Such a lovely time of the year to participate in a Bout! The air is rapt with electric energy pulsing 
into the winds whilst walking, noting the whole of the world is caught up in the grip of Winter! The whole of my being has been given such a beautiful gift this past week — temperatures have sunk and dropped into the lowest of degrees! For a Florida girl, this is especially keen if your quite used to a singular Season of such fiery wrath, any measure of a difference is a day of celebration! Winter! Oh, my dear stars! How I long for thee to be fully ensconced into my life! I’m partial to four seasons, with a bucket of snow, a yard of snow angels, and the blissful joy of standing in the stillness of glistening snow! If I were in a blizzard wrought area, I think I’d tuck myself away from computers completely and read until my eyes could no longer blink the words into being!
Words, Pages, Context Consumed:
Its a bit difficult to explain in full detail, but rather than being snuggled into a book, I was vexed beyond proportion by technical errors which set my heart a-fluttering with spasms of anxiety! First it would appear, my email server/client was either suffering under a MAJOR crash and/or my computer was turnt into a mild vexation of wills, where it would ‘pick!’ a night of a Bout & a night to tweak, edit, and post an Author Guest Post! Sighs. I lamented a bit on this during Day 2, as quite honestly, it started on Day 2, ended on Day 3, and at this point I was just thankful that not only did I resolve the technical issues with my browser (a succession of cleaning, reloading, rebooting, and letting it ‘rest’),… I learnt in the early morning hours after a bit of sleep was snatched my email server had indeed crashed and a secondary site had been set up in its absence! Oy vie! Who saw that coming!? Needless, whilst I was blogging and updating my site in general (did you check out the lovely new post lovelies provided by Parajunkee Designs? I have these wicked sweet “Author Interview”, “Guest Post”, “Blog Tour” extra badges for the top of me posts now! Is Parajunkee wicked awesome, or what!?), I was carving out a bit of time and space to READ!
Yes, READ! :) I wanted to dig into one of my ChocLit books, and that is precisely what I did! :) I left the computer behind, cosied up into my reading nook’s comfy chair, and allowed the words on the page to cart me off into a place where romance could bloom!
Hours Spent:
Ironically or no, I haven’t a clue about how long I was reading only that the joy I received whilst doing so far outweighs the numbers on the clock!
To read is part of our breathing of stories, to allow the essence of the story we’re absorbing to fully become alighted in our spirit, our heart, our mind, and play out in our imaginations! To give ourselves the space to enter into the world the writer has left behind, offering a bit of a legacy through a palette of words; more colourful and vivid than a film reel at times, as our imaginations are quite heightened and are without bounds of discovery! We soak into the world at hand, curious about what will round the next corner of a page, eager to see the dialogue and the narrative shape the destiny of whom we are getting to know! Oh, the parlay of suspense! Such sweet reverie will be ours to have, if only we can carve out the space we need to read!
{SOURCE: Bout of Books Badge created by Jorie in Canva to give readers & visitors who come to her blog a way to know of its existence and therefore increasing the mystery & lore surrounding it!!}
Copyright © Jorie Loves A Story, 2014.
I do love the headers provided by Parajunkie!! I really didn’t get a lot of reading done today myself. I finished a long book last night and today slacked off!