This is my first entry for The Lost Blog—a blog devoted to the publication of the The Lost Diary of Don Juan and to exploring this compelling mythic character as well as his Arts of Passion and Arts of Love.
I’m told that blogs must be done daily, but I’m not sure I can do anything daily—I’ve never been able to meditate every day, or exercise every day, or even remember to tell my wife that I love her every day—some of the best relationship advice that I got from a man who had been happily married for over sixty years. He also told me to do one nice thing every day for my wife—I definitely have not been able to do that every day, but I’ve tried. Every other day? Once a week?
This blog will be devoted to the adventure of publishing a book in the 21st century about a mythic character from the turn of the 16th. It’s also about why I wrote it—which was to discover how I could stay passionately and happily married to my wife for the rest of my life, and what I learned from Don Juan about endless passion and ultimately enduring passion.
In my next post, I will start to explain some of what I learned from Don Juan about fidelity. I’ll also talk about my trip to Sevilla with twenty journalists from ten countries to show them Don Juan’s Sevilla and my sojourn into the strange Don Quixote-like world of book promotion. Yesterday, I was photographed for the cover of the Santa Cruz weekly publication (The Good Times) while brandishing a sword. Learning how to sword fight in Spanish form was just one of the fun and exacting things I had to learn to write this novel.
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