Brandywine River Museum‘s Picturing Poe exhibition. This Arthur Rackham illustration of “The Tell-Tale Heart” greeted us and I wasn’t sure we would make it much farther.

They survived hearing Vincent Price’s reading of “The Raven” and all the tastefully gruesome artwork. Perhaps they thrived.

To this day, October means Poe. We just watched the inventive animated movie “Extraordinary Tales,” but are most excited for Delaware Shakespeare’s Shakespeare, Poe & Fiends performances this weekend. Tonight’s reading is sold out, but there are tickets available for the following shows:

Stone Stable
Friday, October 12 at 7:30pm

Historic Odessa
201 Main Street
Odessa, DE 19730

Old Town Hall
Saturday, October 13 at 7:30pm

Delaware Historical Society
504 N. Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19801

Old State House
Sunday, October 14 at 3:00pm

25 The Green
Dover, DE 19901

Grab a friend (preferably an easily shaken one) and meet some fiends this weekend.

Chillingly,
Jason