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Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Still n eed to take up comments and revise. I actually opened the file this month, because I discovered a missing scene! Need to find a way to work that in.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Continued to think thoughts.  Short Stories: I have two open on my late night desktop now, and I pick away at one of them most every night.  Critted  4  Got back  2 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Cathar  (self). Finished the endless finishing.   Blushing Cloud  (Knitty S/S24). Started the month with five inches of back done (up from three). Now I have 7.5, so half done.  Elbrus socks II . Last month I had started the first. Ran out of yarn, finished first, almost done second.  Hamilton  (Self). Started. will get to second colorway and decide if I hate it or not. I think I don't. I'm still on the waistband though, which looks ugly. But it's early.  Sashiko project:  Nothing.   Ruffle skirt:  Nothing.  Purple Romper:  Since

An interesting stat (to me anyway): Nine (1/8) of the books on my library holds list are sequels to things I've already read. I think only six are non-series books by an author I've read before.  LHC #265: "Silver in the wood" by Emily Tesh. eBook, nice and short and delightful. The follow-up is on the list.   LHC #266: "How we learn to move" by Rob Gray PhD. Hard copy because that's what the library had. There are a lot of pics in this book and they are low-quality. While the concepts are interesting, I had to make an effort to relate them to the activities I participate in.  Most interesting perhaps was the brief discussion of habit and automatic portions of a movement, and whether automation is something we should even strive for. For me, if there's a portion of a movement I can automate, that's a win, because then I can focus on something else, e.g., automating the embusen of a kata. But is that even automated? At the same time, the idea th