Getting Back to Cavern Life

Wow.  So much has happened since I last jotted down any free thoughts I had.  The Publication Committee has approved the Publication for Publication and we all had a great time at the review session.  I had a wonderful committee who all gave me great ideas and a lot of constructive feedback.

I also ended a stint of teaching in two places at once.  It was interesting speeding my way between two completely different ages, stopping briefly to change to appropriate the wardrobe on my way here or there.  I didn't look up much at all.  Details of that time will take a while to sort out and set down.  I'll add it to the CavernScents Story, no doubt.  Aunt Dolly's role in events of the past few months still don't make sense to me.  It was so out of character for her to act the way she did.  I almost think she was someone else for a while.

At any rate, I am happy to say I'm much calmer, more relaxed, and back to working on projects on the surface, at CCN, and at the Healers.  I've just about got myself back to where I can stay in the Cavern for a long time without getting kicked out or pulled back up to the surface.  I think my Relto book page was crinkled or something.

Publication Review Date Set

The Committee for Quality Publication (Including Correct Grammar) Review will meet with me in mid-October to tell me whether will publish the monograph I have been working on for seven years.  Whether they have read it or skimmed the introduction and topic statements, they will give me suggestions for improvements to my argument, evidence, and organization.


Now the tedious work of editing must begin....


I'm glad for the peace and beauty of the cabin.  It distracts me less than my Relto at present.

I came across an odd bit of writing today.  I can't tell where it came from, but it is a different handwriting than that of my Aunt Dolly.  There was a picture of my new cabin house laying on the desk beside it.

The scrap of paper and the picture:

"It is nice to have her sitting here with me, though she writes of her laments while I write necessary things.  In truth, we would both rather tell the real story.


Still, that we are together, I suppose, is the most important."

btw, I did visit with Dolly, finally.  I am journaling that, although I haven't finished those pages, yet.

What Friends are For

While Ruby visited with me in the Healers' Outreach Retreat a few weeks ago, I showed her, somewhat hesitantly, the letter from my Aunt Dolly.

I did not want to go, as I was far from the White Mountains of Arizona at the time, and even if I used the Nexus to get back to the Cleft I would
spend two days going to Dolly's house on the surface. My deadline for meeting with The Publication Committee Chairperson was marching toward me at an uncomfortably rapid pace, and I did not want to risk failing to meet that deadline.

There was the additional pressure I had put on myself by starting a Relto remodel this summer.  That was foolish, but there it is, and now I must finish before I have to spend large amounts of time away again.

Such a strange letter from Dolly has been on my mind.  Actually, any letter from Dolly is strange, as she generally calls or beeps me when she's dusting an age in the Cavern and sees that I am there.  Ruby agreed, saying what I already knew -- that I would go, I would go before The Meeting, and I may as well just get it over with.  We haggled and argued as we always do in our best friends fashion, and then I wrote back to Aunt Dolly and promised to visit her in the next couple of weeks.  Hopefully, I would progress speedily on The Publication and would have it finished before I left.  I could spend a few days with Dolly and still return in time for The Meeting.

Letter from Aunt Dolly

Slow Illumination

This has got to be the craziest place I've ever been.  I send out a KI-ping and it comes right back and pings me in the rear.  I know that I know what I just said (to the air, no less) but I don't need a darned reminder of it everywhere I go.

I must be messing up the settings, or something.  Or this -Verse has a "DollySense of Humor."

Dropping a Note to Ruby

Um, I know I should know where I am, but I don't. Hope you can read this because everything went dark ..... still is.

I would send up a flair but I don't have one. I could send up a scent but that would be nonsense. So, well, I guess I'll keep looking whenever I get some light.

Hey, would you contact Jane or Tai? I know they had some nice light yesterday.

'See' you soon.