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This must be the right thing to do…

Filed under: Uncategorized — kathryntherese at 8:44 am on Tuesday, July 24, 2007

I have given copies of the Stations to a small handful of trusted editors, and as none of them and no one here has said that I shouldn’t go forward with them, I’m taking that as God’s, “It’s a go.”

An artist friend even offered to sketch them! I had not thought about illustrations, wondering if we would be using photographs of the bas reliefs in our cathedral, but I prefer drawings. I have never seen a detailed drawing of this kind from my friend’s pencil, but I trust that if she is inspired, God is doing the inspring. Let’s keep her in prayer as she searches for the right images within the meditations and within herself.

I’ll need to re-read them myself for clarity and punctuation, as I’ve not looked at them again yet. When someone pointed out my lack of capitalization in some spots, I confessed that I often compose at the keyboard with my eyes closed. My children find it astonishing that I can sit at the laptop in the sunlight, because the screen is so difficult to see. They find it more amazing that Mom can type without looking. Often, I am outside (for solitude and birdsong and blue sky) with my forehead on the table, eyes closed, forehead sometimes knotted up, and my fingers dancing away. What a strange picture.

I will take a look and do some editing, then I will be giving them to the bishop who suggested I write them in the first place to get his feedback. Then we’ll get them printed up.

Now all I need is an agent… ;)

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Comment by C.O.

July 24, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

Excellent! Well done. Good heavens, start to finish in about 60 seconds. :-) I was wondering if Fr. Victor would be illustrating or not. I laughed at your description of how you appear at your keyboard. I believe it! I can only play at editing, now, and have to order myself to seek out typos or choppy or rambly things, as I’m coming to favor the honesty of the imperfect, similarly to how one loves a freckled face or remotely (far-fetchedly) similarly to the way Dysmas loved no less than God right through the Isaiah description of our poor Christ, Who first loved right through all the mess who was Dysmas.

Were there typos in any of your stuff? :-)

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Comment by kathryntherese

July 24, 2007 @ 3:58 pm

There were some capitalization issues (do we capitalize “cross” and “passion”? And I sometimes forgot to capitalize “You.”), and one run-on, according to one editor. I will take a look soon.

As for the good Fr. Victor, I had hoped that he would illustrate, but he is a bit busy getting used to parish life… He is full of book knowledge, and now he will learn people from a new perspective. He expressed some interest in continuing to collaborate, but was frank about not knowing what his schedule would be like. So when someone else offered, I took it as a good sign to go forward. And this “new artist” is so ecstatic about collaborating that I feel like I’m doing her a favor, instead of her doing something kind for me!

I’m with you on the editing - once you see through to the heart, it is difficult to critique form, eh?

Maybe that’s why you don’t see my typos ;)

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Comment by Gabrielle

July 28, 2007 @ 3:36 pm

This is exciting news, kt. Best of luck with everything concerning publication.

I always type without looking (thanks to Sr. Who Shall Remain Nameless in Grade 9), but not usually with my head on the table! That would certainly have gained us a detention, or the possibility of having to hold hands with her in front of the class while singing, “God is Love”. Tough choice, that.

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Comment by C.O.

July 30, 2007 @ 9:59 am

Man. You parochial school kids have all the fun.

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Comment by Pia

July 31, 2007 @ 11:20 am

That’s great news KT! I’m so glad we got a preview of it. What a privilege!
Oh, C.O…how lucky you were not to go to parrochial school! One of the few good experiences was my typing teacher in 9th grade, too. We used to call Sister “Tweetie” because she was a tiny thing with big eyes (magnified by super thick lenses), was about 100 years old, and bore an uncanny resemblance to both tweety and the little old granny.
I was not good at typing at the time, but through the years I have gained the same level more or less, as KT. Tweetie would be proud, I’m sure-.

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Comment by kathryntherese

July 31, 2007 @ 11:47 am

Who knew, way back when we were learning on manual typewriters, that our keyboarding skills would be quite as useful as they are? I mean, I could not have envisioned the amount of daily typing I would do - writing, emailing, blogging.

And who knew that the kind of writing I would be doing would be expedited by being able to close my eyes in meditation while typing?!

God lays the best foundations, if we let Him.

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Comment by Pia

August 1, 2007 @ 10:29 am

Amen! :-)

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Comment by C.O.

August 1, 2007 @ 1:19 pm

Ah, Underwood Days (Smith Corona for you? or the modern IBM Selectric?).. carbon paper, erasers with brushes on the end.. dinosaurs munching just outside the window .. seems like yesterday. (Great, now I’m thinking about Gorgeous Gloria’s gorgeous red MG out in the parking lot..) I’m thankful for knowing the keyboard without looking, but I’ve noticed that even kids and men and other gals who’ve never been taught keyboarding skills (let alone Typing I and II by a retired Naval CO who literally readied us for the Pentagon, even moreso with the help of her friends, Gregg Shorthand Jr. and Sr.) can speed right along with 2 fingers and 2 thumbs these days.

How talented you are! If I meditated while typing, I couldn’t do either one. My hands would keep going to the top of my head. Gosh, you’d be even trickier than ol’ Ms. “Ma’am, yes ma’am!” Brown if you tried to teach that.
:-)

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