the High King Peter, Thirty Six Thousand Feet, and in Foresight

Hey y'all! I just returned from a very busy vacation, full of bogey boarding, family reunions, excitable dogs, loud card games, lots of good food, angsty cats and long plane rides. It was all very fun and chaotic. I am super pooped, because when I went to the beach yesterday I got all sunburned. It looks like someone smeared fushia lip gloss all over my face, except because I had my eyes open the space just above my eyes is all white so it looks even more translucent. I'm generally in a state, but I'm also slightly stir crazy because I spent the day either in a car, or in a plane.

It was really only a four day vacation. We left on Thursday. I spent most of the day reading the Chronicles of Narnia, which I pronounce to be underrated, and made the entire otherwise boring experience feel about twenty times more interesting. Since a lot of the Chronicles of Narnia involve traveling, I felt it well befit the occassion and certainly got me in a much more travelly mood.


(I think that now, whenever I read the Chronicles of Narnia, I'll also remember this vacation and what I was doing between long snuggles in my hotel bed charging through the books, and whenever I think of that vacation, I'll remember the Chronicles of Narnia. It's very interesting how, like fly paper, the words catch what you were thinking of when you read the book.)

The books are perfectly beautiful, from the style to the illustrations to the words to just the plot; probably, in fact my favorite series. I love Harry Potter and I love the Lunar Chronicles and Artemis Fowl but the Chronicles of Narnia make me happy. I've read bits and pieces of them, but never the entire series and even though I still have three books left in it to polish off before I'm done with this reread, just reading them altogether I'm realizing how it all fits together so wonderfully, so beautifully. I love the message, I love the characters, I love the way it's written and the world building and the entire thing is so cheerful and beautiful.

The writing style has been inspiring me a bit. Ever since I've been having trouble with depression, I can't write cheerful stuff. I can't write up cheerful things and I can't think happy thoughts, and I've been really letting the world get to me. Writing as an outlet is good, but lately it's been like whenever I start writing, I'll just end up writing really depressing things and then getting more depressed myself. I need to try and write happier stuff, because writing should make me happier, not sadder.

I'm trying to get back my enjoyment of writing; reading things really inspires me, and currently my big inspiration is the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm starting a new story, really for fun; I've got a bit of an idea where it's going but not much. I'm also considering other, bigger decisions and just generally thinking things over.