I recently wrote about the upcoming writing retreat.
Unfortunately, it was canceled yesterday. (My friend has a minor-ish medical thing going on.)
He will be all right, but…he’s been told to not stray too far from an emergency room. A scheduled procedure in April should go as as planned, but in the event a large kidney stone decides to beat the doctor’s in a race, being deep in the woods of East Texas is not the place to be.
The good thing is this will soon be a thing of the past — and it’s not like Texas state parks are going anywhere.
Change of Plans
While I won’t be heading into the Piney Woods this weekend, I’m keeping my days off and turning it into a retreat at home.
I will get up early and write. If trails dry out, my wife and I will hike; if not, our canoe handles wet weather rather well. Instead of sitting around the campfire talking about writing and other things, I’ll work on songs on my new mandolin with my wife in the evenings.
The weekend will still be great…and sometime later this spring, summer, or maybe even autumn, my friend and I will spend a long weekend in the Piney Woods of East Texas for our sixth year of the writing retreat.
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