Enquire Within

I feel good… so good! I have the golden ticket! The first one issued,
I’m informed...  a little piece of gold from this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival! I was mission-bound to have it, no matter the sleep deprivation—a plan to keep myself awake all night if need be, imbibing caffeine to boost my drooping eyelids, until The Age finally put out it’s Friday copy complete with MWF program, sometime tomorrow morning. But as serendipity and perhaps a small stroke of genius would have it, I ventured onto the MWF website this morning… EUREKA! The full digital program has been posted! And so I enquired within, exploring the categories by writer and then by date, until I fell upon it—The First Tuesday Book Club! It beckoned me in, and I dutifully followed its digital signposts, until I secured the little golden ticket to this year’s MWF episode. Each year so far I have failed in this quest. The time had clearly come to put a strategic plan in place. And it has yielded the desired results. I am in! Next step: Enquire Within—I will spend the remaining hours of the day scouring the rest of the program. What will it be? Keynotes & Big Ideas. The New Yorker. Australian Stories. Fiction & Poetry. Journalism & Creative Non-fiction. Rich pickings indeed. I cannot wait!