Runester

Sunday’s are usually very quiet, solemn days for me. I don’t know why, I haven’t been to church in months so it’s not a religious thing. But, if there’s a day for self-reflection and the contemplation of ones mortality and accumulated failures – then it’s a Sunday.

The thing that helped move me away from that depressive state, was that I needed to run some chores. I did them by myself, and it meant getting out of the house. From the trip to work, to use their printer to print off the receipt for my car registration renewal, to the shopping at BJ’s to pick up the cases of water, soda pop, etc. that we need for the next couple of weeks. I had things to do.

Furthermore, I listened to my podcasts while driving around and one in particular really appealed to me. It’s supposedly an erotic fiction podcast named Erotica a la Cart, and I say supposedly because though it does contain ‘adult’ content with some sexual scenes, the stories are as far from ‘porn’ as I guess a Ruben is from Hustler. Many of Philippa Ballantine’s stories focus on supernatural creatures like witches, vampires, and faeries. Her characters often have a sort of sensual delight in their life and their freedom to move through nature and be part of it. They revel. That’s something, right there, that probably makes them supernatural. When was the last time a normal human reveled?

Anyway, if you’d like to enjoy a really great story – read to you, no less – and you’re not afraid of a little adult content, then check out The Thirsty Earth. It’s hard to be in a funk while listening to such a story.