beauty – Jill Domschot

…is now live.

There are a myriad of reasons why I dropped social media as quickly as I picked it up again. The number one reason is a lack of energy. I’m currently taking iron, so I’m sure I’ll be fine someday regarding that. I also haven’t been to the laundromat in weeks. I didn’t have anything else to do while waiting for my laundry to wash and dry but tap out words on my phone, hence the uptick of blogposts. But the laundromat is an expensive luxury, and I try to find other ways of doing laundry. I still remember the days when I washed clothes in my bathtub and hung them to dry. That was years ago–thankfully, I haven’t had to resort to such drastic measures recently.

Anyway, I digress. The entire point of updating my Roswell Journals is to give you a link to my new book. The cover is beautiful, hits straight to the heart like the Los Tigres song Golpes en el Corazón, but it doesn’t wound unless beauty itself is painful.

The cover hits two out of three of my trifecta of beauty: classic trucks, dragonflies, and accordions. In this series, amateur detective Hector Ruedas drives a 78 Chevy Silverado. Yes, I do live vicariously through my characters. I want his truck in my fantasy world, but in reality drive a practical Suburu. Otherwise, I play my beautiful accordions and have therefore already reached the fantasy 4th dimension. That, and I regularly speak to dragonflies. Oh, my, they are large creatures this year! It’s the height of their season, and they hum through the air on glistening wings. No, they don’t speak back. I’m not actually crazy. I simply believe it’s best to speak to the natural world in a friendly or awe-filled voice, like the people who for no reason at all say thank-you to AI. Except not because God imbued his fingerprint in nature. By contrast, AI is an extension of man, who can only create by pale imitation of his creator.

I linked to the song above, and Spotify has continued to unroll for me my favorite songs to play on the accordion. I’m in rapture! I’ve reached the 4th dimension! Amen and amen!

In conclusion, buy my book. Thank you.

God is my favorite health & beauty “guru”. This Psalm of David struck me yesterday:

Bless the LORD, my soul;

all my being, bless his holy name!

2
Bless the LORD, my soul;

and do not forget all his gifts,

3
Who pardons all your sins,

and heals all your ills,

4
Who redeems your life from the pit,

and crowns you with mercy and compassion,

5
Who fills your days with good things,

so your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Psalm 103:1-5, NAB

Notice the pattern, though. David praises God first, thanking him for his gifts and for forgiveness of sins. He also thanks God for his health. Then, he says that God fills his days with good things, and these are what renews his youth.

I love this. I’m honestly terrified of stagnation; I never want to be in a place in my life where that occurs. Why? It makes you old fast. If you sit in the same chair by the same window every day, both your mind and body will grow old and weary. In contrast to that, God fills our days with good things that will rejuvenate us.

Thank you, God, for new blessings in my days! I feel younger just thinking about it.