It's scary to acknowledge how many hours I've spent producing the Corpus Christi issue of Kalender. And it would have taken far longer if I hadn't had the assistance of a computer genius! To think that when my mentor Jo visited and I hadn't any idea how I was going to put Kalender together, I was wondering whether I should ditch it to retain my sanity. Jo did suggest that I trim down the project workload in order to do fewer things well rather than rushing around making work like a whirlwind. She was right, though, in her conviction that Kalender was non-negotiable.
For one thing, I've flagged it up rather publicly. For another, I love doing it! When I had the initial idea I was excited at the thought of the publication as a limited-edition multiple that I would leave in random places for people to pick up if they were curious. But now I realise that it can be distributed more widely than my immediate locality – in virtual form anyway – by making it downloadable from the website, and that means it will potentially reach a much wider audience, which is great.
Preparing the images and text is, itself, 'making work' that can be developed in other ways, and I'm finding that further ideas are springing up all the time. The trick will be to record those ideas but not to try to develop them all right now.
After all, I've been rash enough to schedule four different dates to constitute one of my twelve festivals – The Midsummer Bonfires and Display of Relics – and the first Bon(e)fire for St John's Eve is coming up VERY soon …
