When the flower blossoms, the bee will come - Srikumar Rao

Big career steps take time but when you know, you know...

I have a headache. The kind of headache where you wake up and immediately trace your steps to see if perhaps you drank liquor, ate too much sugar or perhaps stayed up too late.

Let’s blame the non-alcoholic beer and not the cinnamon-raisin bagel with apricot cardamom jelly shall we?

Drinking is not a big thing with me. I am not sober but I don’t drink often. I need my mornings to be functional and it is basically a crap shoot unless I abstain.

And like you, I have a lot going on. I had a few promising grants submitted that are likely dead in the water, potential work pushed back until the fall — I think folks (understandably so) are periodically putting their toes in the economic waters to see what way we are headed. My brother said something that made me chuckle the other day, “let’s take the wind”. Reminds me of removing the friction and choosing a better path. This is the space I am holding at the moment.

Steve built a substantial bookcase for the library renovation and it is coming along nicely — stay tuned. Since the kids are grown now how many living rooms does one need. Spaces need to be serviceable and this is not one of those rooms that is ever bathed in sunlight. I — oops — I mean “we”, decided to lean into the moodiness and drench it in the creamiest shade of green. If you know me, you have seen the books stacked all over the house on every flat surface.

I am giddy. Soon, I too can film videos with my books authentically displayed behind me. Still deciding what level of bokeh to implement ha ha ha.

Now let me get to the point of it all.

If you remember the days of faces on milk cartons I was thinking of putting my latest book, Geospatial Data Science and the Art of Storytelling on the side of one. A confluence of delays blah blah blah emboldened me to ask for the publishing rights back so I can get it out into the world.

Editorial is going to be a bear but it is what it is.

I made a big decision and aside from putting on my big girl pants and rolling up my sleeves — this is going to be something else. I floated it out to the original publisher that was interested but the more I think about it — mainstream publishing doesn’t fit this moment.

Bonny is creating a publishing company.

This quote has always reminded me of my wandering artistic brain. And before you bug out I am not a Marxist, simply a curious mind that reads everything. Adam Smith anyone?

“…a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.” – Karl Marx, Capital, Vol.1

I give you, bee & architect publishing

Paid subscribers will be able to access the book as it moves through editorial.

Whenever I think of quotes about bees I think of Rodney Dangerfield.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife. — Rodney Dangerfield