I’ve just about finished my latest painting, “Giant’s Head.” A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about climbing to the site in Castle Rock park. I might touch up the clinging hand one more time. Maybe the painter is falling off! I really was kind of scared on that rock.

I won’t be blogging much more till January. The holiday rush, etc. We repainted my office and I’m still rearranging and moving stuff.

In my free time, I’m revising the earlier chapters of Hylozoic. It’s incredible how much time it takes to do a revision. The rereading goes very slowly, as does the typing in of the changes I write on the printout. I have to think a lot, weighing the options.

And I still have to figure out the ending. A lot of this is subconscious. Like a chess computer playing out a very large number of possible endgames. My favorite way to work subconsciously is to get out and walk in the woods!

Meanwhile, all the best from California — have a Merry X and a Great 8!

And may all your eights be lazy!