I miss my weekly yoga classes. I attended them for more than twenty years, but during Covid, the studio closed down, they sold the props, they sold the building. Caput! No more yoga classes near home.
I’m thinking about exercising self-discipline and practicing at home. But it won’t be the same.
In a world undergoing change, we have to expect losses. And though we pick up the pieces, they don’t fit back together the way they were before.
Sophie
Sophie gets an excited pitch to her voice when she spots a cat. Last night I let her out, thinking she’d stop at our sidewalk. Instead, she tore across the street. After she returned, I took time to enjoy a coral red sky.
Sunsets are change. Change can be beautiful. Is there anything in our lives that isn’t undergoing change?
Writing
Writers are told that the main character should undergo the greatest amount of change in the course of the story. I write novels because short stories are too short. My characters need to react and change at their own speed.
At a conference for children’s writers, a panelist declared that YA novels deal with coming of age, but Middle Grade books change the world. (I may have remembered wrong, but that’s what stuck with me.)
I kept world changing in mind as I wrote TY’S CHOICE. Ten-year-old Ty lives hidden beneath a future Dodge City, Kansas, where everyone has an implanted ID chip. Everyone, that is, except Ty’s people. The adults in Ty’s life are not looking for change. They’d rather remain hidden than take on that huge risk.
What kind of change do you want to see in the world?
What must happen to bring it about?
Kate Harrington 