On Monday night a storm rolled through town. It only took a half an hour for the rain and wind to hit and leave, but in that time a tornado passed by about fifteen miles south of where I live. It was one of four that hit Eau Claire county during that storm, but thankfully those tornados hit mostly unoccupied farmland.

While there was property damage, no one got hurt.

Besides a period of time where Crysta and I awkwardly stood by our bathroom so we could avoid windows, we were largely unaffected by the entire thing. It almost felt like a metaphor though for everything that's happening in our lives right now. Bursts of chaos that we know will pass, but we can't ignore them while they happen.

I don't want to make it sound like everything is doom and gloom. There are definitely some bad things happening (like my nonagenarian grandmother being in hospice, and y'know, *gestures at the American government*), but I still find joy in what I'm doing. There was a rainbow after the storm passed, and the metaphoric rainbows are happening too.

I don't know, when things get like this I get a bit fried. I've got so much writing to do right now and I'm weeks behind where I want to be right now on both Peregrine Lake scripts and the novel I'm working on. We'll be going up to our annual week at the cabin soon, and I'm hoping to get some stuff words down then. It's just hard to get work done when your brain is lit up like a Christmas tree.

On the upside, I'm super happy with how this month's episode of BS-Free Witchcraft turned out. It was supposed to be a quick and dirty episode on the Pagan Invasion, a 90s piece of Evangelical Christian satanic panic era propaganda, but I ended up researching way deeper than I intended. I'm really happy with the way it turned out, and it's one of the few episodes where I think the video version is genuinely a better experience than the audio only version.

I don't know. We're getting things done and moving forward. All storms eventually pass, and we will find the sunlight and pick up the wreckage afterwards. Find the rainbows where you can, and let's keep moving.