It's okay to have ethics, and it's okay to share them in fiction, but the story itself has to come first.

Also, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate today. May your family table be a place of peace.

You would love these. Lots of vanilla, brown sugar, and freshly-ground cardamom.

What a pity!

We've had a good frost here too, but my garlic is already in and bedded down for the winter, so we're all set.

Here's another photo from Sir Walter Scott's library. He had a sizable number of books on magic, and it's possible to use the library for research with the right permissions. I have a future project in mind that would benefit from these books, so I'll hope to return to Abbotsford in due course.

It was wonderful to see you both!

And we need new ways of thinking and being, ones that enchant, inspire, and teach us that the world and its beings are wider far more precious than we have been taught to believe.

In contemporary parlance, they decolonize our minds from contemporary capitalist thinking and the imprint of major world religions and allow us to graft new ways of thinking and being onto the old.