Bittersweet

I love bittersweet chocolate. I think that is what the dark chocolate is called. bittersweet reminds me of life. When the sweetness comes it is usually along with the bitter.

Yesterday, my mom and I (along with my friend, Bert) spent the day in Greenville, SC, shopping and making a wine run (at Total Wines) and hitting the Home Goods store. We had a lovely early dinner and then along with this wonderful sweetness came the rest of the story: I put my mom on the plane taking her back to Florida. Hence, yesterday was bittersweet.

Life should not be all sweet or all bitter. When I write I try to keep this in mind. My characters are neither all good nor all bad, and and some events are bittersweet. When Georgiana come up with that sonata it will be sweet but based on a bitter event--her almost elopement and her brother's reaction.

When Elizabeth found the crushed chess piece it was bittersweet - he had loved her but left bitter.

When another incident happens you will know I used the bittersweet approach. You will recognize my penchant for mixing the two.

till tomorrow, for today I have my time all to myself. I can polish some chapters and hopefully this weekend I can return to reading others.

gayle