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| [ The Texas Bibliothek, Ready to Ship. Yes, it is big. Yes, I devour books like a ravenous owl. Yes, this is my process. I accumulated similar-sized working libraries in writing some of my other books, e.g., Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California (2002); The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (2009); and Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution (2014). ] |
File this post under Future Reminder to Take My Own Advice, and if some or all of these ideas also work for you, gentle reader, verily I say unto you: Wunderbar!
Late last September, having finally rearranged and set up my working library in my new office in Mexico City-- the work in question being a book on Far West Texas-- I had to pack it all back up again and ship it across the Atlantic. (Why? Well, that story would make an epic novel I'm not going to write).
Now that I've got my Texas books resettled on their second set of new shelves in less than six months, I'm ready to take on 2018! But whew, I've got biceps after this job for a Hercules. The thirty-eight boxes of books comprising what I now call the Texas Bibliothek-- I have landed in German-speaking Switzerland-- arrived in mid-January. And a couple weeks later, every tome and paperback and pamphlet and back-issue of Cenizo Journal is in place, and I can carry my bike over head! I could scoop up and toss dessicated Christmas trees, small donkeys and their Schmutzlis out windows, too, should I take a notion!... ... Continue reading this post over at my main blog, "Madam Mayo"
