The time I spent with William gave me a new perspective on my work. I spoke with him at length about my Age. He had very many things to say, and a perspective on things that I value for how radically different it is from my own.

I was able to refine a great deal of clutter. William helped me realise that I should cut down on a lot of the things I would have thought essential. “After all” he said, “it isn’t supposed to be a place to live! Simply a place to visit and recharge.” Well said Will, I realise now on re-reading some of my older Journal entries (and the amazingly insightful comments left there) that my design had become bogged down with details, turning almost a complete 180 from my original intent.

I was too focused on the small, detailed brushstrokes, when I should have still been filling the canvas with colours and textures. I leapt in, anxious to create beauty as if I could simply open a container and pour it out, already made. I must create the foundation, plan, chart and map Luminesce from the bottom of the wine-dark seas to the very top of the sky. I’ve already begun anew. The planning process already filling me with an excitement and direction I hadn’t felt for a while.

The question now is, what to do with the book I have been so painstakingly ruining with my childish scribblings. My first thought was to burn it, lest someone stumble through this flawed mirror into a flawed Wonderland. However there is a small voice that decries such an action. Why, I cannot say. Burning the book and starting with a fresh one is only logical, neat and tidy. Somehow it tugs on me though.

I suppose for now, there is no harm in adding a fourth book to the stack. This one isn’t a One Word though.

I don’t know what to consider it.

Oh well, I refuse to dwell on the past. Instead of books I work in another medium for now. Thankyou Will, bringing me the tools I needed helped me realise what was next!