Jultember: like a first date...

since i was talking a few days ago about my people and their colorful language, i thought i should mention the two books (booklets, really) i purchased recently on the subjects of Obeah and Jumbee.

they were meant to serve as inspiration for a writing project of sorts that he has talked conned me into considering working on... maybe.  i should point out that said idea is not well-enough developed at this point to even be described as being in its infancy. it is not even in its gestation stage, or whatever comes before gestation.

at this point, it is more like a first date.

and we are not talking about one of those 'great chemistry ending with something that could result in (unintended) "gestation" of the biological kind' type of first dates. this is more like a 'meet in the park at lunchtime to grab a couple tacos from a food truck before hugging awkwardly and heading back to your respective places of work where you will spend the rest of the day pondering why your friends hate you enough to keep setting you up with these odd characters' type of first date.

so... uhm... yeh... i am (slowly) reading stuff—with an even longer list of sources i still need to track down—and ideas are (even-more-slowly) starting to contemplate possibly maybe forming somewhere in the back of my mind, so i may settle down to something that resembles actual writing any day now... maybe.