Oct 20.

10/20/2025 11:19. Correspondence 63

You find me after a long, listful day, eyes heavy, body sore, brain on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "A New England Nun," of which I just finished reading. 

A beautiful, slow, bittersweet story about finding what makes you content and letting go of long, obstructive promises. But I digress. 

I have been so distracted today by big dreams and silly wishes. It will always be funny to me how slumps can push us to do more and create more. Not even in an emotional way. I have been in a slump for the last little bit, but also been obsessed with this idea I have for a comedy skit (more of a comedy with like philosophical undertones). A part of my vision and drive is to learn the basics of Blender so I can make an animation rig and dip into the wacky world of computer animation. Imagine all the doors that could open. Oh, how I long for the time. In a similar vein, I have also had a strong drive to get better at the piano and music composition. Strange, isn't it? Positive creativity and motivation stemming from a negative and unmotivated mood. I repeat again, maybe I just live in daydreams and silly wishes. But I will work towards my passions nonetheless. 

Two other short things:

1. Can you guys believe the weather? I mean, I step outside and I feel cold. Who would have thought? I put one foot out the door of my stairwell and into the alley and grabbed my shoulders, and said "brrrrrrrr". What a magic moment it is, the first true chill of the season. It feels like a whole new world and a distant memory. Then it's back to 80 degrees by 3, and that chill is but a memory itself.

2. To those who read this bright and early, you may notice a myriad typos and weird spellings. I appolagies. My Grammarly is on the fritz, and so I have received no spelling aid on this night. You are getting my words unchanged and uncorrected, for better and much more likely, worse. I will troubleshoot and revisit this page and fix all those horrid typos. 

Till then, 

Calvin Landreth