November 2012
If there is one element to the fall season it is about
change. A change of perspective which recreates nature into a completely
different world. Maple leaves which a few weeks ago were shimmering green, turn
red and orange overnight. Fig leaves drop from branches and bare limbs startle
in their thinness. Sun flowers so proud to reach for the sky bend to the earth
in defeat. Hop vines cover the barn and reveal a massive brown web. Colors turn
to chartreuse; red, living plants shrivel and withdraw into slumber.
Writing and plotting my new story is also about
change. Taking a common element and giving it a jolt, a twist, and I follow
that change to an element still hidden from me. Take an ordinary world and make
it something other. And that other, is hopefully a concept which makes the
reader pause and think of possibilities. Uncomfortable possibilities are the
most provocative.
The boundaries of reality slip into fantasy like
the seasonal changes in my garden.
