thanks everybody
That was such a fun reading tonight. I am out of here for bad-bachelorette vacation on an island with the bookslut for a week, and let me tell you I almost didn't even need the vacation because hearing Shari read and watching Ellis do an actual tea ceremony and then read was super calming. We got to experience that thing where a person has been crafting and zoned in to this particular frequency--whether it's a set of characters or the rhythm of the tea ceremony--for many years, training and re-drafting. The ensuing mastery is a pleasure to be around, you get to relax as a reader because the writer is doing her job very very well. Love that.
I'm out of here. Have fun--Emberly will blog for you from Berkeley which is magic even though it is not an island, technically. xxooElizabeth