Monday's Musing: Sunshine, Sunflowers and Seers
The struggle is real this week, but I'm making some progress.
To me sunflowers represent summer. The hot, sticky days filled with sunshine and lemonade. Or better yet some sun tea in a tall glass filled with ice cubes. Every time I see one I remember the soft hazy sunshine streaming in the dusty windows in our kitchen growing up. The dark green table top and the screwheads sticking out where the legs had to be reattached after we found it on garbage day.
I don’t grow sunflowers. I’ve tried multiple times and one year I got one scraggly flower that tried its best but never grew into a giant flower filled with glory. Now I buy them at the market. Each Saturday at the farmers’ market if the flower people have them, I always buy a few stems. Its required. My partner admitted he didn’t understand my love of them or why they are my favorite flower. But they have grown on him.
August is the pinnacle of sunflower season. Bright giant flowers sit on my kitchen table in a white pitcher. Every time I see them I smiled, which is good because this week I have been struggling. I hoped to be 10k into the second book in the Seer series that I’m publishing early next year. Yet, the meds I’m currently on make it hard to sleep. The outline is in a much better place and I’m hoping tomorrow I can hit the ground running.
This week I have been playing a ton of video games that require little thought. I’ve also been revisiting one of my favorite series with a seer in it. ‘There’s Not to Reason Why’ by Jean Johnson. Part of it is research the other is I’m so tired that I know I’m not reading everything on the page but that’s okay. I’ve read these books so often the spines are cracked and the pages rough.
Last week on Substack, I interviewed Nyssa Thornheart from The Witch of the Lunar Order.
Character Interview: Nyssa Thornheart
Character Interview: Nyssa From Witch of the Lunar Order by Tara Davis Witches are known as children of the sun, but when the Goddess of the Moon claims one as her own the balance of power begins to shift. Let's get to know Nyssa - welcome to this interview.
I’m loving this serial on Substack - it’s so good. It’s a cozy fantasy and I want to work in the coffee shop. I feel like the coffee shop in her story would be friends with the magical bookshop in MEOW. They might be secret best friends forever - we’ll never know!