Oct. 13, 2019, 6:37 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
Why is good inspiration so difficult to capture in glass? I suppose the challenge also is part of the necessity, but I must master this for the muse.
Oct. 13, 2019, 6:31 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
Time spent on the seas is particularly calming in a way that riding a horse isn't.
Oct. 13, 2019, 6:07 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
About to take the Society of Explorer's test. Hopefully luck shall be with me!
Oct. 13, 2019, 5:37 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
When the shadows rise, it's easy to see the light in others and lose sight of the light in one's self... like stars, we see others against the black, but don't recognize our own glow. It isn't gone. It's there. But it takes a shift in perspective to recognize it again. I have helped others make that shift. It took someone else's kind and guiding hand to do the same for myself, and I won't forget the lesson.
Oct. 13, 2019, 4:54 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
I always love the first of the winter snows when they roll around! There's no better weather for curling up in front of a fire and writing letters or journals! And everything looks so pristine for the first few hours, like the world has been wrapped up in a bright, glittering white blanket. As if the world is saying slow down, hush, look it can all be made well again!
Of course, then the wagons and carriages go out and boots tend to turn the snow a bit gray or worse, but! It's still quite wonderful to behold and it inspires so much creativity in both the old and the young who go out! I adore seeing everyone's take on snowpeople and watching the snowball fights--from afar! While aeterna surely does not stain it still feels absolutely horrible on the skin when wet.
I am sure this feeling of winter bliss will last until about the third snowfall. Maybe the fourth! And then I shall be complaining about the cold like my dear husband already is!
Written By
Shae
Oct. 13, 2019, 4:05 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
Relationship Note on
Amari
Amari, I require an adventure, big or small, just something to break up all this staring at books, scrolls, parchment. Even if it's rescue some kittens, or a pygmy goat that got stuck in tree. Something. Please.
Oct. 13, 2019, 4:05 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
Returning to Arx has been nothing short of an incredibly strange experience for me. The city is not like I remembered, and everything moves so quickly.
Written By
Shae
Oct. 13, 2019, 4:03 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
Not much progress has been made in my recent forays into the Great Archive to search for information. I wonder if the Winter weather, is starting to get to me a touch. Or if it's because I have not been spending as much time as I usually do in the Kennels, training and tending to the hounds. Or spending time outdoors with my own hounds and animal friends. Perhaps I need something to distract myself with for a little bit, help give myself a break from all the research I have been doing lately.
Oct. 13, 2019, 3:36 p.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
Relationship Note on
Willow
When we speak I am reminded of the great differences between your leadership style and my cousins, not Lydia, but Nadia. It was a different world then and things have changed so much during that time.
In this changing landscape I am well pleased that you are still with us to keep us always moving forwards and looking out for us.
Oct. 13, 2019, 2:44 p.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
Drank too much by far. I have a bad habit of drinking too much when I'm uneasy, and around folk that intimidate me.
Said some things I regret, said other things I don't, but the saying of both is what makes me unhappy, as I'd not intended to put voice to any of those words. I let liquor loosen my tongue, and just like father dearest, let everything come sliding out all at once, the good, the bad.
It's not about the fact that it happened, it's about the fact that I didn't control myself, and I used the drink as an excuse. Still doing it, apparently. Just read what I already wrote right there at the top.
I don't like this posthumous father-daughter bonding exercise.
Oct. 13, 2019, 2:42 p.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
Much if the gray hair upon my head have distinct names. Lately Lord Eddard Clement has contributed the most of them.
Oct. 13, 2019, 2:41 p.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
Relationship Note on
Galatea
One of the lovely things about being a scholar is working with other people who are likely smarter than I am, sharing information and coming up with new theories and new avenues for research.
Oct. 13, 2019, 2:38 p.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
Relationship Note on
Karina
Her artwork is exquisite, and I like to stop by her shop on Thrax Row just to see her new works.
She takes commissions, too. Her portrait of me that I gifted to my husband Prince Galen was received with great excitement.
Oct. 13, 2019, 1:57 p.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
At or around the age of ten, I developed a fascination for the villains within the stories of which I often read. Since then, I have found the malignity of evil always more fascinating than the beneficence of good. Fictional or dramatic heroes have been to me ever since but pale and uninteresting shadows of their villainous counterparts.
Oct. 13, 2019, 12:25 p.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
For the first time I attended one of the Beards & Brews gatherings in the Ward of House Redrain. I went expecting little more than a bit of entertainment. Chuckles for sport, but an inevitable early departure.
What I found was a welcoming, vibrant group of people eager to share among themselves a playful bit of antics and respectful discourse about one of their favored paraphernalia. Baroness Acantha Clearlake and Lord Arik Halfshav were phenomenal hosts, stellar entertainers, and fostered a place of merriment and enthusiastic appreciation for facial ferrets.
In the end I didn't win the category I'd entered, but won a new category that was made for me. I'm not sure whether I should feel honored or pitied? Either way, it was amusing regardless of whether it was a verdict decided out of pity or respect. It was fun! I took home a prize that, I imagine Lord Arik hopes, will usher me along to developing an abundance of face foliage.
Congratulations to Lord Mirk Halfshav of course, for taking the win in the category of Best Beard. At least his is natural, so I feel he deserves the win over my own effort. Next time though, I will be better prepared.
I'm looking forward to the next opportunity to chase after that pleasure.
Oct. 13, 2019, 12:07 p.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
Relationship Note on
Jaenelle
Whenever she calls me that eight letter word, I find myself becoming so very cheerful and giddy. It may become one of my new favorite vices.
Oct. 13, 2019, 11:13 a.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
If when concocting bizzare poems, stories and lessons the people of Arvum could avoid making up things about the Gods, the Faith, its doctrines and its history, that would be a refreshing change of pace.
Oct. 13, 2019, 9:19 a.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
I'm glad I made sure the jails had enough blankets and the like on hand, ones that weren't damaged beyond use that is. We seem to fare better with frostbites as opposed to last year.
There was guard however who thought it was a good idea to consume alcohol to keep warm, beyond the obvious consequences it seems to also have numbed his sensitivity to the cold, perhaps because it makes you feel warm. Regardless he's been summarily written up and reprimanded beyond the punishment he made for himself. It probably wisened the like minded as well.
Oct. 13, 2019, 9:16 a.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
Relationship Note on
Estaban
Four years ago I was watching Lord Sebastian carve those amusing snow and ice sculptures for our wedding reception, getting to know Lord Vomus and teaching him a few dance steps, and packing up the rest of my belongings to have them moved into Saik Tower after our wedding in less than two weeks. I remember the sounds of the builders as they added the last minute details to the music room Esta had built as a present for me, the bustle of the servants making sure the tower was clean and fresh, and the fittings of my wedding dress. Those were happy times that have turned into a sweet poignant memory without the overwhelming sadness I felt the first two years.
Oct. 13, 2019, 9 a.m.(1/4/1012 AR)
Snow again. At least it did not interfere with the Kennex Sea Shell event aboard the Cirella. That was fun and the lively conversations made it well worth the effort of going there. But with winter here, it is time to get used to wearing heavier boots when out trudging around in the snow, dealing with avoiding skirt hems dragging along catching on the ice and picking up globs of snow and mud, and doing things like carrying more fashionable boots, slippers or dancing shoes to change in and out of when attending balls and events.