“Yes, I do have a retirement plan. I plan on kayaking.”
-Author unknown
He wants to kayak around the entire lake, but is wise enough to not want to do it all in one day. In a couple of hours I hope to pick him up at the first rendezvous spot. I also hope to do a bit of swimming!
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“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
― May Sarton
I can feel fall in the air. The nights are getting shorter and there is a chill in the house come morning, that requires a cozy sweater or my flannel shirt. The garden always shifts a bit come August, and I feel myself letting go of some of my normal hovering, allowing it to head off to rest without much fuss.
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“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
what's for dinner
Instead of worrying about dinner today, I made a blackberry peach crisp with a cornmeal crumble. It smells delicious.
Here it is all pretty. The process wore me out, or rather the clean up did. But there is leftover soup in the fridge if he wants something else.
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“Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.” ― Lauren Oliver
It is the tiny things that I want to take note of.
“It starts with catching ourselves when we spin off in the same old ways. Usually we feel that there’s a large problem and we have to fix it. The instruction is to stop. Do something unfamiliar. Do anything besides rushing off in the same old direction, up to the same old tricks.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
hops along the fence line
The whole idea is to change the patterns and the routines and allow myself to gently slip into something with more meaning, something that might set off a spark in a new direction.