Notices by Mordecai Martin (mordecaimartin@rage.love), page 4

It’s really hard to be in the early stages or middle of really large projects, with no real end in sight. I should probably add something shorter and easier to my writing load, but what?

My infant child is sleeping in my arms and both our stomachs are rumbling loudly. Pretty funny stuff

@souvlaki Nope! I think all writers should try their hand at translating someone else!

@souvlaki self translation is a whole thing within literary translation that I haven’t even gotten to yet, good for you

Still banging on my “anyone can translate and it is beneficial to all writers to do so” drum if anyone wants to help me work out those craft thoughts sometime and have me aggressively pressure you to do Duolingo (but not as aggressively as Duolingo itself)

@bright_helpings thanks bud! It’s a wild time but I love it!

The cutest of my parenting responsibilities involves stopping my son’s startle reflex from waking him up. If he’s sleeping on my chest, as he is now, I do it by kissing his hands as they fly up to his face. It’s a very sweet game of whackamole

Translating a Ukrainian born Mexican Yiddish poet, wondering if his melancholy about living in a tropical country of sun while still missing home and autumn will be mine once I move to Mexico. Just Jewish stuff.

Worse ways to start the day than coffee and baby snuggles

Why are you, as the street outside my house while my baby is sleeping, so noisy?

@ljwrites we got a box of newborn toys that are all high contrast black and white, so that their eye sight can make them out. There’s a pair of mittens so that when they wave their hands in front of their face it “stimulates” them

Some days parenting a newborn is just making sure their hands don’t scare the crap out of them

Accidentally wrote something sexy

I’m in a MFA in creative writing. We have two tracks, poetry and prose. I’ve been in prose this whole time. When my child was born, I joked, “I’m switching to poetry, it’s the only reasonable response to this feeling.” And that was funny . . . But now I’m doing it

Not being able to soothe a crying baby is a bad feeling, but one I’m learning not to take personally

How is my child this stunningly beautiful? I’m glad you asked. It has large parts to do with how stunningly gorgeous I myself am

Yesterday was one of this wonderful days when you see your family and loved ones for what they really are, the snug holding shape of them that lets you rest and be yourself among them. So grateful to have this child with these people.

@nootch probably my relationship with my wife

A crying baby is very demoralizing

You can have a wife and child you love very much who love you and still be lonely, that’s something that can happen.