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The last of the dirty threads of July are posted.I've named a few of them for characters from
Dee Mallon's debut novel, "The Weight of Cloth" - Saffron, Melody, and July. All women of color and consequence despite their enslavement.
The book is still in pre-production and yesterday I had the honor of offering Dee some suggestions for the blurb - that powerful first taste of the story you get after the book's front cover has captured your eye.I was up half the night thinking about those scant paragraphs. Woke up excited to be at The Work of moving words around to make a certain kind of magic.Of course, the devil Technology tried to thwart me right out of the box, but I sat through 45 minutes of this laptop updating itself. My fault for letting one of my most important tools languish and get rusty. I have been warned!
It was 67 degrees when I woke around first light. Bailey was on me, poking his bony face into my hand and licking away my salt. It was a delight to walk around the house and open some windows. Let in some cool, unfiltered air. It will be a fine pool day later.
I'll be spending the last week of the month with Charlie. We will spin some new/old vinyl, experiment with acrylic paint, catch up on a few old movies, and explore a new water hole.
I'm sneaking a second language up on him. He is interested in Japanese culture and language, but I think we'll start with the ground I'm familiar with, French.
He reads to me from whatever has his fancy at the moment and stumbled across "Sacre bleu!" I looked up the translation and pronunciation for him and his accent when he repeated it was perfect!
4 comments:
can't wait to read Dee's book ... soon I hope ... love the dirty thread teaser
as for French, I took it from 5th to 12th grade, enough to earn me six college credits ... haven't had much use for it in the past 50 years, but it does come in handy every so often when doing the NYT crossword ... and recently I did get to tutor Griffin on the correct (as far as I could manage it) pronunciation of cabernet sauvignon ... hilarity ensured
I took French as a backup to Latin. Turns out French was harder than Latin, but it was too late to drop the class. Four years and I can't yell FIRE in a burning French theater but I can mostly read and understand it. He's keen on learning to swear in languages other than English. Sneaky devil. I have been teaching him Latin prefixes and suffixes since Sesame Street.
This is so great! Dee's book almost here and your threads named to welcome it ❤️ Charlie has such varied interests. I can still sing my "Hello Friends" classroom greeting song in Japanese. An old coworker came to CA from Japan as a young adult :)
My daughter took French in high school. She danced ballet and felt that connection. ha
I took intensive Japanese in college. It’s got a rat-a-tat quality that’s hard for those of us used to intonation. I’ll never forget my professor telling us that in Japan, one of their favorite English words (because of it sounded) was UPCHUCK.
Thrilling to see threads named for my characters. Cannot wait to share the book. Your assistance at every stage has been invaluable!
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